Five Centuries of Works on Paper:

Since its establishment in 1956 with a gift of prints from Los Angeles collector Fred Grunwald, the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts has evolved into one of the nation’s foremost collections of works on paper. Over the decades, the Grunwald Center’s holdings have expanded through donations and acquisitions, and now comprise more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present. Housed at the Hammer Museum since 1994, the Grunwald Center fosters learning and discovery through its collection, which is regularly presented in exhibitions and made accessible in its dedicated study room. 

This exhibition marks the 70th anniversary of the Grunwald Center, celebrating its history through a selection of significant works that reflect the collection’s breadth and diversity. It will feature over 70 works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Utagawa Hiroshige, Winslow Homer, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Judy Fiskin, Robert Heinecken, James Welling, Catherine Opie, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Julie Mehretu, James Turrell, Alison Saar, and Kara Walker.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Image credit:  Edvard Munch, On the Waves of Love, 1896, Lithograph. Image: 12 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (31.1 x 41.9 cm), sheet: 13 7/8 x 18 3/8 in. (35.3 x 46.7 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. The Fred Grunwald Collection, 1965