Shown is an image of an engraving and etching on paper, “Unstable Woman,” 1947, by Stanley William Hayter. The piece will be on loan to the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for a spring exhibition. Photo provided by Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

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FORT WAYNE — The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is presenting “Miró in New York, 1947: Miró, Hayter and Atelier 17,” an exhibition of prints by American and émigré artists working at Atelier 17, including Joan Miró, Stanley William Hayter, Yves Tanguy, Fred Becker, Gabor Peterdi and Minna Citron, among others. The exhibition will be on view April 22 through June 25.

Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miró made his first trip to the U.S. in 1947 after receiving a commission for a mural in the Gourmet Room at the very modern Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati. During his nine-month stay working in New York, he frequented Stanley William Hayter’s printmaking workshop, known as Atelier 17, and created a small group of experimental intaglio prints. This exhibition focuses on a moment in time: the confluence of Miró, Hayter’s Atelier 17, and the mix of artists who congregated there.

New York had become home to a host of immigrant artists since the 1930s and even more so as others fled Europe with the advance of Nazi Germany’s forces. Atelier 17 was a meeting place where exiled émigrés and young American artists created art and shared ideas. Working in an environment that fostered collaboration and innovation, the artists at Atelier 17 explored the use of unpremeditated (automatic) drawing, color and texture in engraving, screen printing, and relief etching techniques.

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art will host a curator’s tour of the exhibition at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, May 4. Museum curator Sachi Yanari-Rizzo will take participants on a gallery tour of the exhibit, offering a unique perspective on the artists and their work. The tour is included with museum admission and is open to the first 20 registrants with RSVP at fwmoa.org/rsvp.

General admission to see this exhibition at the museum is free for Fort Wayne Museum of Art members, $10 adults, $8 students and seniors 65 and older, and $25 for families. General admission is free for everyone from 5-8 p.m. Thursdays. Veterans, active military personnel and their families receive free general admission. Museum gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.

The exhibition is supported by the Edward D. and Ione Auer Foundation and is on loan from Dolan/Maxwell. Additional support has been provided by Steve and Audrey Riley, Linnéa C Bartling, Amanda and Charles Shepard, Margy and John Feighner, Kathy Rogers and Paul Sauerteig, Barbara and Stephen McMurray, and D. Randall Brown.

An image of an engraving and etching on paper by Joan Miró, 1947, which will be on display this spring at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Photo provided by Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Another paper etching and engraving by Joan Miró called “L’Antitête (The Antihead)”, 1947, that you will be able to see at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Photo provided by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

Shown is an image of “Nervous Lobster,” an etching and gaufrage on paper by Gabor Peterdi that will be part of a spring exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Photo provided by Fort Wayne Museum of Art.