Nina Negri

Atelier 17 group shows 16

1. 1935
   Le groupe de l’Atelier 17

   Galerie Pierre, Paris, France · until May 25, 1935

   Notes and sources

   Hayter's preface for this exhibition, signed "H.," was located in Swedish translation in the journal Konstrevy (1935) by James Chadwick. It names 22 exhibiting artists and describes the plaster-relief method alongside paper prints.

   About the exhibiting artists

   The preface, signed "H." (Hayter), lists 22 exhibitors and was published in Swedish in Konstrevy (1935). A review in L'Intransigeant (May 26, 1935) singles out Brignoni, Vieillard, Vulliamy and Catherine Yarrow and names Dalí and Ernst as the group's two influences. Konstrevy gives Buckland Wright's first name as "Frank"; linked here to John Buckland-Wright.

   Sources

   Stanley William Hayter, letter to Julian Trevelyan, March 7, [1935], TREJ 16_19, Papers of Julian Otto Trevelyan, Trinity College, Cambridge University. In this letter, Hayter describes the show and lists the potential and confirmed exhibitors.

   H. [S. W. Hayter], "Le groupe de l'atelier 17," Konstrevy 11 (1935): 155–57.

   "Paris Notes," Axis 3 (July 1935): 28.
   https://monoskop.org/images/3/34/Axis_3_Jul_1935.pdf

   "L'Exposition de l'Atelier 17," La Bete Noir, 1 June 1935: 4.
   https://rapportgallica.bnf.fr/recherche?query=%28dc.identifier%20all%20%22bpt6k5569781h%22%29%20and%20%28gallica%20adj%20%22%22EXPOSITION%20DE%20L%27ATELIER%2017%22%22%29&aig=2&mb=5&lang=fr

   La Semaine à Paris, May 17, 1935, 46.

   Marguerite Jouve, "Expositions," L'Intransigeant (Paris), May 26, 1935, 4. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7947577

2. 1936
   Le groupe de l’Atelier 17 de Paris

   Kunstzaal De Gulden Roos, Maastricht, The Netherlands · May 17 to June 7, 1936

   Traveled to

   • Kunstzaal “My Home”, The Hague, The Netherlands · July 4 to July 25, 1936

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   Le Groupe de l'Atelier 17 de Paris. Exhibition catalogue. Maastricht: Kunstzaal "De Gulden Roos," 1936.

   "Tentoonstelling van gravures van Le Groupe de l'Atelier 17 de Paris" [advertisement], Advertentieblad voor Limburg (Maastricht), May 22, 1936.

3. 1937
   Výstava skupiny pařížských grafiků “Atelier 17”

   Spolek Výtvarných Umělců Mánes, Prague, Czechoslovakia · January to February 1937

   Notes and sources

   Thank you to Katarina Kyselica, Principal at KADS New York, who retrieved this catalogue from the library of the Prague National Gallery. The hosting venue, SVU Manes, was founded in 1887 as an artists association and is still active today.

   Sources

   Výstava skupiny pařížských grafiků "Atelier 17." Exhibition catalogue. Prague: Spolek výtvarných umělců Mánes, 1937.

4. 1937
   Atelier 17: Exposition de gravures et objets gravés (1936-37)

   Galerie aux Quatre Chemins, Paris, France · March 12 to March 31, 1937

   Notes and sources

   Thank you to Michele Greet for the Beaux-Arts citation.

   Sources

   Atelier 17: Exposition de gravures et objets gravés (1936–37). Invitation. Paris: Quatre Chemins, 1937. Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, TGA 200515/3/2/1/1–2.

   “L’Atelier 17,” Beaux-Arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, April 2, 1937, 6.

5. 1939
   VIIe Exposition de Gravures et Platres Gravés du Groupe de l’Atelier 17

   Galerie de Beaune, Paris, France · April 21 to May 5, 1939

   Notes and sources

   About the exhibiting artists

   Kolos-Vari is listed in the catalogue as "Sandor Kolos-Vari" in error; the exhibitor was Sigismond Kolos-Vari. Sandor (Alexandre) Kolozsváry was Sigismond's elder brother, also a printmaker, but he did not work at Atelier 17 (confirmed by Julia Cserba, October 2026). "Werner" is listed without a first name; linked here to Werner von Alvensleben.

   Sources

   VIIe Exposition de gravures et plâtres gravés du Groupe de l'Atelier 17. Preface by Lucho Vargas. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Galerie de Beaune, 1939.

   Charles Théophile, "Les Expositions: Gravures du Groupe de l'Atelier 17," Marianne, May 3, 1939, 15.

6. 1939
   Studio 17: Engravings, Etchings, Plaster Prints

   Guggenheim Jeune, London, United Kingdom · June 8 to June 23, 1939

   Notes and sources

   About the exhibiting artists

   Kolos-Vari is listed in the catalogue as "Sigismond Kolos Vari."

   Sources

   S. W. Hayter's Studio 17: Engravings, Etchings, Plaster Prints. Preface by Herbert Read. Exhibition catalogue. London: Guggenheim Jeune, 1939.

   Christina Weyl and James Chadwick, "United in Their Craft: The Stylistic Diversity of Atelier 17's Prewar Artists," in Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector; The Story of Guggenheim Jeune, 1938–1939, ed. Gražina Subelytė and Simon Grant (Venice: Marsilio Arte, 2026), 205–21.

7. 1944
   New Directions in Gravure: Hayter and Studio 17

   Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York · June 28 to October 8, 1944

   Traveled to

   • Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, Ohio · December 2 to December 16, 1944
   • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland · January 4 to January 25, 1945
   • St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota · February 4 to February 25, 1945
   • Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan · March 11 to April 1, 1945
   • Art Institute of Zanesville, Zanesville, Ohio · April 14 to May 5, 1945
   • San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California · May 29 to June 26, 1945
   • Fort Worth Art Association, Fort Worth, Texas · September 1 to September 25, 1945
   • Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · November 4 to November 25, 1945
   • Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington · January 14 to February 4, 1946
   • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts · February 18 to March 11, 1946
   • Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York · March 25 to April 15, 1946
   • Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York · May 18 to June 8, 1946
   • Lyceum y Lawn Tennis Club, Havana, Cuba · November 19 to November 25, 1946
   • Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago de Chile, Chile · April 23 to May 7, 1947
   • Galleria Viau, Buenos Aires, Argentina · August 28 to September 13, 1947

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   James Johnson Sweeney, "New Directions in Gravure: Hayter and Studio 17," Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 12, no. 1 (August 1944).

8. 1951
   Atelier 17

   Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York · September 24 to October 14, 1951

   Traveled to

   • Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan · January 1952
   • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota · February 5 to February 24, 1952
   • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland · March 10 to April 8, 1952

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   Atelier 17. Contributions by William Lieberman, Massey Trotter, Una Johnson, Ruthven Todd, and S. W. Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1951.

9. 1952
   St. W. Hayter – Grafisch Werk, Boekillustraties / Atelier 17

   Stedelijk Kunstsalon Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium · May 24 to June 11, 1952

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   St. W. Hayter: Grafisch werk, boekillustraties; Atelier 17. Introduction by John Trouillard. Exhibition catalogue. Antwerp: Stedelijk Kunstsalon, 1952.

10. 1953
    Quelques Graveurs Contemporains autour de l’Atelier 17

    Kunsthandel Martinet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · November 26 to December 23, 1953

    Traveled to

    • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium · January 9 to January 20, 1954
    • ‘t Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands · February 27 to March 27, 1954
    • Nordisk Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark · May 20, 1954
    • Galleria Numero Redazione, Florence, Italy · December 16, 1954 to January 5, 1955

    Notes and sources

    This show’s checklist changed over the various venues.

    Hayter also attempted to bring this show to Paris at the Musée de Luxembourg, but it was refused:
    https://www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/siv/rechercheconsultation/consultation/ir/consultationIR.action?consIr=&frontIr=&optionFullText=&fullText=&defaultResultPerPage=&irId=FRAN_IR_053971&formCaller=GENERALISTE&gotoArchivesNums=false&auSeinIR=false&details=true&page=&udId=c1vb03hgzj12--d6voacimgb8m

    Sources

    Exhibition poster, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/23/1.

11. 1956
    Atelier 17

    Galerie Colibri, Malmö, Sweden · March 22 to April 1, 1956

    Notes and sources

    This exhibition was organized by the Sturegalleriet, Stockholm. It is possible, but not confirmed, that it was part of the traveling exhibition started in 1953 at the Kunsthandel Martinet.

    Sources

    Exhibition pamphlet, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/22/1.

12. 1956
    [Unknown title]

    Galerie Espace, Haarlem, The Netherlands · [December] to December 23, 1956

    Notes and sources

    The show's opening date is unconfirmed, likely in early Decemer.

    Sources

    "Weerzien met het Atelier Hayter." Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, December 8, 1956, 3. Delpher, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague. https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMNHA03:179252059:mpeg21:a00056

13. 1967
    S. W. Hayter et l’Atelier 17

    Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium · February 18 to March 12, 1967

    Notes and sources

    About the exhibiting artists

    The catalogue lists Marcel Duchamp's Les deux Frères (no. 20) in the Paris 1927–1939 section, but there is as yet no evidence that Duchamp participated in Atelier 17 during the prewar period.

    Sources

    S. W. Hayter et l'Atelier 17 (Charleroi: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1967); exhibition invitation, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/202/1.

14. 1968
    Atelier 17, Paris

    Galerie 14, Aarhus, Denmark · August 23 to September 4, 1968

    Notes and sources

    No year is given on the exhibition pamphlet. 1968 is an estimate based on matching possible calendar years to the weekdays given on the pamphlet, the roster of exhibitors, and the dates of their prints.

    About the exhibiting artists

    "C. van Huiten" in the pamphlet is identified as Katrine Van Houten.

    Sources

    Exhibition pamphlet, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/192/1.

15. 1977
    Atelier 17: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition

    Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin · October 9 to December 4, 1977

    Traveled to

    • University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa · December 16, 1977 to February 26, 1978
    • The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York · March 18 to May 14, 1978
    • University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan · June 4 to July 30, 1978
    • Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois · August 20 to October 1, 1978

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Moser, Joann. Atelier 17: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition. Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1977.

16. 1981
    Atelier 17: 1927 Paris New-York 1950

    Galerie de Seine, Paris, France · October 22 to November 28, 1981

    Notes and sources

    About the exhibiting artists

    Pablo Picasso is included in the checklist (no. 87, "Combat," 1937, burin), but this print is not linked to Atelier 17.

    Sources

    Exhibition brochure, Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/112/1.