Dartmouth College Library received an extensive donation of art exhibition catalogues and monographs, from the library collection of Stephen Edlich.  Stephen Edlich was an artist, art dealer and entrepreneur who grew up in Greenwich Village during the 1940s and 1950s. His father, Dr. Theodore J. Edlich, Jr. was a Washington Square Park doctor who worked with many local artists, including Frank Kline. He and his wife, Virginia, became patrons of the artist Franz Kline, who was a family friend and also influenced Stephen’s own art work.

Stephen exhibited with Robert Motherwell and Richard Diebenkorn and his work was published in Three Generations of American Painting: Motherwell, Diebenkorn, Edlich, Gruenebaum Gallery, 1976 [ND212 .G78 1976].  His art work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, among other collections.  As an art dealer, he helped build his father’s art collection as well as helped develop one of the largest Matisse bronze collections for entrepreneur and art collector Irving Deal.

Stephen built his personal art library collection, with special focus on late twentieth century art, for his own inspiration and research.  The collection was donated in memory of Marsha & Stephen Edlich, by their son, Alexander R. Edlich ’96.  Currently on display in the Sherman Art Library, Miró cartones, 1959-196, [ND813.M5 A4 1965] is one of the many exceptional volumes from the Edlich gift.  This limited edition includes an original double page lithograph by the artist Joan Miro, printed by Fernand Mourlot, as well as 8 magnificent pochoir prints of Miro work, printed and hand colored by Daniel Jacomet.