A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries

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First publication to map the exciting activity and legacy of Margaret Lowengrund and her space.

A Model Workshop explores the understudied impact of Margaret Lowengrund (1902-1957) - a visionary leader, organiser and critic within the mid-twentieth century printmaking community - and the vibrant New York print workshop/gallery she founded, "The Contemporaries".

The book expands histories of 1950s printmaking by showing Lowengrund and The Contemporaries to be a vital nexus in the mid-century print field. Bringing together several original texts with archival documents, the book maps the activities, networks and legacies of Lowengrund and The Contemporaries, placing them within a constellation of contexts including organised labour, feminisms and entrepreneurship, international exchange, and making the modern print.

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Lauren Rosenblum is a doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work situates 20th-century American printmaking in contexts including feminism, counterculture, and progressive labour relations.

Christina Weyl is an independent scholar and curator. She is the author of The Women of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York.