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"Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17" explores a group of little-known etchings the Spanish artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) made with influential British printmaker Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, the New York outpost of Hayter's seminal printmaking studio in Paris. Both Miró and Hayter were key participants in the community of artists there, and this community ultimately formed the core of international movements in contemporary art from the 1930s to 1945. Leading up to the Nazi Occupation of France in 1940, many of these artists, including Hayter, fled to New York. Hayter established Atelier 17 here, and it ultimately became a creative, social, and artistic meeting place for the innovative and prolific American artists fueling the Abstract Expressionism movement and the dynamic European émigrés who hit the ground running. The atelier steadily became a technical and creative frontier in printmaking. The exhibition catalogue includes the wide breadth of experimental and collaborative work done at Atelier 17, with pieces by Fred Becker, Terry Haass, Gabor Peterdi, Anne Ryan, Yves Tanguy, Helen Phillips, Alice Trumbull-Mason, and others, all of whom worked in Atelier 17 alongside Hayter and Miró. An essay on Miró's stay in New York and the atmosphere of the Atelier in this time period by art historian Carla Esposito-Hayter, and an interview with Margo Dolan and Ron Rumford of Dolan/Maxwell and Academy Art Museum Curator Mehves Lelic accompany the works in the exhibition. Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17 was produced with support from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Talbot County Arts Council, with pieces from the Academy Art Museum's Permanent Collection and loans from Dolan/Maxwell, the Everson Museum of Natural History, Science and Art, Ingrid and Milton Rose, the Donnell and Dorothea Walker Collection of African American Art, and Richard Marks and Amy Haines.