‘OF HUMAN BONDAGE’ ETCHINGS AT HARNETT PRINT STUDY CENTER SEPT. 28

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RICHMOND, VA. — The Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center will present the exhibition, “Of Human Bondage,” on view September 28–February 16, featuring etchings by John Sloan illustrating W. Somerset Maugham’s novel.

Part of the American Ashcan School of realist artists in the early Twentieth Century, Sloan (1871–1951) is best known for his humanistic views of urban life. Drawn from the collection of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, this exhibition centers on the 1937 series of etchings he created as illustrations for the 1915 novel Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (English, born Paris, 1874–1965).

Organized by the University of Richmond Museums, the exhibition’s curators are Richard Waller, executive director, University Museums, and Dina Zhurba, MLA graduate student, University of Richmond, and Harnett 2007 Summer Research Fellow, University Museums.

The Harnett Print Study Center is in the George M. Modlin Center for the Arts. For general information, www.museums.richmond.edu or 804-289-8276.