Ten Works x Ten Painters: A Portfolio of Screenprints Hartford, Connecticut: The Wadsworth Atheneum, 1964 Printed by Ives-Sillman Mohawk Superfine paper or Mylar Edition 500 Gift of Samuel Dorsky (Artists listed from top row to bottom row / left to right) Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, George Ortman, Roy Lichtenstein, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Poons, Stuart Davis

1964 was a year of hot, cold and cool. America unleashed its undeclared war on Vietnam, violence erupted against Civil Rights workers and Beatlemania raged among high school and college kids. Read More

Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists Skowhegan, Maine: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1971 Edition of 120 Printed by Shorewood-Bank Street Atelier Gift of Samuel Dorsky (Artists listed from top row to bottom row / left to right) Fairfield Porter, Philip Pearlstein, Richard Lindner, Philip Guston, Red Grooms, Jack Beal, Robert Andrew Parker, James Brooks

This most unusual "school," which was started by New York artists in 1946, is a nine-week summer residency program in rural Maine for emerging artists. Each participant has a personal studio but mingles for meals and programs with the other residents and the annually appointed faculty members and guest artists. Read More

American Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam New York, N.Y.: Artists & Writers Protest, Inc., 1967 Edition of 100 Gift of Samuel Dorsky  (Artists listed from left to right) Carol Summers, George Sugarman, Louise Nevelson, Ad Reinhardt, Allan D'Arcangelo, Mark DiSuvero, David Weinrib, Paul Burlin, Charles Hinman 

The Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War shook people out of their consumerist American dreams. Many artists felt that their mastery of image making should be put in the service of social and political change. Read More

World Print One: Folio Seventy Three San Francisco: World Print Council, 1973 Edition of 60 (Artists listed from top to bottom / left to right) Jerry Rudquist, Gorazd Sefran, John Crane Dobson, John Link, Alberto Biasi, Getulio Alviani, Antonio Frasconi, Valentin Oman, Manfred Mohr, Janez Bernik, Gerd Winner, Par Gunnar Thelander, Shin Kamiya, Kosuke Kimura, Takesada Matsutani, Adriana Maraz, Hodaka Yoshida, Michael Ware, Jennifer Dickson, James P. Welch

During the Cold War, prints provided an opportunity for artists on both sides of political barriers to share their work and ideas. Read More