La Salle University Art Museum

Highlights from the La Salle Art Museum’s Print Room

Started in 1966 as an informal study collection for La Salle’s students, by 1976 the University’s holdings had grown to such an extent that the University opened the collection to the general public as the La Salle Art Museum. Over the years, the Art Museum has assembled a wide range of prints to support the research and teaching interests of the university’s students and faculty. The show will include around twenty of the Museum’s most prized graphic works and will draw attention to the range and depth of this collection. Highlights include a counterproof by seventeenth-century landscape artist Claude Lorrain, a multi-color chalk manner engraving by eighteenth-century Louis Marin Bonnet , a lithograph by nineteenth-century French Symbolist Henri Martin and an etching by Mary Cassatt.

La Salle University Art Museum

The La Salle University Art Museum will present highlights of the museum's print collection during Philagrafika 2010.

The La Salle University Art Museum opened its doors in 1976 as a place for La Salle students, especially those majoring in art history, as well as for Philadelphia-area residents and the communities in the surrounding areas to experience art in an intimate setting.

Located on the lower level of Olney Hall, the University's main Arts and Sciences building, the Museum currently houses more than 5,000 objects. A permanent display of works from the fifteenth century to the present offers visitors a brief survey of Western art from the Renaissance to the present. Smaller collections of Japanese prints, Indian miniatures, pre-Colombian ceramics and African sculpture afford the opportunity to explore the arts of Asia, Africa and the Americas.

In addition to its permanent display of art, the Museum also holds around five special exhibitions per year. The Museum is free and open to the general public. During the academic year, the Museum's hours are Monday- Friday 10am-4pm and Sundays 2-4pm. To learn more about the Museum, please call us at 215-951-1221 or visit us on the web at www.lasalle.edu/museum.