FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 27, 2003
The Museum of Texas Tech University proudly announces the opening of the exhibition Lynwood Kreneck, Printmaker on Sunday, March 9. The exhibition will be on view through August 17, 2003, in the Museum located at Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue (southeast corner).
TTU art professor Lynwood Kreneck was born in Kenedy, Texas. He finished High School in 1954, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1959. Afterwards, he worked in commercial art with a company in San Antonio. He returned to UT in Austin where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1964. That same year Kreneck accepted a teaching position with the Art Department at Texas Tech University. In addition to teaching printmaking, he has been the director of the program and exhibition Colorprint U.S.A. since its founding in 1969.
Known as "Dr. Waterbase," Kreneck has influenced his students in the art of printmaking for many years. This exhibition is a retrospective of the many aspects of his career. The exhibition Lynwood Kreneck, Printmaker is companion to a newly published book by the same title. The exhibition consists of 70 works.
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