#Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection

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Staff Pick of the Week

This week I am sharing German Expressionist Prints: the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection: Milwaukee Art Museum, published by Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, and Hudson Hills Press, Inc., Manchester Vermont, 2003. This book was published to accompany a traveling exhibition of a selection of prints from the Specks Collection, which was on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2004.

This collection, which lives at the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the most significant collections of German Expressionist prints in the United States. This book features over 500 color reproductions of the works as well as essays, a catalogue of the prints, and artist bios. 

For artists and art students like myself, catalogues such as this one are incredible resources for broadening our visual vocabulary and offering inspiration and broader understanding of our place in art history. The artworks in these kinds of books may be thousands of miles away, stored in back rooms of museums or in private collections. Many of the works in books such as this one are not even accessible online. 

These books may be costly to acquire but many libraries, like UWM’s, have large collections of books like these that are free for you to check out and peruse. 

Lucky for us the more than 450 prints in the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection have their own gallery in the Milwaukee Art Museum where they are on continuous rotation. You and I are also able to see these works at the Herzfeld Photography, Print, and Drawing Study Center by appointment! 

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Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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