Capital Art Print Fair Benefit Preview 

This is the first year of a special benefit preview party for the Capital Art Fair.  We are pleased that all proceeds of the opening night will benefit the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Research Center.  The library, with its extensive collections of original prints and other artwork, as well as rare books and manuscripts, is one of the great primary source research centers.  The fine print collection contains more than 14,000 items, with particular strengths in American twentieth century.  The collection was assembled by the late Rev. Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who served as curator and then emeritus curator for some three decades.  It features in-depth holdings of works by  notables such as Grace Albee, John Taylor Arms, Thomas Hart Benton, Werner Drewes, Isac Friedlander, Joseph Pennell, Prentiss Taylor and Lynd Ward.  Those attending the benefit opening will receive a Collecting to Teach catalogue from the Father Haller memorial exhibition (2009-2010).  The exhibition is also viewable online:  Collecting to Teach: The Extraordinary Legacy of Joseph A. Haller, S.J.

To learn more about the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Research Center, visit their website:
Georgetown University Library Special Collections Research Center

The Capital Art Fair is one of the oldest art fairs in the United States exhibiting in the same space in Rosslyn Virginia since 1980.  This year the fair will feature 25 art dealers from across the United States and Canada and is the only art fair in the Washington DC area where an extraordinary range of fine art will be available for colelctors, museums and the curious to see and purchase. 

Master works from America, Europe and Japan will be available along with an extrodonary group of cutting-edge contemporary artists.  In the past years extrodonary works of art have been purchased by collectors and the many fine museums in the Washington DC area.

Please join us for the Benefit Preview Party and support Georgetown University Library Special Collections Research Center.  Tickets purchased in advance are $30, at the door opening night $40.