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"ANTONIO FRASCONI 1952-1963" Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service Washington 25, D. C. SUGGESTED PRESS RELEASE: The recent work of one of America's leading printmakers, Antonio Frasconi, will be on display at from until , it was announced today. Eighty woodcuts and lithographs and twelve illustrated books have been selected from the survey of the last 11 years of Frasconi's work that was first shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art in November 1963. The exhibition is currently on a national tour under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Frasconi was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay, of Italian parents. His talents were recognized early, and in 1945 he came to the United States on a scholarship. The following year, the Brooklyn Museum held an exhi- bition of his work, his first in this country. He has had many since, including a traveling show organized by the Cleveland Art Museum and circulated by the Smithsonian in 1953-1955. The present exhibition brings us up to date with the considerable output of this master of the woodcut. In addition to making prints, Frasconi has also designed children's books, record covers, Christmas cards, calendars, and other items that appeal to his fertile imagination. In 1963 he won the U. S. Post Office Department's competition for the stamp commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences.
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service."Antonio Frasconi 1952-1963" Suggested Press Release,
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