Maier, Joann (American/Pittsburgh, 1936-2025), Synonymity, 1957, etching and aquatint on paper, signed, titled, dated and numbered 4-13 in pencil to the lower edge, image size 6 x 9 inches, in a black metal frame 10 x 13.5 inches. Another impression of this print won the Carnegie Purchase prize in the 1958 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annuel Exhibition, and is now in the permanent collection on The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Provenance: the estate of the artist. Born in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Joann Maier received her undergraduate degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now CMU) and a master's from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her early AbEx influences were Joan Mitchell and Grace Hartigan. In the late 1950s she turned her attention to printmaking, and landed in Stanley Hayter's famous Atelier 17 in the following decade. She started as a professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon in 1963 and stayed for over 4 decades. In 1969 she became the first woman to receive tenure in the school's history and one of the first women anywhere in western Pennsylvania to earn faculty tenure in a studio program. She constantly challenged herself by tinkering with new technologies to enhance her creative process, including early experimentations with laser etching and inkjet printing.

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