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On view in the Fairchild Gallery:
Revealing the Light: Mezzotint Engravings at Georgetown University
March 31 – July 31, 2008

Carroll Parlor: Permanent exhibition of works from the Georgetown University Art Collection

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The Georgetown University Art Collection strives to make as much of its work available for public view as often as possible, through both permanent and changing exhibits.

The motivations for changing exhibits can arise from a number of sources. Some are in response to teaching and instructional requests from faculty; some commemorate events of significance to the University; some are in recognition of gifts and other acquisitions to the collection; and some reflect the interests of the curatorial staff.

Currently on view in the Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery, on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library, through July 31, 2008 is Revealing the Light: Mezzotint Engravings at Georgetown University featuring over thirty examples of the demanding printmaking process, ranging from the eighteenth century through the present day.

Selections from the permanent collection are on view in Carroll Parlor in Healy Hall. Click here for more information on Carroll Parlor.

Recent exhibits in the Fairchild Gallery include:

• Revealing the Light: Mezzotint Engravings at Georgetown University (March - July 2008)
• This Print is Your Print, This Print is My Print: A Student-Curated Selection of American 20th Century Prints from Georgetown Library (December 2007 - March 2008)
• Extraordinary Journeys: Portuguese Rare Books at Georgetown University, 1580 - 1725
  (September - December 2007)
• Shakespeare at Georgetown (May - September 2007)
• John DePol (1913 - 2004): A Memorial Exhibition (November 2006 - February 2007)
• Summertime Selections from Historic Harper's Weekly (June - September 2006)
• Audubon's Birds of America: Selections from the "Amsterdam Edition" (February - June 2006)
• Tilting at Windmills: Don Quixote at 400 (October 2005 - January 2006)
• Lynd Ward: A Centennial Appreciation (June - September 2005)
• The Professionalization of an American Woman Printmaker: The Early Career of Grace Albee, 1915 - 1934 (March - June 2005)
• John W. Winkler's Drawings for The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (December 2004 - March 2005)
• 20 Years of Prints for the Washington Print Club's 40th Anniversary (September - November 2004)
• Histories and Tragedies from the Boydell Shakespeare Folio (May - August 2004)
• Visual Arts of Japan (Febrary - May 2004)
• Masters in Mezzotint: Color Prints by S. Arlent Edwards (November 2003 - February 2004)
• Visual Arts of the Americas, Part 2: Canada and the United States (July - October 2003)
• Visual Arts of the Americas, Part 1: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States
  (May - July 2003)
  Journey to Abstraction: Jacob Kainen Prints 1939 - 1977 (January 2003 - May 2003)
• Religious Drawings by John Watson Davis (October 2002 - January 2003)
• Charles Quest: Visions in Copper and Wood (Summer - Fall 2002)
• Aline Fruhauf: The Face of Music II (Spring 2002)
• Visions of America (Winter 2001 - 2002)
• Vintage British Railway Posters (Fall 2001)
• Lynd Ward As Illustrator (Summer 2001)
• Ralph Fabri: American Visionary Printmaker (Winter - Spring 2001)
• PRINTMAKERS A - Z : Selections from Georgetown's Collections (Summer - Fall 2000)
• First Call: American Posters of World War One from the Collection of Roger N. Mohovich
  (November 1999 - February 2000)
• British Printmakers of the 1890's (August - October 1999)
• "In My Father's House..." Preludes to Easter: The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ
  (Spring 1999)
• Architecture in Fine Prints (December 1998 - February 1999)
• Harry Hopkins and the New Deal: As Seen by the Cartoonists (September - December 1998)
• Take Up The Sword of Justice: British Posters of World War One from the Roger N. Mohovich Collection (Winter 1998)
• A Printmaker's Journey: The Graphic Art of Jörg Schmeisser (October - December 1997)

Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery

Works loaned to other institutions:

Les Coulisses de l'Opéra pendant la représentation d'Aida (Backstage at the Opera) is on loan to the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon for their exhibition The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec (February - May 2008).

Archbishop John Carroll by Gilbert Stuart (1804) was in the exhibition Gilbert Stuart at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 2004 - January 2005; and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington March - July 2005.

A pistol belonging to Commodore Stephen Decatur is on extended loan to the U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Boston. Commodore Decatur was commanding officer of the Constitution in October and November of 1804. The pistol was taken from a foe during the Barbary Wars.

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