Chronology of Atelier 17's Group Shows

Existing lists of Atelier 17’s group shows are incomplete. The following chronology establishes the fullest record known at the time of publication. There are likely more exhibitions to add to this list, especially in the years after 1960.

Only group shows, where multiple members of the studio exhibited, have been included. Records of Stanley William Hayter’s solo shows can be found in Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead’s The Prints of Stanley William Hayter (1992), pp. 392-394.

Initially, Atelier 17’s group shows were numbered from its years in Paris. Sequential counting ceased after the 14th exhibition at the Laurel Gallery (1949). There is one gap in the numbering—between the Willard Gallery (1945) and Laurel Gallery (1949)—where an exhibition is missing in the count. Unfortunately, a record for this exhibition has not yet been located.

Opening and closing dates have been given, where available.

‘*’ denotes exhibitions without known catalogues

’#’ denotes exhibitions that appear in the Black/Moorhead chronology, but have not been independently confirmed with catalogues or other archival sources

1934
Exhibition of Engravings and Etchings by Anthony Gross, S. W. Hayter, Joseph Hecht, Max Ernst, S. Brignoni, D. Husband, A. Szenes, J. Trevelyan, L. Vargas
Leicester Galleries, London, England, February 1934

1935
[Unknown title] *1
Galerie Pierre, Paris, France, ca. May 1935

1936
L’Atelier 17 *2
Galerie aux Quatre Chemins, Paris, France, March 10-25, 1936

Le groupe de l’Atelier 17 de Paris
Kunstzaal De Gulden Roos, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 17 to June 7, 1936

1937
Výstava skupiny pařížských grafiků “Atelier 17” *3
Spolek Výtvarných Umělců Mánes, Prague, Czechoslovakia, ca. January-February 1937

“Atelier 17:” Exposition de gravures et objects gravés (1936-37) #4
Galerie aux Quatre Chemins, Paris, France, March 12-31 1937

1939
VIIe Exposition de Gravures et Platres Gravés du Groupe de l’Atelier 17
Galerie de Beaune, Paris, France, April 21-May 5, 1939

Eighth Exhibition, “Studio 17:” Engravings, Etchings, Plaster Prints
Guggenheim Jeune, London, England, June 8-23, 1939

1944
New Directions in “Gravure:” Hayter and Studio 17 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, June 18 - October 8, 1944
The show traveled via the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Circulating Exhibitions to the following venues:5
Cincinnati Modern Art Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 2-16, 1944
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, January 4-25, 1945
St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 4-25, 19456
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, March 11-April 1, 1945
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, May 29-June 26, 19457
Fort Worth Art Association, Forth Worth, Texas, September 1-25, 1945
Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan November 4-25, 1945
Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, January 14-February 4, 1946.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, February 18-March 11, 1946
Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 25-April 15, 1946
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, May 18-June 8, 1946

Another version of New Directions in Gravure circulated to South America via the Inter-American Office. An itinerary has not yet been located. Venues included:
Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago de Chile, Chile, April 23-May 7 (approximate), 19478 
Viau Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 28-September 13, 19479

1945
Tenth Exhibition – Prints by 35 Members of Atelier 17 Group
Willard Gallery, New York, New York, May 15-June 2, 1945

1946
[Unknown title] *10
American Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California, [ca. February 10]-March 5, 1946

1947
Atelier 17 – New Etchings and Engravings by Members of the Group
The Leicester Galleries, London, England, March 1-31, 1947

1949
Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by Members of the Atelier 17 Group
Laurel Gallery, New York, New York, March 14-April 1, 1949

Atelier 17 *
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, July 10-August 12, 1949
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 10-March 5, 1950

[Unknown exhibition title and venue]11
October 1-24, [1949]

1951
Atelier 17
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York, September 24-October 14, 1951
Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan, January 195212
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 5-24, 1952
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, March 10-April 8, 1952

1952
St. W. Hayter – Grafisch Werk, Boekillustraties / Atelier 17
Stedelijk Kunstsalon Antwerp, The Netherlands, May 24-June 11, 1952

Atelier 17 *13
Peretz Johnnes Bookshop & Gallery, New York, New York, July 1-31, 1952

Printmakers from Atelier 17 *14
Highfield Gallery, Falmouth, Massachusetts, July 28-August 11, 1952

Recent Prints from Atelier 17 *15
Chapman Memorial Library Gallery, Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 10-November 3, 1952

1953
Quelques Graveurs Contemporains autour de l’Atelier 17
Kunsthandel Martinet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 26-December 23, 195316
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, January 9-20, 1954
Nordisk Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark, opened May 20, 195417
Galleria Numero Redazione, Florence, Italy, December 16, 1954-January 5, 1955
Note: this show’s checklist changed over the various venues. A version of it also went to venues in Rome and Rotterdam, but no additional information is known at this time.

Engravings from the Collection of Atelier 17, Selected by Lotte Jacobi *18
Lotte Jacobi Gallery, New York, New York, November 30-December 21, 1954

1955
Kunstnere tilknyttet Atelier 17
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway, December 9-31, 1955
Bergens Billedgalleri, Bergen, Norway, January-February, 195619
Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger Norway, March 1956

1956
Atelier 1720
Galerie Colibri, Malmö, Sweden, March 22-April 1, 1956

1959
Hayter and Atelier 17 #
Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1960
Atelier 17 – Intaglio Prints by S. W. Hayter and his Associates21
Associated American Artists, New York New York, October 10-29, 1960

1962
Hayter and Atelier 17
Associated American Artists, New York, New York, January 29-February 17, 1962

Original grafik fra Atelier 17, Paris
Erling Haghfelt Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 22-June 8, 1962

Hayter and Atelier 17, 1927-1962
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, June 15-July 14, 1962

Grafikk fra Atelier 17, Paris
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway, September 6-30, 1962

Atelier 1722
Associated American Artists, New York, New York, December 5-22, 1962

1963
Gravures de l’Atelier 1723
Galerie Maitre-Albert, Paris, France, Opened February 27, 1963

Atelier 17, Paris – Taidegrafiikkaa
Taidesalonki Strindberg Oy, Helsinki, Finland, April 6-20, 1963

S. W. Hayter e l’Atelier 17
Galleria de’ Foscherari, Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy, May 25-June 13, 1963

Nihonbashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan #

1964
Artists from Atelier 17
Editions Alecto, The Print Centre, London, England, April 14-May 23, 1964

1966
Atelier 17 sous la Présidence de S. W. Hayter24
Galerie Six Sicot, Lille, France, February 26-March 26, 1966

S. W. Hayter and Contemporaries of Atelier 17, Paris
Original Prints Gallery, San Francisco, California, November 25-December 25, 1966

1967
S. W. Hayter et l’Atelier 17
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium, February 18-March 12, 1967

1968
Cinque artisti dell’atelier 17
Calcografia Nazionale, Rome, September–October 1968

Atelier 17, Paris
Galerie 14, Aarhus, Denmark, August 23-September 4, [1968]25

Atelier 17 & S. W. Hayter26
Antalya Güzel Sanatlar Galerisinde, Antalya, Turkey, September 25-October 10, 1968

1969
Exposition Atelier “17” S .W. Hayter
Cyrk Galleries, Providence, Rhode Island, February 15-March 15, [1969]27

Atelier 17
The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel, December 1969
Memorial and Museum “Yad Lebanim,” Petah-Tiqva, Israel, January-February 1970
The Negev Museum, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March 1970

Atelier 17
Sala de Santa Catalina del Ateneo, Madrid, Spain, December 1969
Azuma Gallery, Osaka, Japan #
National Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey #

1970
Expone el Maestro Stanley W. Hayter y Artistas Que Frecuentan su Atelier 17 en Paris28
Museo de Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 1-August 29, 1970

Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England #

Carr House Gallery, Providence Rhode Island #

1971
S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17
Galerie Daberkow, Frankfurt, Germany, September 1-30, 1971

Free Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania #

Syningarsal Norraena Hussins, Reykjavik, Iceland #

1973
Atelier 17 Prints
Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia, May 16-June 11, 197329
The Western Australian Art Gallery, October 19-November 19, 197330

1976
Exposition Atelier “17” S. W. Hayter31
Galerie du Centre, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, November 29-December 24, 1976

1977
Atelier 17 – A 50th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition
Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, October 9-December 4, 1977
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, December 16, 1977-February 26, 1978
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York, March 18-May 14, 1978
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 4-July 30, 1978
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, August 20-October 1, 1978

Atelier 1732
College of San Mateo Gallery, San Mateo, California, January 17-February 17, 1977
Corridor Gallery, Redwood City, California, February 14-March 26, 1977
Foster City Museum Gallery, Foster City, California, April 1-April 30, 1977

1978
Hayter and the Atelier 17 – Works from the Dickson/Sweetman Collection
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, November 4-December 3, 1978

Obra gráfica contemporánea – Atelier 17
Museo Biblioteca Pape, Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, February 25-May 27, 1978

Atelier 1733
Visual Arts Gallery, Department of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, October 9-27, 1978

1980
Innovations in Intaglio – S. W. Hayter and the Atelier 17 “Exhibition organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art, traveling to the following venues:”
The Park School, Brooklandville, Maryland, September 9–October 7, 1980
Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, October 8–November 5, 1980
The Museum in the Mall, Columbia, Maryland, November 10–December 8, 1980
Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland, December 9, 1980–January 6, 1981
Saint John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, January 7–February 4, 1981
Community College of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, February 9–March 9, 1981
Arundel Center, Annapolis, Maryland, March 10–April 7, 1981
Landon School, Bethesda, Maryland, April 8–May 6, 1981
Caroline County Public Library, Denton, Maryland, May 11–June 8, 1981

1981
Atelier 17, Paris34
Galerie Götz, Stuttgart, Germany, March 6-May 9, 1981

Atelier 17 – New Directions35
Cedar Rapids Art Association, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, October 18, 1981-January 24, 198236
Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, October 24-November 15, 1981
Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa, April 12-May 23, 1982
Polk County Heritage Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, June 5-July 4, 1982
Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 25-August 22, 1982
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 11-October 10, 1982
Brunnier Gallery of Iowa State University at Ames, October 30-November 28, 1982
Art Center Inc., South Bend, Indiana, December 18-January 16, 1983
Art Gallery, SUNY, New Paltz, New York, February 5-March 6, 1983
Albright Art Museum, St. Joseph Missouri, March 26-April 24, 1983
College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14-June 12, 1983
Art Gallery, SUNY, Albany, New York, July 2-July 31, 1983
Tennessee Botanical Garden and Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, August 20-September 18, 1983

Atelier 17 – 1927 Paris New-York 1950
Galerie de Seine, Paris, France, October 22-November 28, 1981

Hayter et l’Atelier 17 – quinze ans d’activités
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen, France, October 23-December 31, 1981

1983
Atelier 17, Paris37
Århus Kunstbygning, Aarhus, Denmark, August 18-28, 1983

Il Luogo, Rome, Italy #

Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, New York #

1985
Maison de la Gravure au Marais, Paris, France #

1986
Atelier 17
Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York, October 25-November 22, 1986

1989
The Printmakers of Atelier 17
Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books, London, England

1990
Hayter e l’Atelier 17
Accademia nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy, May 11-July 1, 1990

1992
Some Atelier 17 Connections – Twentieth Century Master Prints (Paris, New York, London)
Bankside Gallery, London, England, August 13-September 6, 1992

Espacio color textura – estampas de las colecciones Atelier 17, Paris
Museo de Arte de Maracay, Venezuela, August-September, 1992

1993
Hayter et l’Atelier 17
Musée du dessin et de l’estampe, Gravelines, France

2005
A Poética do Traço – Gravuras do Atelier 17, 1927-1940
Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal, January 13-April 9, 2006

2006
The Other Side of the Mirror – Prints from S. W. Hayter’s Atelier 17
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, December 3, 2006-May 13, 2007

2008
Atelier 17 – New York
Susan Teller Gallery, New York, New York, October 24-November 29, 2008

2016
Innovation and Abstraction – Women Artists and Atelier 17
Pollock Krasner House & Study Center, East Hampton, New York, August 4-October 29, 2016
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 17-May 31, 2017

About Prints – The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17 #
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York, August 18–November 20, 2016

Workshop and Legacy – Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi #
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 6, 2016-March 26, 2017

2017
Cutting Edge – Modern Prints from Atelier 17 #
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, April 9-August 13, 2017

Undated exhibitions
Atelier 17, S. W. Hayter38

Resim ve Heykel Müzesi, Ankara, Turkey, October 21-31, [no year]

Notes

  1. Stanley William Hayter to Julian Trevelyan, March 7, April 23, and May 26, [1935], JOT 16_19, 16_11, 16_12, Papers of Julian Otto Trevelyan, Trinity College Library Cambridge [henceforth cited as PJOT]. ↩
  2. “L’Atelier 17,” Beaux-Arts: Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, April 2, 1937, 6. Thank you to Michele Greet for this citation. ↩
  3. Thank you to Katarina Kyselica, Principal at KADS New York, who retrieved this catalogue from the library of the Prague National Gallery. The hosting venue, SVU Manes, was founded in 1887 as an artists association and is still active today. ↩
  4. An invitation for this show can be found in Helen Phillips papers, Paris. ↩
  5. “New Directions in Gravure – Hayter Studio 17,” CE 11.1.86.2.1, Department of Circulating Exhibitions Records, The Museum of Modern Art Archives. ↩
  6. The St. Paul Gallery and School of Art became the Minnesota Museum of American Art in 1992. The institution closed in 2009. ↩
  7. The San Francisco Museum of Art is now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ↩
  8. Thank you to Álvaro Cárdenas Castro for sharing his research and press clippings about this show. ↩
  9. Thank you to Álvaro Cárdenas Castro for sharing his research and press clippings about this show. ↩
  10. This exhibition featured work by 13 studio members. For press coverage, see Arthur Millier, “Many Important Exhibits Opened Here This Week,” The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1946, 54; Arthur Millier, “‘Fantastic’ Art Launched in Three-Point Exhibitions,” The Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1946, 44. The American Contemporary Gallery, opened in 1943 by Barbara Byrnes and Clara Grossman, was a small exhibition venue located on Hollywood Boulevard that mostly showed art and experimental films by European avant-gardes. For more, see Rani Signh, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, ed. Rebecca Peabody et al. (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011), 7. ↩
  11. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate Archives, Papers of Stanley William Hayter [henceforth cited as Tate], 200510/3/205/1. There is no year written on this pamphlet, but the dating of the prints included suggests 1949. ↩
  12. Michigan State College is now Michigan State University. The exact dates of this show are not known. Press coverage appeared in “Art Students Visit Display,” Michigan State News, January 23, 1952, 3. ↩
  13. An invitation to the exhibition is located in The Grippe Collection, Allentown Art Museum [henceforth cited as GC/AAM]. ↩
  14. An exhibition pamphlet, without a checklist, is located in GC/AAM. The Highfield Gallery, located in the theater space at Highfield Hall, was a short-lived venture and active only in the early 1950s. The artist Esteban Vicente was its director and coordinated several loan shows from the Peridot Gallery in New York. Thank you to Meg Costello at the Museums on the Green/Falmouth Historical Society for alerting me to many articles about the gallery in the local newspaper, Falmouth Enterprise. ↩
  15. A postcard invitation to the show is located in GC/AAM. Milwaukee-Downer College merged with Lawrence College in 1964. ↩
  16. Exhibition poster, Tate, 200510/3/23/1. ↩
  17. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/203/1. ↩
  18. An exhibition announcement, Series XIII: Oversized Material, Oversize Box 3, Lotte Jacobi Papers, University of New Hampshire Library. ↩
  19. The Bergens Billedgalleri is now part of KODE Art Museums of Bergen. Dating for this show is based on correspondence with Knut Ormhaug, Head of Collections, KODE Art Museums of Bergen. ↩
  20. This exhibition was organized by the Sturegalleriet, Stockholm. It is possible, but not confirmed, that it was part of the traveling exhibition started in 1953 at the Kunsthandel Martinet. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/22/1. ↩
  21. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/28/1. ↩
  22. Exhibition preview invitation, Tate, 200510/3/188/1. ↩
  23. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/33/1. ↩
  24. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 2005010/3/43/1. ↩
  25. No year is given on the exhibition pamphlet (Tate, 200510/3/192/1). 1968 is an estimate based on matching possible calendar years to the weekdays given on the pamphlet, the roster of exhibitors, and the dates of their prints. ↩
  26. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 2005/10/3/54/1. ↩
  27. Exhibition poster, Tate, 200510/3/204/1. Year of exhibition is based on Black/Moorhead chronology. ↩
  28. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/72/1. ↩
  29. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200501/3/83/1. ↩
  30. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/84/1. ↩
  31. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/92/1. ↩
  32. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/99/1. ↩
  33. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/187/1. ↩
  34. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/114/1. ↩
  35. Exhibition catalogue, Tate, 200510/3/115/1. ↩
  36. The Cedar Rapids Art Association, this show’s organizing institution, became the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in 1989. Thank you to Katherine Kunau, Associate Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at CRMA, for her help documenting the show. ↩
  37. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/122/1. ↩
  38. Exhibition pamphlet, Tate, 200510/3/85/1. ↩