HIGHLIGHT SZNAJDERMAN COLLECTION IN NOVEMBER 2016, SCMA WAS PLEASED TO receive a generous gift of 89 works on paper from Marius and Suzanne Sznajderman. This collection includes prints, proofs and preparatory drawings related to the Pan American Graphic Arts project, known as AGPA. This project published prints by artists from primarily Pan-American countries including Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina and grew out of an initiative launched by the package and paper company Carton y Papel de Mexico in 1971. A printmaker himself, Marius Sznajderman fled his native France during World War 2, settling with his family in Venezuela. He describes this experience as “seminal in the development of my personal work.” Due to his training as a painter and printmaker at the school of fine arts in Caracas, and his close ties with the Venezuelan arts community, he still considers himself a Latin American artist despite having moved to the United States in 1949. His connections in Venezuela led to his coordination of the international editions of prints for AGPA from 1980 to 1986. His close friendships with the artists is evident in the warm personal dedications to him recorded on many of the works. In addition to his AGPA collection of prints, SCMA also received a more personal lithograph by Sznajderman himself titled “Elegy for my Shtetl,” which was printed in 1988. It includes a Yiddish poem written by his uncle, the well-known Yiddish journalist S.L. Shneiderman. The poem and print refer to the small Polish town that was the home of the artist’s grandparents. The work is a premonition of the Holocaust and is part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem in Israel. TOP: Norma Bessouet. Argentinian, born 1947. Selvaggia & Uccello, 1986. Lithograph printed in color on medium thick, moderately textured, cream- colored paper. Gift of Marius and Suzanne Sznajderman in memory of Bernard Barken Kaufman. ABOVE: Candido Bido, Dominican, 1936–2011. Encuentro, 1986. Screenprint in color on medium thick, slightly textured, white Fabriano paper. Gift of Marius and Suzanne Sznajderman in memory of Bernard Barken Kaufman. 53