A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries

2023Hardcover book8 1/4” x 10 1/4” 120 pages, 100 color platesHirmer Publishers and Print Center New York Edited by Lauren Rosenblum and Christina WeylEssays by Sarah Archer, Ellen Benjamin, Noriko Kuwahara, Jillian Russo, Rachel Vogel A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries is the first publication to explore the generative legacy of Lowengrund (1902–1957), a visionary artist-advocate and entrepreneur. In charting the institutional history of the hybrid print workshop-gallery she founded, The Contemporaries, and its later evolution into Pratt Graphic Art Center, A Model Workshop brings into focus the bustling printmaking scene of 1950s New York and reveals Lowengrund’s heretofore understudied impact on the trajectory of postwar printmaking. This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented at Print Center New York September 21 – December 23, 2023, curated by Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl.