Originally located in Paris, the studio relocated to New York City during the years surrounding World War II.
The Atelier 17 studio was formed as an experimental workshop for the graphic arts in Paris, France in 1927 by Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988).
[5] Hayter ran the workshop with the expectation that all the artists working there would learn from each other and become proficient in all aspects of intaglio printing.
[2] Atelier 17 artists worked with established and experimental techniques including multi-color printing and textured patterns.
[7] Among the techniques used were aquatint, color offset printing, etching, the Grible Method, liftground, line engraving, and mezzotint.