30 rare prints make French impressions at gallery show | Penn Current

The etching by impressionist painter Edgar Degas pictures a little girl, her expression serious, her dress formal, her long hair pinned back with a bow. The extraordinarily rare artwork is one of 30 French master prints in a new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

Opening Saturday, Jan. 13, “Impressions in Ink: Prints from the Arthur Ross Collection” features works on paper by 11 of the most famous French impressionist and post-impressionist artists from the 19th and early 20th century.

“This is an extraordinary collection of master prints, and I am hoping people from all across the region will come to see them,” says Lynn Marsden-Atlass, executive director of the Arthur Ross Gallery and University curator. “I’m also hoping the exhibit is used in an interdisciplinary manner, incorporated across departments and schools at Penn.”