Robert Mangold donates Divided Arc to FAPE’s Original Print Collection Robert Mangold Donates Print to Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies’ Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2010–The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), the leading non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the image abroad through American art, announced today that Robert HOME Mangold, the celebrated American minimalist artist, has donated Divided Arc, 2010, to its Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection. ABOUT Each year, an American artist contributes a print for display in U.S. embassies through the Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print PROJECTS Collection. Named for FAPE’s Founding Director, this is FAPE’s oldest program. The Original Print Collection is valued at over $6 EVENTS million, and since 1995, John Baldessari, Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Loretta Bennett, Vija Celmins, , Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, , Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Murray, Loretta Pettway, Robert Rauschenberg, James EDUCATION Rosenquist, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella have contributed editions.

NEWS Robert Mangold is the 18th artist to donate to the Collection. Born in State in 1937, Mangold has shown in hundreds MEMBERSHIP & of solo and group exhibitions since 1962. The artist is known for his minimalist style, which celebrates the simplicity and SUPPORT splendor of pure forms. Divided Arc is a that embodies the very essence of his work.

CONTACT According to Robert Mangold, “Printmaking exists for me as another way of expanding and clarifying an idea. This visual idea may eventually be worked on as a , or it may remain complete as a drawing or print. Some ideas seem best served on a sheet of paper, where the paper and image become one, as opposed to the more physical presence of a painting on a wall.”

FAPE’s Chairman Jo Carole Lauder said, “We are thrilled to include Robert Mangold’s work in our Lee Kimche McGrath Original SPONSOR Print Collection. His contributions to America’s rich artistic history are timeless and extraordinary. FAPE is delighted to donate this print for display in U.S. embassies all over the world.”

Mangold’s Divided Arc was unveiled at FAPE’s Annual Dinner at the U.S. Department of State on Monday, April 12, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

About Robert Mangold Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) received his B.F.A (1961) and M.F.A. (1963) from School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut.

Since his first solo exhibition in 1964, Mangold’s work has been the subject of more than 150 one-person shows, traveling exhibitions and retrospectives exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. In 1998, the Museum in Germany organized and exhibited Robert Mangold: Attic Series and Plane/Figure (1998-99) and awarded the artist the -Preis der Stadt Wiesbaden Award. On the occasion of that exhibition, the second portion of the catalogue raisonné of Mangold’s work was published; the first portion of the catalogue raisonné was published in conjunction with the 1982 Stedelijk Museum exhibition. In 2000, Phaidon Press published the first major monograph on Robert Mangold.

Robert Mangold has been included in multiple Documenta exhibitions in , Germany (1972, 1977, 1982), as well as the Whitney Biennial (1979, 1983, 1985, 2004). The artist’s work was also featured in the 1993 Venice Biennale.

Early in his career, Mangold received a National Endowment for the Visual Arts Fellowship (1967). In 1993, he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting from the Skowhegan School of Painting and . Mangold later became a trustee of Yale University Art Gallery (1999) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001). He was most recently elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 2004.

Robert Mangold’s work is part of 76 public collections around the world. The Pace Gallery has represented him since 1991, and during that time, the artist has been the subject of 11 solo exhibitions.

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