MDC: EXHIBITION OF WORK BY DESIGNER-CRAFTSMEN
OF THE MIDWEST
Joslyn Museum of Art / Smithsonian Institution
[Smithsonian Institution: Traveling Exhibition Services]: MDC59: BIENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION [MIDWEST DESIGNER - CRAFTSMEN]. Omaha, NE and Rockford, MI: Joslyn Museum of Art and MIDWEST DESIGNER-CRAFTSMEN, 1959. First edition. Thick printed and stapled wrappers. 36 pp. 14 black-and-white illustrations. Contents published dos-a-dos [see images]. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Trace of shelf wear. A nearly fine copy. Rare.
5.75 x 7.25 staple-bound booklet with 36 pages and 14 black-and-white illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE [Feb 19 -March 29, 1959]. NOTE: This is a two-way catalog with only right-hand pages. One side contains statements by the Director and the Head of the Exhibitions Department of the Joslyn Museum of Art, the Chairman of Midwest Designer-Craftsmen, the Jurors of the show and a selection of the award-winning work. The other side contains a list of exhibitors and their works.
Designer-Craftsmen include 215 works by 101 entrants. The works selected for mention and depicted are by Mary Kretsinger, Anna Kang, Marie Woo, Jean T. O'Hara, John Glick, Mary Balzer Buskirk, Frederick Lauritzen, Alixandra and Warren Mackenzie and Robert Turner.