Werner Drewes

Atelier 17 group shows 12

1. 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).

2. 1945
   Tenth Exhibition: Prints by 35 Members of Atelier 17 Group

   Willard Gallery, New York, New York · May 15 to June 2, 1945

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   Tenth Exhibition: Prints by 35 Members of Atelier 17 Group. Texts by James Johnson Sweeney and Carl Zigrosser. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Willard Gallery, 1945. Anne Ryan papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

   Maude Riley, "Atelier 17," Art Digest, June 1945.

   "The Passing Shows," Art News 44 (1945): 6.

3. 1945
   Gravure in Revolution by Eighteen Artists of Today Associated with the Atelier 17

   The Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, Illinois · May 4 to June 1, 1945

   Notes and sources

   Thank you to Álvaro Cárdenas Castro for sharing the brochure for this show.

   Sources

   Gravure in Revolution by Eighteen Artists of Today Associated with the Atelier 17. Exhibition brochure. Chicago: The Cliff Dwellers, 1945.

4. 1947
   Atelier 17: New Etchings and Engravings by Members of the Group

   The Leicester Galleries, London, United Kingdom · March 1 to March 31, 1947

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   Catalogue of an Exhibition of New Etchings and Engravings by Members of Atelier 17 Group. Introduction by Herbert Read; technical note by S. W. Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. London: Leicester Galleries, 1947.

5. 1949
   Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by Members of the Atelier 17 Group

   Laurel Gallery, New York, New York · March 14 to April 1, 1949

   Notes and sources

   Sources

   Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by Members of the Atelier 17 Group. Texts by Herbert Read, James Johnson Sweeney, A. Hyatt Mayor, Carl Zigrosser, and Stanley William Hayter. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1949.

   "Prints by Members of Atelier 17," Art Digest 23 (March 1949): 20.

   [Review of Atelier 17 exhibition at Laurel Gallery], Art News 48 (March 1949).

6. 1949
   Stanley Hayter, Atelier 17 Group

   Art Gallery of the Atlanta Division, University of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia · October 1 to October 15, 1949

   Traveled to

   • Lila Lewis Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia · October 16 (circa) to October 24, 1949

   Notes and sources

   Gwyn Ferris, member of Atelier 17 and Atlanta native, selected 60 prints for this exhibition. The Lila Lewis Gallery additionally facilitated its display at the Art Gallery at the University of Georgia. Newspaper clippings indicate a two-week display at the Art Gallery, after which the selection was on view at the Lila Lewis Gallery.

   A type-set exhibition pamphlet in Stanley William Hayter's papers at Tate Archive matches many details provided in the press coverage. The pamphlet does not have a year and lists inclusive dates "October 1 to 24," which perhaps includes both venues in Atlanta.

   About the exhibiting artists

   The write-up in the Atlanta Constitution (September 30, 1949) mentions a checklist of 60 prints with many details matching the 60-object checklist in Tate Archive. This clipping, however, does mention Pierre Courtin and André Masson among exhibiting artists, and these two artists are not on the Tate Archive checklist.

   The Atlanta Journal review notes 57 works on exhibit.

   Sources

   "Stanley Hayter, Atelier 17 Group," October 1-24, [1949], Tate Archive, Papers of Stanley William Hayter, 200510/3/205/1.
   "Art Exhibit To Open at University Gallery Here," The Atlanta Constitution, September 30, 1949: 13; "57 Hayter Etchings On Exhibition Here," The Atlanta Journal, September 29, 1949: 32.

7. 1950
   [Unknown title]

   Galerie Lutz & Meyer, Stuttgart, Germany · January (?) 1950

   Traveled to

   • [Unknown venue], Berlin, Germany · February 1950

   Notes and sources

   The St. Louis Post-Dispatch clipping says: "A collection of new prints by Werner Drewes and others by members of Atelier 17, New York, recently closed at a gallery in Berlin, Germany, following an initial showing at Lutz & Meyer gallery, Stuttgart." The name of the Berlin gallery is still not known.

   Sources

   "A Joint Exhibition," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 19, 1950: 78.

8. 1950
   [Unknown title]

   Galleria del Secolo, Rome, Italy · May 18, 1950

   Notes and sources

   According to The Buffalo News, Letterio Calapai organized this exhibition at the request of the Galleria del Secolo. The show was projected to tour "some of Italy's leading cities and also go to Paris," though this cannot be substantiated.

   Sources

   "Exhibits in Rome," The Buffalo News, April 29, 1950: 24.

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. 1962
    Hayter and Atelier 17, 1927-1962

    Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom · June 15 to July 14, 1962

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Hayter and Atelier 17, 1927-1962 (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1962).

11. 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.

12. 1986
    Atelier 17

    Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York · October 25 to November 22, 1986

    Notes and sources

    Sources

    Parker, Barbara. Atelier 17. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Mary Ryan Gallery, 1986.