Harry Bertoia Printmaker

<p>The seventy-nine monotypes in this catalogue represent the principal styles and themes that emerged not only in Harry Bertoia's printmaking but in his sculpture as well. June Kompass Nelson author of <em>Harry Bertoia Sculptor </em> analyzes the graphic works and places them in the context of Bertoia's total oeuvre with particular regard to their relationship with his sculpture. A teacher of metalwork and printmaking at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Bloomfield Hills Michigan Bertoia began working in monotype in 1940-nearly a decade before his first attempts at sculpture-and continually returned to the medium until his death in 1978. Nelson's introduction biographical material and well-documented chronology contribute to the portrait of a Michigan artist of international repute who maintained his "regionalist sensibility."</p>