11 Pop Artists: The New Image / Drawings From the Betty Parsons Collections, N.Y. / New Directions in Printmaking

File consists of an exhibition pamphlet, correspondence, receipts, press release, comment booklet, catalogue list, newspaper articles, and photographs. Three exhibitions offered a substantial survey of the history of art since the war, largely out of New York, London, and Los Angeles, as it has manifested itself within the technical range of prints and drawings, and covering most of the major developments which have evolved in this period including abstract expressionism, pop art, op art, post-painterly abstraction, and hard-edge. An exhibition of thirty-one prints by the following British and American artists: Allan D’Arcangelo, Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Gerald Laing, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Phillips, Mel Ramos, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, John Wesley and Tom Wesselmann. The second exhibition consisted of sixty-three drawings collected by Betty Parsons, owner of one of the most adventurous galleries in New York, and reflective of the phenomenal post-war art activity in America. Included works by Peter Blake, Lee Bontecou, Willem Dekooning, Phillip Guston, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and many others. The final exhibition included over thirty artists using print techniques, many of whom are not expressly printmakers, but who are well known in the fields of pop, op, and hard-edge painting. Including works by Paul Jenkins, Roy Lichtenstein, Elaine Dekooning, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Marisol, and others. The exhibitions were shown at the UBC Fine Arts Gallery July 3 to August 18, 1967.