by Stephen H. Goddard, curator of Prints and Drawings, Spencer Museum of Art.
This project would not have been possible without the research supported by grants from
the
Franklin D. Murphy Travel Fund at the University of Kansas. A number of colleagues in
Belgium and the United States have openly shared their knowledge and I thank them: John De
Bruycker; Brendan Burny; Roger Cardon; Marjorie Cohn of the Fogg Museum of Art; Micheline
Colin of the Archives de lĠart contemporain, Brussels; John Convent; Jan Dewilde of the
Stedelijke Musea Ieper; Luc and Adrienne Fontainas; Robert Hoozee and Moniek Nagels of the
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent; Ben Johnson of the British Museum, London; Wouter
Steenhaut of the Archief en Museum van de Socialistische Arbeidersbeweging, Ghent; Mme.
Van de Perre; and Nicole Walch of the Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, Brussels. Special
thanks
also to Willy Juwet, R. Elson, and Bruno Hicguet of the Ministerie van de Vlaamse
Gemeenschap, Department Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Cultuur (Ministry of the Flemish
Community, Department of Public Health and Culture) who generously sponsored the
international shipment of the works of art.
At the Spencer Museum of Art I especially thank Director Andrea Norris, for her
willingness to
support an exhibition of graphic art by a virtually unknown artist, and my interns, Bill
North, Jill
Vessely, Stacey Skold, and Sarah Crawford, for their help over the past few years. Thanks
also to
Susan Craig and the staff of the Murphy Library of Art and Architecture.
Warm appreciation goes to friends who have made my visits and research in Belgium go
smoothly: John De Bruycker, Lode De Clercq and Nadine Tasell, Robert and Hedwig Hoozee,
Milt Papatheofanis, and Maurice Tzwern. Finally, I am grateful to my family, Diane, Erica,
Emily, and Caitlin, for their patience during my periods of study abroad.