Title: (Jewish) Ritual (Hebrew, Kapparot) Artist: Jerome Kaplan Publisher: Tamarind Lithography Workshop Inc. Printer:Joseph Zirker Date: 1962 Media: Three Color Lithograph From Two Stones And One Zinc Plate Dimensions: 48.3 x 65.1 cm (sheet) This important piece is in a number of Museum collections. Jerome Kaplan (1920-1997) taught printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, for 40 years. His works are in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Gallery, Library of Congress, and Museum of Modern Art. He was closely connected with The Print Club for 40 years, and was awarded the Lessing J. Rosenwald Prize at the Philadelphia Printmakers Annual in 1951, Max Katzman Prize in 1956, and the Experts Choice in 1963. This Judaic drypoint etching (as reproduced in the Philadelphia Inquirer on February 6, 1966) of the Academy of Music is part of Kaplan’s “Twelve Philadelphia Views,” commissioned by The Print Club. Kaplan had a close relationship with the Print and Picture Collection and was a close friend of former curator Robert Looney. As part of The Artists of The Print Center, the exhibition cases inside the Print and Picture Collection have been filled with the works of more artists associated with The Print Center, including Cynthia Back, Morris Blackburn, Ed Colker, Lois M. Johnson, Jerome Kaplan, Jenny Lynn, and Ron Rumford.