b'and family programs, has done with Enchanted CircleAt the exhibitions opening celebration in Theater and Holyoke STEM Academy on page 17maySeptember 2018, Kurt spoke extemporaneously and you find it as inspiring as I do elegantly about this collection that he formed and Brown/Conway Post-Baccalaureate Curatorialloved, and it was one of the most amazing moments of Fellow Shanice Bailey 17 organized archival treasures:my career: seeing historically meaningful material come representing black subjects, images of black identityto life in this powerful way. I am forever grateful that and experience culled from our holdingsa lovely andKurt got to see his gift come into public view before he thoughtful installation. Just as lovely was seeing Shan- passed away last May, and that we had the opportunity ices curatorial voice and vision come into full flowe. Andto see this aspect of the collection through his eyes. Henriette Kets de Vries, in her newly expanded role asSadly, we lost another longtime supporter of both Cunningham Study Center manager and assistantthe museum in 2019, Mary Gordon Roberts 60, whose curator of prints, drawings and photographs, assembledtransformative gifts include the donation in 2018 of two No Mans Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI, whichimpressions of Rembrandts The Three Crosses as well offered a timely and distinctive lens on that experience.as George Bellows oil painting Pennsylvania Excavation A commemoration of the centennial of thein 2010. Marys generosity through the years embodied 3wars end, the show explored the changing perceptions of wartime from the perspective of the artists them-selves, many of whom were also soldiers, making it incredibly poignant.Adding to the intimacy of this particular exhi-bition is the fact that it drew primarily from a generous donation of prints from Gladys and Kurt Lang. The Langs were instrumental in helping us think through how best to bring their extensive collection of more than 1,400 prints to our community; ultimately it was decided that it would be most substantive to develop a series of thematic exhibitions that mine the many strengths of the collection, and the first of these was No Mans Land. This turned out to be the most personal area of the collection for Kurt, who spent his early childhood in Germany be-tween the two world wars and had vivid memories of the aftermath of the conflict and its impact on loved ones i -cluding his German veteran father. After his family came to the United States in the 1930s, Kurt ended up serving in the U.S. military during and after WWII, stationed back above:Henriette Kets deVries and Dr. Kurt Lang in the exhibition,in Germany, where he worked on denazification No Mans Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI'