Early 20th Century prints at the Whitworth

19 September - 13 December 2009

Printmakers in the United States in the first half of the 20th century produced some of the most exciting, original and defining images of modern American life.

Beginning with John Sloan and the Ashcan School of urban realism in the early 1900s, artists adopted a wide variety of print media to depict the American Scene, from the evocative cityscapes of Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis to romanticised views of the rural heartlands by Thomas Hart Benton and the young Jackson Pollock.