PHILADELPHIA -- "Sam Maitin: A Life in Art" will be on display Feb. 10 through April 17 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.  Additional works will be concurrently shown at Steinhardt Hall, home of Penn Hillel.  

The Arthur Ross Gallery is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m.  Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

For more than 60 years, Sam Maitin literally made his mark across Penn and around the globe.  He was a social activist and an internationally acclaimed artist, well known for his color-saturated 3-dimensional constructs, silkscreen prints, paintings, drawings and sculpture, included in permanent collections in the United States and abroad.  

Maitin, who died Dec. 23, had been actively preparing new work for this long-planned exhibition.  

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Maitin earned a BFA in art history from Penn in 1951.  His fresh, vividly colored artwork adorns the walls of many campus buildings and is on display at the Library of Congress and National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery in London.  

"We offer this exhibition as a tribute to a life in art lived to the full. The show will go on as he would have wished," said Dilys Winegrad, Arthur Ross Gallery director

Additional information about the exhibition is available at 215-898-2083 or www.upenn.edu/ARG/.