Louis Bunce: Works on Paper

November 5, 2016 – January 29, 2017

Print Study Center

Louis Bunce (1907-1983) was a rising star in American art of the 1940s and 1950s, and his silkscreen prints from this time helped transform what had been a means for mass production advertising into a medium for limited edition fine art printmaking. Organized by professor emeritus and senior faculty curator Roger Hull, the exhibition opens Nov. 5, 2016, and continues through Jan. 29, 2017, in the Print Study Center. This exhibition highlights Bunce's works on paper and accomplishments as a printmaker. 


A Start to the Season of Bunce 

Louis Bunce: Works on Paper provides an introductory view into the works of this renowned Oregon artist and paves the way into the larger retrospective exhibition Louis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism. This exhibition will open January 21, 2017 in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and will continue through March 26, 2017.

| Learn More About Louis Bunce: Dialogue with Modernism |  


Financial Support

Financial support for the exhibition was provided by funds from the Maribeth Collins Art Exhibition Fund, and by general operating support grants from the City of Salem’s Transient Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission. Financial support for the book was provided exclusively by a major grant from The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.

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Gerald Robinson, "Portrait of Louis Bunce," 1955, gelatin silver print, collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, gift of Mutsumi and Gerald Robinson.

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