SLAM: Prints, Drawings and Photographs

Salamanca, Spain, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1963, MoMA: Photography

Gift of the artist Size: 14 1/16 × 9 ½" (35.7 × 24.1 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed 1963

The Eclogues of Virgil, Aristide Maillol, 1926, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

Bound in full black morocco with decorative ceramic plaque inset on front cover Captivated by the books that William Morris (1834-96) was making at his Kelmscott Press in England and the success of French publisher Ambroise Vollard’s artist’s books, Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937) started his own private Cranach Press in Weimar, Germany, in 1913. One of its first goals was to turn Virgil’s Eclogues into the perfect book. Kessler spared little, commissioning woodcuts from Maillol and a new translation from Marc Lafargue. To add a Renaissance flavor, Kessler chose a fifteenth-century Venetian typeface by Nicolas Jenson and hired Morris’s colleague Emery Walker to supervise the cutting of new type. Kessler rhapsodized that the font “was winged with inner tension, and it gleamed with tender light.” Ever conscious of unity, Maillol designed his 43 woodcuts-here depicting Tityrus-to be equally important to the type, actually referring to his illustrations as “typography.” Size: 13 1/8 x 10 1/8in. (33.3 x 25.7cm) Medium: Woodcuts, letterpress; bound volume

East Berlin, Thomas F. Arndt, 1985, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Photography and New Media

train, single passenger in window Size: 12 1/8 x 18 ¼ in. (30.8 x 46.36 cm) (image) 15 15/16 x 19 13/16 in. (40.48 x 50.32 cm) (sheet) Medium: Gelatin silver print

Barrel-vaulted Arcade Rendered in Perspective, Francessco Battaglioli , 1700s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Drawings

Size: Sheet: 36 x 24.7 cm (14 3/16 x 9 ¾ in.); Image: 34.8 x 24 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and blue-grey wash, over graphite (ruled in places); framing lines in brown ink

View of the Tuileries, the Louvre and the Pont Neuf, Charles Melchior Descourtis, 1789, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Given in memory of William McCallin McKee Size: 398 x 618 mm (image/plate); 467 x 645 mm (sheet) Medium: Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on cream laid paper