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Dr. William Eickhorst, professor emeritus of art, was studying at Parsons School of Design in New York in the early 1960s when a friend in his printmaking class gave him one of his pieces. That print became the first acquisition in what was to become a collection of more than 1,000 prints. Last fall, nearly six decades later, Dr. Eickhorst and his wife, Edith, donated that collection to Missouri Western. It will be housed in a newly created gallery on the second floor of Spratt Hall.<\/p>\n
Amanda Morrow, University curator, said the collection includes a wide variety of work mostly from 20th<\/sup>\u00a0and 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century artists. It will be stored on campus and pieces will be rotated in the gallery on a regular basis. She and Eric Fuson, artist-in-residence, designed the gallery and storage space.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are so lucky to have the collection for the students and the community,\u201d Morrow said. \u201cIt will be very educational.\u201d<\/p>\n The collection also includes a small library of monographs of artists, printmaking history and printmaking technique that will be available to students.<\/p>\n