Legendary printmaker Pozzatti was born in Telluride, Colorado, and began studying art at the University of Colorado. However, World War II interrupted his education. During the war, he served under Gen. George Patton and was part of the Battle of the Bulge. After his military service, he returned to Colorado, where he earned his bachelor and master’s degrees.Pozzatti’s works hang in some of the best-known art collections in the United States, including the Art Institute of Chicago, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On an international level, his works have been exhibited at the Museum of Art in Sydney, Australia, the Puskin Museum in Moscow, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Toronto Museum of Art.He is a former recipient of a Fulbright grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a U.S. State Department Cultural Exchange Grant and two Ford grants, among others. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1981 and won the Indiana Governor’s Art Award that same year. His printmaking work also has been the subject of the book Rudy Pozzatti by Norman Geske and a public television documentary. During Pozzati’s student years at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he studied under Wendell Black, graduate student of the famous printmaking workshop established by Mauricio Lasansky at the University of Iowa. Printmaker and painter Rudy Pozzatti established one of the most outstanding print departments in the Midwest at Indiana University. He established Echo Press, an independent fine print workshop in Bloomington, Indiana, for visiting artists. Echo Press enjoyed sixteen fruitful years, producing 191 editions, in addition to 400 monotypes, by 47 artists. He attended the University of Colorado where he later taught in 1948. Pozzatti also taught at Yale, Ohio State University, and in Florence, Italy. His work is displayed at the Art Institute in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has been a recipient of every prestigious award including Fulbright, Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller.