Marisol to Warhol: Printmaking and Creative Collaboration opens March 15
The Delaware Art Museum presents “Marisol to Warhol: Printmaking and Creative Collaboration,” opening Saturday, March 15, 2025, and running through September 7, 2025. Admission for the exhibition, featured in the Fusco Gallery, is included in Museum admission.
The exhibition presents a who’s who of American artists working in the second half of the 20th century including Andy Warhol, Marisol Escobar, Jacob Lawrence, Lowell Nesbitt, Luis Cruz Azaceta, and Salvador Dalí. “Marisol to Warhol” showcases the creative collaboration of artists who experiment across media. The show brings together more than a dozen portfolios and suites from DelArt’s collection.
“Marisol to Warhol” is collaboratively curated by DelArt’s Curator of American Art Heather Campbell Coyle, Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial Fellow Dorothy Fisher, and Head Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow. The curators explain, “the period from the 1960s through the early 1990s witnessed an expansion of printmaking as artists promoted the accessibility of the medium. With increased availability came a chorus of creative voices showcasing diverse identities, stories, and styles.”
Joining the exhibition is a special loan from Art Bridges, William T. Williams’s painting “Walter’s Advice” from 1970. Produced the same year as a newly acquired print portfolio by Williams, the two will be displayed together to showcase an artist’s creative exploration across media and the collaborative aspect of printmaking.
Related Commission Painters Print
To complement the exhibition, DelArt commissioned three local artists—Oscar Eduardo de Paz, Cony Madariaga, and Alim Smith—to create prints celebrating the missions of three local organizations—Kuumba Academy, Latin American Community Center, and Route 9 Library & Innovation Center. “Painters Print” will feature these vibrant prints, on view in the Museum’s Orientation Hallway and locations throughout the greater Wilmington community.
Related Programming
Gallery Talks
Curators Fisher and Winslow will discuss specific print portfolios throughout the run of the exhibition in a series of gallery talks. On March 28 Winslow will discuss the revolutionary “10: Artist as Catalyst” and on June 26 gallery talk participants will learn about dancer Merce Cunningham’s collaborations with Pop artists of his day. On July 17, Fisher will guide visitors through Lowell Nesbitt’s use of NASA photography for his print portfolio.
DelArt Night: Print Fair
On April 17, the Museum will host a print fair, celebrating the artistry of printmakers from the region and providing the chance to build your own art collection.
University Night Lecture with Artist William T. Williams
In 1970, William T. Williams was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Delaware – the same year he created five artworks currently on view in “Marisol to Warhol: Printmaking and Creative Collaboration.” For the Museum’s May 1 University Night, we welcome Delaware’s collegiate communities to experience a keynote discussion between William T. Williams and art historian and independent curator Julie L. McGee.
This exhibition is made possible through support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Art Bridges, and the Johannes R. and Betty P. Krahmer American Art Exhibition Fund. This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.
IF YOU GO:
WHAT: “Marisol to Warhol: Printmaking and Creative Collaboration” Exhibition
WHEN: March 15, 2025, and running through September 7, 2025
WHERE: Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806
COST: Included with Museum Admission
INFO: delart.org
Media contact: Shannon Woodloe, Manager of Marketing and Digital Storytelling, at swoodle@delart.org or 302-351-8534.
Images, clockwise from top-left: Untitled, 1978. Marisol (1930–2016). Lithograph, sheet: 52 × 38 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Robert D. LeBeau, 1981. © 2025 Estate of Marisol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Diamonds, 1 of 4 (Ace), 1972. Salvador Dalí (1904–1989). Color lithograph, composition: 14 3/16 × 9 1/4 inches, sheet: 25 15/16 × 19 7/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Reese and Marilyn Palley, 1991. © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Gala Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Merce, from the Merce Cunningham Portfolio, 1974, published 1975. Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Screen print, composition: 27 3/16 × 18 7/8 inches, sheet: 30 × 20 1/16 inches. Delaware Art Museum, F. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2015. © 2025 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Moon Shot, 1969. Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993). Color lithograph on black paper, sheet: 22 × 29 1/2 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Reese and Marilyn Palley, 1991. © 2025 Lowell Nesbitt / VAGA for ARS, New York, NY. The 1920’s… The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots, from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Sprint of Independence, 1975. Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000). Seven color screen print, composition: 32 × 24 7/8 inches, sheet: 34 3/4 × 26 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Lorillard, a Division of Loew’s Theatres, Inc., 1975. © 2025 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.