About the artist:

At almost the same time that the Argentinian artist Mauricio Lasansky was carrying the gospel of intaglio printing to the University of Iowa, young Alfred Sessler, a protege of Robert von Neumann at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was bringing etching and lithography to Madison Wisconsin. A master of many graphic media, from wood engraving to block printing, Sessler set a tone of tolerance, humanism, and liberality in the studio and classroom that found an echo in the teaching and artmaking of such subsequent arrivals as Colescott, Meeker, Damer, and William Weege.