1969 Leonard Lehrer Formal Garden Etching

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Leonard Lehrer (1935-2018) "Formal Garden" etching on paper, pencil signed and numbered 29 of 250. Published by Associated American Artist … Read more Leonard Lehrer (1935-2018) "Formal Garden" etching on paper, pencil signed and numbered 29 of 250. Published by Associated American Artist in 1969.

Image size: 12 x 8.75 inches

He had forty-eight solo exhibitions in his lifetime and was included in multiple group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, Library of Congress, Gangsneung Art Cultural Center, Korea, Bibliothque Nationale de France, Sprengel Museum of Art, Germany and some one hundred other public collections across the US and the world. Lehrer attended Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Art and served as Department Chair for the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at San Antonio. At Arizona State University, he was Chair of the Art Department, Founding Director of the School of Art, Director of the Print Research Facility and Director of the Visual Arts Research Institute. During the 1990s, he served as Chair of the Department of Art & Art Professions at New York University. At Columbia College Chicago he became Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts in 2001. His last position in academia was at the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts as its Director of the Printmaking Convergence program.
In 2001 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant in Athens, Greece and a Fulbright Senior Scholar AIA grant in 2005. See less