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Lot's Wife

Ecce Homo  (1971) Intaglio etching   34x42

Leadership  (1970) from the suite, "The Seven Attributes"  Intaglio, 29x35

JAMES L. STEG

Selected Biography

James Steg was a painter, printmaker and sculptor working in a wide range of media.  Known for his innovative explorations of new techniques, especially in processes related to printmaking, his work is included in the permanent collections of more than sixty major museums and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution. He held an M.F.A. and a B.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa.

He was a member of the art faculty of the Newcomb College Art Department in Tulane University for more than thirty years.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Marguerite Oestreicher Gallery, New Orleans, La.; Hall - Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, La.;
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY; Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; Davenport Municipal Museum, Davenport, LA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Associated American Artists, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La.; New Orleans Museum of Art, Thirty Year Retrospective, New Orleans, LA; Cushing Gallery, Dallas, TX; Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; USIA Exhibition, Ankara, Turkey; University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS; Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS; Newcomb College/Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; University of South Florida, Coral Gables, FL; New Orleans Academy of Art, New Orleans, La.; World’s Fair Expo ’84, New Orleans, La.; New Orleans Museum of Art, Retrospective Exhibition, New Orleans, La.; Howard Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, La.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Library of Congress, Washington, DC; International Gravure, Paris, France; ISCABULA PHICS. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Print Annual, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Salute to France Exhibition of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Print Exchange, Rome, Italy; ISIA Far Eastern Traveling Exhibition of Prints; Fifth International Color Lithography Exhibition, Cleveland, OH; Print Festival, Salzburg, Austria; New Orleans Realist Artists, Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, La; Drawing Invitational, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI; University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La.; National Convention of Photo Scientists, New Orleans, LA; National Works on Paper, Bradley University, Peoria, IL; National Works on Paper, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; National Works on Paper, Del Mar College, Del Mar, CA; National Works on Paper, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Print Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; Contemporary Masters, Brown University, Providence, RI; Northwest Printmakers National, Seattle, WA; Society of American Graphic Artists, New York, NY; Prints 1963, Winthrop College, Winthrop, SC; Ten American Intaglio Printmakers, Hamburg, Germany; Eighth Lugano/International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland; USIA Graphic Arts, Moscow, USSR; American Art Today, World’s Fair, New York, NY; Block, Plate, Stone, Association of American Artists, New York, NY; New Dimensions in Printmaking, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Fiftieth Anniversary, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; American Print Exhibition Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden; Prints of Two Worlds, Philadelphia Museum of Art,  Philadelphia, PA and Villa Caproni, Rome, Italy; Contemporary American Prints, Fendrick Gallery,

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Washington, DC; Big Prints, State University of New York, Oswego, NY; American Prints, Rijksakademia van Beeldende Künsten, Amsterdam, Holland; Photography in Prints, Association of American Artists, New York, NY; New Approaches to Printmaking, Philadelphia, PA; Itag One, San Fernando State College, San Fernando, CA; Humor in Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY; Forty American Prints, U.S. Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; Humanism in Art, City College of New York, Brooklyn, NY; Prints: USA 1974, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Cushing Gallery, Dallas, TX; Pratt Graphics Center Gallery; New York, NY; Ball State National Drawing/Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; Southern Graphic Exchange Exhibition, Moscow, USSR; Hawaiian National Print Exhibition, Honolulu, HI; Philadelphia Print Club Traveling Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA; Oklahoma Art Center National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Oklahoma City, OK; Abstraction in Louisiana, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; West/80 and the Law, Smithsonian Institution/Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC;  Fifth Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia, KS; Self Portraits in Prints, Tahir Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Newcomb College/Tulane University; Works on Paper, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; On, Of, and About Paper, Columbia Museum of Art and Science, Columbia, SC; Wauhesha National Print and Drawing Exhibition, University of Wisconsin at Wauhesha; West/80 and the Law, Smithsonian Institution/Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC; Dulin National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Knoxville, TN; American Drawings II, Smithsonian Institution/Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC; Galveston Regional Drawing Exhibition, Galveston, TX; Ball State 27th  National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; American Contemporary Prints, The Hague, Amsterdam, “Art for Arts Sake,” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA;  Printmaking Invitational, University of New York at Brockport; Victims and Violations, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; Printmakers of the South, Southern Arts Federation, Atlanta, GA, GA; French Consulate, New Orleans, LA; Art Works, World’s Fair Expo ’84, New Orleans, LA;  Sixth Alabama Invitational/Works on Paper, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Eighteenth Annual Arkansas Art Center Exhibition, Little Rock, AR; Trenton State National Print Exhibition, Trenton, NJ; Tabriz Biennial, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR.

AWARDS

Printmaker Emeritus, Southern Graphic Arts Council, 1991; 1,000 Franc Award, Eighth Lugano/International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland; Louisiana Art Commission Award, Baton Rouge, LA; Charles Lea Prize, Philadelphia, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA; Northwest Printmakers Award, Seattle, WA; Syracuse State Fair Exhibition Award, Syracuse, NY; National Print Exhibition Award, Potsdam, NY; Arkansas Art Commission Award, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Philadelphia Color Print Society Award, Philadelphia, PA; Oklahoma  Art Center Award, Oklahoma City, OK; Wichita Art Association Award, Wichita, KS, Southeastern Printmakers Invitational Award, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Merit Prize, Oklahoma Art Center National Print and Drawing Exhibit, Oklahoma City, OK; Waukesha National Print and Drawing Exhibit Award, University of Wisconsin/Waukesha; Exhibition Award, 80/West and the Law, Smithsonian Institution/Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC; Exhibition Award, Sixth Alabama Invitational Works on Paper, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Exhibition Award, Eighteenth Annual Arkansas Art Center Exhibition, Little Rock, AR; National Copy Art Exhibition Award, Austin, TX.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Malmö Museum, Malmö, Sweden; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; Minnesota Museum of Art; Museum of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA; Seattle Museum, Seattle, WA; Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Dezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland, OH; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; Remington Rand Corporation; Pan-American Life Insurance Company, Houston, TX; Tampinex Corporation, Houston, TX; Rapada Corporation, Houston, TX. and in thirty university collections

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Painter and the Photographer, Van Deren Coke, Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press

Etching and Engraving Techniques, John Buckland-Wright.  New York: Dover Publishing, Inc.

Printmaking Today, Jules Hellar.  New York: rev. ed. Hold, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc.

Printmaking, Gabor Peterdi.  New York: rev. ed. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc.

The New Humanism: Art in a time of Change, Barry Schwartz.  New York: Praeger Publishing Company

The Complete New Techniques in Printmaking, John Ross and Clare Romano. New York: Free Press

Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Paul Cummings. New York: St. Martin’s Press

Who’s Who in America.  Marquis Publishers