January 22, 2016
“I:S 1a,” a screenprint made by the artist and educator Norman Ives in 1970. A member of the inaugural class of Yale’s graphic design program, Ives joined the School of Art faculty after graduating in 1952 and remained for more than two decades. In 1958 he and fellow Yale professor Sewell Sillman founded the art publishing company Ives-Sillman, Inc., which produced limited-edition prints for artists like Josef Albers and Walker Evans. In both his personal and professional work, Ives displayed a lifelong passion for letterforms; they formed the basis of many of his paintings and prints, including the one pictured here.
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