On the Doelensluis Bridge, Amsterdam
Line Etching, Edition: 100, Artist Proofs: 20, Printer’s Proofs: 2, Paper Size: 15″ x I7″, Image Size: 8.75″ x 11″, Paper: Hahnemuehle Bright White German Etching Paper, Ink: Charbonnel Universal Soft Black Ink, #55981, Printed by: K. Caraccio, K. Caraccio Printing Studio, NYC
What I love about this image are the bikes in the foreground. To me, bikes leaning against railings along every canal is the romantic image of Amsterdam. When I‘m looking at and drawing the details from the image I am transported there, and my mind becomes flooded with the history of the place and of all the people who stood there before me and looked over that same railing at the boats below and the buildings standing there.
DeAnn L. Prosia
DeAnn L. Prosia (b: 1963), an American printmaker, is best known for her detailed architectural line work. Born and raised in Chicago she’s lived in Kentucky, Connecticut, and Germany, where she had two solo shows. Currently she works and lives in Morristown, NJ. She is represented by The Old Print Shop. NYC, ebo Gallery, Millwood NY and fYREGALLERY, Braidwood, Australia where she had a solo show in November of 2023. Her work has been exhibited in over 300 shows nationally and internationally, winning over 90 awards: two of which were given her by Willie Cole and Richard Estes.
Prosia belongs to several art associations including the Allied Artists of American Audubon Artists, American Women Artists, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Association, and the Society of American Graphic Artists where she served as President from 2021-2023.
Public collections of Prosia’s work include The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY; New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY; International Ex Libris Centre, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium; Graphic Gallery Fund Collection, Varna, Bulgaria; Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, Gormly Gallery Collection, Notre Dame of Maryland University, MD; Rutgers University Archives, NJ; Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, NY; Newark Public Library, Special Collections, Newark, NJ; Arkansas State University Collection, Jonesboro, AR and The Douro Museum Printmaking Collection, Peso da Regua, Portugal.
Prosia is influenced by the printmakers of the early 1900s: John Taylor Arms, Ernest D. Roth (both who were also Presidents of SAGA), Martin Lewis and Samuel Chamberlain.
Prosia has always been fascinated by how society has historically built beautiful and interesting architecture to fill the needs of people and their everyday lives. She structurally creates images by building up layers of line and tone. Working on copper plates and with ferric chloride, she uses the cross hatching marks she is known for to create textures that are often mistaken for aquatint. A print this size takes up to 375 hours to complete. Website; www.DeAnnLProsia.com
Timothy Kragt, Chairman Print Selection Committee
Hobnail Lamp
Lithograph – Image Size 12-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches
Lithograph
Edition of 100
Artist Proofs: 10
Paper Size: 17-1/4″ x 14-1/2″
Paper: Somerset Velvet, Softwhite, 300gsm
Ink: 60% Trophies Brown, 40% Black
Printed by Maurice Sanchez dba Derriere L’Etoile Studios August 2022
Nick Patten, often described as an American Vermeer, grew up in Troy, New York, not far from Albany where he eventually completed a degree in Studio Art. As a young man, after college, he moved around the east coast from Nantucket Island to Vermont. Eventually he moved to New York City where he worked in the NY art world for a day job while painting in his spare time.
After New York, he lived on Cape Cod for 12 years painting and operating his own gallery. Then he moved to the Hudson Valley, and later to his current resident in Providence, RI, where he resides today. He has had numerous solo exhibitions including a solo museum show and has been awarded a number of prizes including three best in show awards throughout his career.
His paintings can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Public collections include the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the New York Public Library, the Print Club of Albany, and many other corporate and museum collections. What he states about this print, “Hobnail Lamp,” was based on a painting completed in 2009. “The painting was oil on panel, and what intrigued me about the image was the austere composition. Often a very simple composition like this can be the most challenging type to create drama and emotion.” This particular lamp is an antique that he found on Cape Cod and the milk glass hobnail lamp shade was of particular interest to him. The original source photo he took was done at night, which explains the darkness outside the window. In drawing on mylar to create this lithograph he worked around the highlighted shapes of the venetian blinds and the pull strings that hang at the ready. The subtle shadow of the lamp shade against the wall was a beautiful contrast to the linear nature of the lamp base.
Nick says it was a joy to return to lithography after an absence of over 20 years. It was further enhanced by reconnecting with the last printer he used, Maurice Sanchez of Derriere L’Etoile Studios in Long Island City. Maurice has worked with many icons of the American print world for decades and is considered one of the very best lithographers in the country today.
Timothy Kragt, Chairman Print Selection Committee.
From East Buchanan
Etching – Image Size 15-1/2 x 19 inches
Etching
Edition: 100
Artist Proofs: 10
Paper Size: 15-1/2″ x 19″
Paper: Hannemuhle Copperplate paper
Ink: Black
Printed by the artist
The artist states the following: The idea for the etching “From East Buchanan” was conceived on walks through the hilly neighborhood surrounding my home on the North Shore of Staten Island during the winter of 2020. Like so many others, I was living a ‘sheltered’ existence for most of the year due to the Covid19 pandemic. While not traveling much, I revisited some favorite places near my home. The print is based an actual view that I’ve known and admired for a long time and the ‘sequestering’ times gave me a reason and opportunity to explore its visual possibilities, both as a painting and a print. The edition was printed in my backyard printmaking studio in the winter of 2021.
The artist was born on Staten Island, New York and studied at the School of Visual Arts. He earned an MFA from Vermont College, with additional studies at the Art Students League and Blackburn Printmaking Shop.
Murphy’s work has appeared in over 100 group and solo exhibits around the world. Some of the public collections that include his work are: The British Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The New York Historical Society, The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The National Baseball Hall of Fame, The Denver Art Museum, Syracuse University and the Newark Public Library.
Murphy taught at Wagner College on Staten Island from 1984 to 2020. He served both as Gallery Director (2007-2020) and Chair of the Art Department (1998-2005). He has also taught at the Art Students League in New York City.
Dreams Over Brooklyn
Linoleum cut – Image Size 11-13/16 x 14-1/4 inches
Linoleum cut
Edition: 100
Artist Proofs: 10
Image Size: 11-13/16″ x 14-1/4″
Paper Size: 15″ x 19-1/8″
Paper: Zerkall Book Smooth Cream, 145 Gsm
Ink: Graphic Oil Base Block Print Black 2202A (Graphic Chemical & Ink Co.)
Printed by the artist on a Charles Brand Etching Press
Karen Whitman was born in New York City and grew up in its suburbs. She discovered etching and lithography at SUNY at Buffalo, where she graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Printmaking. Following college, Karen lived in Manhattan for 18 years before relocating to Bearsville, a hamlet within the artist colony of Woodstock, NY where in 1995, she discovered the linocut, which has been her professional focus ever since.
Karen also studied at The Art Students League of New York, The School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, and The Woodstock School of Art where she is currently an instructor. She is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and Allied Artists of America and has won numerous national awards for her prints, including seven medals of honor. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America and was also featured in American Artist Magazine and The Journal of The Print World.
Whitman’s prints can be found in the collections of The British Museum in London, The Institute of Fine Arts in Taipei, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ, The Portland Art Museum in OR, and the R. W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA, among others. New York City collections include The Museum of The City of New York, The New-York Historical Society, The New York Transit Museum and The New York Public Library. Selected prints can be viewed at www.karenwhitman.net.
Aunt Lison
Etching – Image Size 9.75 X 9.75 inches
Hugo Bastidas statement about the print:
A childhood friend sent me a photo of his step-aunt when she was a toddler posing with ten Zulu warriors. Having painted a number of works several years ago similar in content, I knew it would make for a wonderful image; innocence surrounded by the reality of the unknown. The photograph was made into a painting with a colored blue sky added to the original black and white still.
The artist received his undergraduate degree form Rutgers University and MFA from Hunter College. He has received a number of awards including a Robert Smithson Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, Pollack-Krasner Grant and a NJEA grant. He is represented by the Nohra Haime Gallery NYC where he has had 19 solo shows. He has attended residencies at ArtOmi, Can Serrat (Spain), CAMA (France) and others. He had solo shows at Gyeongnam Museum (Korea), Kunstdoc, Bonn Gallery and others. His work has been included in many group shows. He represented the USA at the Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador and the Sharjah Biennial in UAE. His work is in many private and public collections including El Museo de Barrio, Montclair Musuem and Zimmerli Art Museum. His art work has received 80 critical reviews in the most positive light. His work has been represented by Gallery Borea which included showings in Paris, Cologne and NYC.
He is a member of the National Academy of Design in NYC, elected member of the Century Association and a board member of the Artists Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor at New Jersey City University and lectures at the Art Students League.
2010s
L.A.
Lithograph – Image Size 11 X 11.25 inches
Peter Drake described ‘L.A.’ as a “possible but implausible moment in the skies above Los Angeles.” He was named Dean of Academic Affairs in 2010 and Provost of the New York Academy of Art in 2018. His art has been featured in 27 solo exhibitions at Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago; District & Co., Santo Domingo; Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in Koln among others. He has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions in the USA, Germany, China, and Italy. His work is in many museum collections including Whitney Museum of American Art, Arizona State University, Oakland County Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, LA County Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, Greenville County Museum, Carnegie Art Museum and many corporate and private collections. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute and many awards. In 2015, he completed a permanent public art commission for the MTA. He actively lectures and curates including the Figurative Diaspora, The Big Picture and Beautiful Beast. He has taught at Parsons, SVA and MICA. His website is peterdrakeartist.com
Federal Hall
Lithograph – Image Size 12 x 8 1/2 inches
Federal Hall National Memorial, 26 Wall Street, was built in 1842 at Wall and Broad Streets. Sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward created the bronze statue of George Washington in 1883, marking the approximate site of the George Washington’s April 30, 1789, inauguration. Architecture is the primary inspiration for my art and one of humankind’s greatest achievements. My hand-drawn lithograph took many months to complete, drawing from my photographs and on-site sketches. These photographs were taken over a 20-year period. It was my first stone lithograph in more than 30 years and the first time a statue appears prominently and the first time a person appears in one of my prints. 26 Wall Street is one of the best examples of classical architecture in Manhattan. I was also intrigued by the fact that not much has changed to the exterior of this building since John Frazee designed it 176 years ago.
The above from Martin Levine’s submission
Artist/Printmaker Martin Levine was born in New York City. He received a B.S. in Art Education from Buffalo State College and an MFA in Printmaking from the California College of Arts, Oakland, CA. His etchings and lithographs realistically depict cityscapes. He is a past president of the Society of American Graphic Artists and was elected to the National Academy of Design. He has juried exhibitions in the UK, Bulgaria, Poland, and Yugoslavia. He has received more than 120 national and international awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts in Printmaking. His work has been shown in Australia, Poland, Germany, England, Ireland, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Norway, Ireland, Colombia, Uruguay, Slovenia, Egypt, Vietnam, Venezuela, Brazil, China and Israel. His work is included in the Victoria and Albert Museum-London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Museu D’Art Contemporani D’Eivissa-Spain, Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, New York Historical Society, Carnegie Institute, Zimmerli Museum and the China Printmaking Museum- Shenzhen.
Shadows
Linocut and Serigraph – Image Size 13 X 10 1/2 inches
This is a three-color mixed media print made with two linocut blocks and one silkscreen. It was printed with oil-based inks on Arnheim 1618 Warm paper. The paper size is 16” x 13 ½.” The image size is 13” x 10 ½.” The edition consists of an edition of 100 with 10 artist’s proofs and 2 printers’ proofs. The 2 linoleum blocks and screen were prepared by Charles Yoder. The edition was printed by Charles Yoder and Dominick Rapone.
The artist has this to say about the print: Some years ago he found himself standing in the shadows of a pine forest in deep snow under a sparkling full moon. The simple beauty of what he saw was an epiphany. All that he had been looking for in painting was literally lying at his feet. Theories and isms no longer defined what he painted. The given provided all that was needed. The work became a meditation on that glimpse.
Charles Yoder was born in Germany in 1948 to two American army sergeants. He was educated in Europe and the States, finishing his formal education with a BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Over the years he has supported his art making habit with various jobs including director of Castelli Graphics and curator to Robert Rauschenberg. Presently he paints full time and teaches printmaking part time at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and NJCU in Jersey City, NJ.
He has shown his work nationally and internationally including solo shows at Texas A. & M University, Woodward Gallery, University of Maine, Contemporary International Museum of Art and others. His work has been shown in group shows such as at Monomouth Museum, Salmagundi Club, Mehu Gallery, Pera Museum in Instanbul, Guild Hall in East Hampton, Geisterschatten in Berlin, and many others. His work can be found in museums and many private collections. For more details, go to his website: www.charlesyoder.com
Morning Light II
Aquatint – Image Size 15 3/4 x 20 inches
Eric Goldberg made the plates and state proofs. Cindi Ettinger of Philadelphia printed the edition in March 2016 on Somerset, Satin 250 g paper using two copper (steel-faced) plates and Charbonnel inks. Goldberg said the etching and aquatint came “to enompass more than just that one morning in June … It became the light of morning … As a metaphor, I am amazed with a sense of renewal and awakening. As a part of the natural world it is the splendor of the morning light, which amazes me. Born in Bridgeport, Conn, and now of Philadelphia, Goldberg works mainly in etching and painting, depicting realistically rendered images. His prints and paintings are in many collections such as The Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, The Boston Athenaeum, The Boston Public Library, and The Newport Art Museum.
Boxcar Detail
Serigraph – Image Size 10 X 14 inches
I photographed this image in Irving, TX June 26, 2014. The camera used was a Nikon D800 with a 105mm f2.8 Nikkor lens. The exposure was 1/40th of a second at f10 and an ISO of 320. The pixel dimension was 7360 x 4912. After manipulating in Adobe Photoshop, I created 14 inkjet positives that were used to create 14 photo-stencil screens for printing. Colors were printed reductively in each screen. Upon completion, 35 color runs were counted.
All of the screen print was done by me with help from my primary assistant, my daughter Hannah, and my son Byron. It was printed in the print studio at Ursuline Academy of Dallas during July and August of 2014. The 35 color runs include: the verso white for the paper’s dimensional stability, repeated white to bury influencing colors, a matt varnish to seal the print, and the small area of gloss varnish to simulate the surface of the torn piece of orange reflective tape in the image. There are no other proofs.
Towers at Dusk
Woodcut – Image Size 8 X inches
The artist has this to say: “ I have always liked the rounded shapes of water towers next to the straight lines of building walls and windows, and the way the sky shapes appear around the buildings. Towers at Dusk shows towers in the late afternoon, with the sun going down. The image was carved on two Shina 3/8 inch plywood blocks and printed on Rives Heavyweight paper (175 grams.) It was proofed in my studio using Graphic Chemical inks on a Martech etching press. Kathy Caraccio printed the edition.”
Emily Trueblood was born in Alexandria, VA. An artist from an early age she discovered printmaking at Pratt Graphic Center when she moved to NYC, after attending Beloit College and the University of Madrid, and graduating with a BA from the University of Wisconsin. She soon developed a preference for making woodcuts and linocuts. She earned a MLS from Columbia University. For the past eighteen years, she has worked as a full time printmaker. Her work is in several public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the British Museum and others.
Evolos
Solar Etching – Image Size 11 X 14 inches
The artist, Isaac Abrams, was born in 1939 in New York City. During the 1960s was interested in psychedelics and was friends with Timothy Leary. He began painting as self-taught in 1965 and in the same year opened the first gallery in the world devoted to psychedelic art. For a time he lived on a ranch in California with noted rock stars. While in Europe, he became friends with the painters of the School of Fantastic Realism. He began making sculpture in 1970s and later did extensive work as an animation and video artist.
The artist has shown his work world wide and from New York to San Francisco. Currently he is exhibiting at the “Drawing Now” at the Caroussel de Louvre in Paris. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Cologne Museum, Centre Pampidou, Graham Gallery and others.
Isaac Abrams is mentioned in many publications including, Psychedelic Arts by Masters and Houston, History of Modern Art by Arnosen, New Directions in Modern Painting by Kelterberg, Avant-Garde in Modern Painting by Bazain, and others.
Window Shopping
Lithograph – Image Size 12 X 9 inches
Ann Chernow was born and brought up New York, and experienced much of the New York City art world of the l950s and l960s while studying at New York University. Her art instructors were Jules Olitski, Howard Conant, Hale Woodruff and Robert Kaupelis all of whom provided strong influences on her development as a professional artist.
Chernow earned a Masters Degree in college art teaching, earned recognition as a Connecticut Humanities Scholar for her teaching skills, while continuing to make art in many media with a focus on printmaking. She has created a defining body of work. This work is a genre that is recognized as unique as it consists of moments of suspended reality based on material from all aspects of American movies of the l930s and l940s, but is reinvented in her own vocabulary.
Chernow’s work is in the collections of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Museum of the City of New York, the Achenbach Foundation, Yale University Art Gallery, the Library of Congress and many others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous one person and group exhibitions.
Wave Cups
Lithograph – Image Size 13.25 X 13 inches
The artist, Jeannete Pasin Sloan, was born in 1946 in Chicago and received a BFA from Marymount College and in 1969 an MFA from the University of Chicago. She has produced numerous editions with Landfall Press since 1978. She has had solo exhibitions at Tatistcheff and Co. , Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Benedictine Universty, Thimmesh Gallery in Minnepolis, Saginaw Art Museum, Rosary College, Kirkland Fine Arts Center, Illinois State Museum, Northeastern Illinois University and many others. She has participated in many group exhibitions including, Prints by American Artists at Wichita Falls Museum, International Print Exposition at Portland Art Museum, 18th Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition at Emporia State University, University of Virginia and many others. Her works are in many institutions including the Albright-Knox Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Ball State University, Bank of America, Spencer Museum of Art, Canton Art Institute, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cornell University, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Western Electric and many others.
Antwerp Cranes
Etching. Drypoint and Aquatint
Sidney Hurwitz says he visited a row of disused cranes at the old Port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2007 while on his way to the Frans Masereel Print Center. The Worcester, Ma., native then produced an etching, drypoint and aquatint on Rives BFK with Graphic Chemical Bone Black ink pulled by Robert Townsend of Georgetown, Ma. A graduate of Brandeis, Hurwitz holds an MFA from Boston University and has earned a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship and a Massachusetts Artist Fellowship. He has had solo exhibitions at the University of New Hampshire Art Museum, Boston University, Old Print Shop, University of Utah, Mary Ryan Gallery, Martin Summers Gallery and the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, Krakow (Poland) National Museum, Honolulu Art Museum, Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Worcester Art Museum, Philadelphia Free Museum and the Japan International Bank.
2000s
Rooftops with Winter Birch
Color Intaglio
Linda Adato , a native of England, graduated from Hornsey College of Art in Hornsey, UK, before immigrating to the United States where she earned a BA and an MA from UCLA. She says she “was interested in the geometry of the shadows contrasting with the softness and rhythm of the trees” when she used two copper plates “and used the techniques of line, aquatint and soft ground” to produce Rooftops with Winter Birch. She inked the plates “a la poupee” (applying and wiping colors) while printing the edition of 160 with 10 artist prints in her studio using Rives BFK printmaking paper. She has exhibited her prints throughout the United States and beyond and has works in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation-San Francisco, The British Museum, DeCordova Museum, Duxbury Art Museu, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, New York Public Library and others. She has exhibited at The Old Print Shop, Boston Printmakers Guild and the Bradbury Gallery. She was a past president of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
Catskill Sunset
Woodcut — image size 12 X 12 inches
Carol Summers was born in 1925 in Kingston and grew up in Woodstock, NY. He traveled extensively in the 1930s, joined the Marine Corps and became a navigator and bombardier. He graduated from Bard College in 1951, studied at the Art Student’s League and spent 20 years in Manhattan making woodcuts and raising a family before moving to California and pursuing his interest in East Indian textiles. Regarding “Catskill Sunset,” he said, “This woodcut is… sort of an anatomical comment on our Mother Earth, who has a life just as we humans do, with insides and outsides and bodily fluids, but has a life cycle somewhat longer.” He received a Fulbright Grant, Tiffany Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. He had exhibitions in Woodstock, Toledo, Manhattan and San Francisco. He has works in the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum and many others. He died in 2016.
Labyrinth Valley
An Etching of 8 x 6 inches
Artists Comments– Labyrinth Valley was engraved on a copper plate that measures 8 inches by 6 inches. It depicts four imaginary labyrinths within four imaginary valleys. The valleys are also labyrinthine in character, but they appear to have been constructed by natural forces. Who built these things? What’s inside? Everybody loves a mystery and labyrinths are mysterious. If you’re outside, you wonder what could be inside. If you’re inside, you wonder how to get back outside. You wonder what’s around the next corner, and the next, and so on. Someday, I’d like to hear that someone looked at this engraving and discovered within it an answer to a problem. Could it be an erosion abatement project, a way to preserve geological formations, a military fortification? Or an amusement? Evan Lindquist has prepared a DVD illustrating the design and making of the print “Labyrinth Valley” and a copy of that DVD is included with the prints distributed to members.
Passages
Aquatint – Image Size 9.25 X 9 inches
William Behnken of Manhattan was born in 1943 and has works in many museums including the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum and Brooklyn Museum. His art emphasizes the remarkable contrast of light and darkness in his images of the city and stunning still-life scenes such as the one shown in “Passages,” an aquatint printed by longtime PCA member Kathleen Caraccio with 150 prints and 11 artist’s proofs from a steel-faced plate. This image was selected to be placed in the New York Public Library Print Collection.
In the Moment
Mezzotint – Image Size 8.25 X 10.75 inches
“In the Moment” was printed by Art Werger. Using an 8 1/2″ by 11″ copper plate, Werger hand rocked and burnished the 150 prints and 10 artist’s proofs. It was hand-drawn onto the surface of the plate from various photographs cropped and recomposed by the artist in Photoshop. No photographic reproduction techniques were used. The one-plate mezzotint depicts the East Side of Central Park near the Metropolitan Museum. The seemingly casual moment of the scene is rather ironically referred by the title since the image took more than four months to compose.
Night Beach
Color Serigraph – Image Size 8 X 11.5 inches
The Print Club of Albany is pleased to present “Night Beach” a 31 color serigraph by Thomas Seawell, in an edition of 160 prints and 10 Artists proofs. Although 31 actual colors were screened, numerous other colors appear due to overprinting with transparencies. The subject is an observation of the piles of commercial objects and invented forms that are seen or imagined in debris piles left by the tide at the beach.
Hermes Façade (GCT)
Color aquatint with 3 plates – Image Size 8 X 10 inches
Michael has a fascination with architecture of buildings and uses them in many of her etchings. Grand Central Terminal has interested her for years for the role it plays in people’s lives and for its magnificent stature. The main façade or Hermes Façade is its most impressive view as it is seen from Park Avenue. Its grandeur and classical beauty emphasizes its importance in the life of the city.
Cinemaniac
Mezzotint – Image Size 9.5 x 5.75 Inches
This edition of 160 prints with 10 artist’s proofs was printed by the artist in her studio. The image is printed on German etching paper utilizing Gamblin Portland Cool Black and Graphic chemical 514 bone black ink. The artist remarked that the image was of a Swiss made Paillard-Bolex movie camera. To restore the sense of objects moving forward and back, the perspectives were distorted and exaggerated. The angles, forms, patterns and lighting are manipulated to suggest a zaniness of animation or a cinema of the manic or “Cinemanic.”
Bastions
Etching/Aquatint/Dry Point Intaglio – Image Size 5.75 x 8 inches
Michael DiCerbo of Paterson, New Jersey, earned a BFA and an MGA from Pratt. He is a member and past-president of The Society of American Graphic Artists. He has received awards, honors and grants from SAGA, Audubon Arts, The Print Club of Albany, Manhattan Arts Magazine and Boston Printmakers. He has had solo exhibitions at The Old Print Shop, Rensselaerville Institute, Seton Hall University, Polizzi Gallery and Columbia University. He has also been in group exhibitions throughout the United States, Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, England, Japan, Canada and Taiwan. This edition of 160 prints and 10 artist’s proofs was pulled by a master printer in Prague.
Stereo
Color Linocut – Image Size 9 x 12 inches
Richard Pantell is a printmaker/painter who lives in the Catskills with his printmaker/artist wife, Karen Whitman, who helped him print this edition of 160 prints and 10 artist’s proofs. Educated at the University at Bridgeport and the Art Students League, he has received awards and honors from the Allied Artists of America, SAGA, the National Academy of Design and other professional groups. His work has been exhibited at more than 40 solo and group exhibitions, including a solo show at the Old Print Shop, New York. His works are included in more than 16 public collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art, The New York Public Library Print Collection, The Museum of the City of New York and the British Museum.
Landscape with Window and Chair
Mezzotint – Image Size 4 X 3 inches
Printed in an edition of 150 prints and 10 artist’s proofs. Kipniss states that it is part of his working process to explore an image in pencil, in paint and in print. As the image evolves, its ramifications lead to hints of the next work. This image is well-suited for this medium since in mezzotint the artist literally draws the light as he burnishes the tiny rocked copper pinholes that trap the ink and become the image.
1990s
Year of the Locust
Mezzotint – Image Size 28 X 16 inches
Ms. Mitchell is from Berkeley, California. She is a member of Printmakers, the Los Angles Printmaking Society, the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and happily for us, the Print Club of Albany. She is a graduate of the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Ca. and spent several years in residence at the Kala Institute in Berkeley after which she set up her own studio, where she has worked for the last seven years. Having exhibited in nearly two dozen states, receiving numerous awards and purchase prizes, Ms. Mitchell has succeeded in juried and invitational venues, print exhibitions as well as general media exhibitions, and also in design and illustration venues. Highly inspired by the world illustration, she hopes to illustrate a book sometime in the future.
Pu’uhonua
Mezzotint – Image Size 8.5 x 11 inches
Herman Zaage is an artist/printmaker currently on the faculty of the New School of Social Research. Born in Jersey City, NY in 1927, Zaage attended WPA Art Workshops in the 1940’s. During the early 1960’s he studied Printmaking with John Ross at the New School and has been serving as his associate since 1964. From 1952 to 1982 he also worked in the commercial printing trade as a Photoengraver and Offset Color Dot Etcher. Mr. Zaage is a member of numerous professional societies, and has received awards from the national Academy of Design and others. In 1999, the State Island institute of Arts and Sciences mounted a Mini-Retrospective of his prints. A reproduction of his mezzotint, “Mangrove”, is included in Carol Wax’s book on the “History and Technique of the Mezzotint”.
Family Night at Fred’s Pleasure Club
Color Etching – Image Size 22 X 30 inches
Warrington Colescott was born in 1921 in Oakland, California. He recieved the Master of Arts at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from the Fullbright and Guggenheim foundations, as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts. His works are represented in major public collections of prints, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute among others. Read Mr. Colescott’s words about this delightful print> Mr. Colescott says:”Subject is a real place in Mamou, Louisiana, a center for Cajun and Zydeco music. Fred’s — a bar and honky tonk of local fame that is widely known for the regional music featured there. On Saturday mornings there is a famous broadcast from there to the entire state – and it is the scene of family entertainment and dancing by the local rice and crawfish farmers. The print emerged from sketches made on the premises in 1996.
Evening with White Porch
Mezzotint – Image Size 10 X 18 inches
Robert Kipniss was born in 1931 in New York City. He has studied at the Art Students League, Wittenburg University, and the University of Iowa where he received his BA and MFA in painting and art history. He spent many years making lithographs from stone, aluminum and Mylar plastic. He then switched to pre rocked mezzotint plates of copper. The special soft, dreamy images possible with mezzotint are apparent in this, the first mezzotint commissioned by the PCA. Robert Kipniss’ works are in the Metropolitan , Boston MFA and the Smithsonian, among many.
1930 Edison Coal Storage
Linocut – Image Size 8.5 x 6
Born in Austria (1908 – 2003), this internationally recognized artist studied architecture at Columbia University in New York, and art at the Sorbonne in Paris and the National Academy of Design in New York. He has exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Museum, the Cincinnati Museum and the Parrish Art Museum. His work can be found in the Metropolitan, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery. Freeman cut the block for this print in 1930, but it was not until 1995 that an edition was printed.
Spring Fed Pond
Lithograph – Image Size 12 X 17.5 inches
Roger Medearis was a student of Thomas Hart Benton while at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1930s. Born in 1920, his paintings and lithographs can be found in the collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He also has a painting hanging next to one of Thomas Hart Benton at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.
Chamberlin’s Flight
Lithograph – Image Size 12 X 17.5 inches
Harter Muncey is from Syracuse and studied art at SUNY – Oswego, Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and The Rochester Institute of Technology. At present he teaches art in central New York and has exhibited at a variety of print makers shows. This print was a special joint commission of the Print Club of Albany and The Empire State Aerosciences Museum. Chamberlin was a contemporary of Lindberg, and on June 4th carried the first passenger over the Atlantic two weeks after Lindberg’s solo flight. This flight set a new non-stop record of 3905 miles.
Recollection
Etching – Image Size 9 x 6 inches
Born in 1954 to artist parents, she attended Cooper Union in New York City. Her work can be found in the Corcoran, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute. She has earned many awards from such organizations as the Society of American Graphic Artists, the National Arts Club, the American Color Print Society and the Print Club of Albany.
The First Encounter – 1492
Lithograph – Image Size 12 x 16 inches
Born in 1914, this Cuban born artist came to America at age 13. He studied at the Art Students League in New York and has settled in that city. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships and numerous awards. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute, as well as in Mexico, Cuba and Spain. He died in 1996.
Winter Marsh
Woodcut – Image Size 8 x 10 inches
This native of North Dakota was born in 1938 and studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota. He has won awards from the Philadelphia Print Club and the Boston Printmakers. He currently lives and works in California. His work can be found in countless private collections, over 100 corporate collections, including General Mills, Xerox, IBM and ATT, and at least 20 museums, including the National Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Adirondack Window
Serigraph – Image Size 19 X 24 inches
Born on Long Island, New York (1941), Pond studied at Pratt and Carnegie Institutes. His work has been exhibited at the Elvejhem Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Art. Collections include the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago. Pond has won numerous commissions and grants and has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the School of Visual Arts in New York and C.W. Post on Long Island.
1980s
Landscape With Haywheels
Lithograph – Image Size 10 x 14 inches
Born in 1942 in Minnesota, Dallmann studied at the University of Iowa and currently lives in Philadelphia. He is a painter and a printmaker, as well as an educator who taught printmaking at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
Moraine – Albany
Wood Engraving – Image Size 6 X 4 inches
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940, he is one of the foremost wood engravers in the country. This printmaker, painter, designer and illustrator lives in Massachusetts. Some of his book illustrations, published at his Pennyroyal Press, include Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick and The Divine Comedy. His work can be found in the British Museum, the Library of Congress, and at Harvard, Cambridge and Princeton Universities.
Lily Pattern Weave
Lithograph – Image Size 10 X 8 inches
Born in 1946 in Montana, Pollock earned has MA from Montana State University in 1973. He is a professor of art at Eastern Montana College. In 1979 he was awarded a printmaking fellowship by the Western States Arts Foundation. Both a lithographer and watercolorist, Pollock’s works were featured in an article in American Artist magazine in May 1985. He is represented by Anderson Gallery in Boston and Robischon Gallery in Denver.
Albany at 300
Wood Engraving – Image Size 6 x 8
Born in New York City (1942 – 2016), he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University. Primarily a book artist and wood engraver, McCurdy has designed and illustrated many books. He is also a book publisher and printer. His Penmaen Press in Great Barrington, Massachusetts has published such books as Face to Face and Toward the Light (a book of his engravings which won a bronze medal at the Leipzig book competition in 1983). He has also become involved in writing and illustrating children’s books. Mr McCurdy has his own web site, click on it.
Promised Equinox II
Aquatint – Image Size 11.5 X 8.75 inches
Crump was born in North Carolina and later studied at Boston University. His work has been widely exhibited and has earned numerous awards, including from the Corning Museum (1973), Boston Printmakers (1976, 1979) and Purdue University (1980). Crump currently lives in Boston.
Make Believe
Etching – Image Size 15.5 x 12 inches
Sexauer studied at Edinboro State College and Kent State. His has earned many commissions and his work has been widely exhibited. His work can be found in the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, Smith College and the Butler Institute. Sexauer is currently serving as Dean and Chair of Printmaking at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Thomas Eakins
Etching – Image Size 9 x 9 inches
A native of Albany (1941), he holds an MFA from Syracuse University and earned the Abbey Fellowhip to the American Academy in Rome (1965, 1966). His work is in the Library of Congress, the Springfield Museum, the New Britain Museum and the New Jersey State Museum. He exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, Penn State and the New Britain Museum. He is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists and Boston Printmakers.
Black Camisole and Pajamas
Drypoint – Image Size 9.5 x 19.5 inches
Born in New York City (1934), he earned an MFA from Columbia University. Many important collections own his work–the British Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Museo Arte in Puerto Rico. His exhibitions include the Whitney Museum.
White Clouds Over the City
Collagraph – Image Size 9 X 12 inches
A native of New York City, she is a graduate of the University at Albany. She also studied at the Gallery Art School in Washington, D.C. Her work is in many fine collections. She is a member of the Albany Artists Group, the Southern Vermont Artists Association and the Print Club of Albany.
1970s
Nesting Time
Wood Engraving – Image Size 9 X 12 inches
Born in Port Orchard, Washington (1922), he is a graduate of the Art Students League. He also studied at Columbia University under Hans Mueller. A book illustrator in the natural sciences, he has worked for Little, Brown and the World Book Encyclopedia. He has exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Oakland Art Museum and Kennedy Galleries.
The Tuft
Linoleum Cut- Image Size 12 x 8 inches
A native of New Rochelle, New York (1906), he studied at the Art Students League and later under Leger, Ozenfant and Galanis in Paris. West Point Military Academy and Dartmouth own examples of his work. He was the director of the Southern Vermont Art Center from 1964 to 1975 as well as the director of the Sharon Art Center (New Hampshire) from 1961 to 1963.
With Each Lengthening Day – New Hope
Etching – Image Size 13 X 10 inches
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, this artist is known for her printmaking, painting and ceramics. Galleries in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Canada hold her work.
Bristlecone
Etching – Image Size 4 X 7 inches
This artist has been honored by the Oklahoma Museum of Art, the Franklin Mint (1972) and the Art Association of Newport (1973). She has exhibited her work from California to Maine.
Canyon de Chelly
Lithograph – Image Size 15 x 10
A native of Washington (1907), he studied at the Art Students League and was also a pupil of Charles W. Hawthorne. His work is owned by the Whitney, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Yale University, the Smithsonian, the Boston Public Library and the Metropolitan. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of Art. He was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Washington Printmakers, Boston Printmakers and the Print Club of Albany. Taylor died in 1991.
Peanut Cactus
Wood Engraving – Image Size 5.5 X 4 inches
Irwin, Pennsylvania was his birth place (1907). He studied at Carnegie Mellon University. His work is in the Metropolitan, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library. He exhibited at the Corcoran, the Denver Art Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. His book illustrations can be found in Longfellow’s Poems (Limited Editions Club), and Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (Peter Pauper Press). Hanna died in 1987.
Jonquils
Etching/Intaglio – Image Size 4.5 x 4.5 Inches
Born in New Orleans in 1942, she was raised in Atlanta, where she went to high school. She studied at the Penland School of Crafts and the North Carolina State Architecture School, where she saw a woman in the back of a room, working on an etching press. She approached the woman and went on to do etchings, colographs, stone lithography, linocuts and woodcuts, specializing in flowers, tobacco barns and ‘scenery’, She studied with Walt Martin at Studio 4 in Atlanta and Joe Cox in North Carolina, She moved to Raleigh in 1966 to raise her three children and operated Jill Flink Fine Arts for 21 years until her divorce. She did framing, graduated from the Realtor Institute, began selling real estate, has been working as a realtor fulltime for decades and has not produced any prints but retains her machinery. She is also a licensed pilot who has owned two planes. Her works have been shown from Manchester, N.H, to Newport, VA.
Balconies of Taormina
Lithograph – Image Size 10 x 12.25 inches
Born in Budapest (1894), he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in that city. He also studied under Robert Atkin. In addition to his graphic work, he painted (oils and acrylic) and sculpted. This member of the National Academy of Design and the Society of American Graphic Artists exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco’s Museum of Fine Art. The Metropolitan, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Honolulu Academy of Fine Art and the Budapest Museum all own his work. Fabri died in 1975.
Vermont Church
Serigraph – Image Size 10 x 13 inches
A native of Cincinnati (1896), Shokler studied with Daniel Garber at the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts, as well as in Paris. The Metropolitan, the Library of Congress and the Carnegie Institute own his work. He exhibited at the Paris Salon (1928), the National Academy of Design and the Dayton Art Institute. Shokler authored the Artist’s Manual for Silkscreen Printmaking. He died in 1978.
New England Landscape
Etching – Image Size 4 X 6 inches
Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, this New England artist’s work is in the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library. She has won the John Taylor Arms Prize.
1960s
Stronghold
Wood Engraving – Image Size 11 X 18 inches
Born in Washington, D.C., she was a sculptor, a printer and a translator (of Virgil). Her work is found in such collections as the National Gallery of Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Houghton Library and Harvard University. The National Arts Club and the Salmagundi Club have both honored her. A splendid book illustrator, her work is cherished in both public and private collections. Abbe lived and worked in Manchester, Vermont, until her death in 2012.
The Day of the Hawk
Wood Engraving- Image Size 12 x 9 inches
A native of Chicago (1905), Ward studied art in Leipzig, Germany (1927). He won the Arms Prize (1962) and the Samuel F.B. Morse Gold Medal (1966) and was a president of the Society of American Graphic Artists. His books without words include, God’s Man, Song Without Words and Madman’s Drum. Ward’s works can be found in the Library of Congress and the Newark Museum. This member of the National Academy of Design died in 1985.
Church at Chichicastenango
Etching – Image Size 13 X 10 inches
A native of Bellington, West Virginia (1920), he learned his craft at the Art Students League (1947). He has exhibited at the Library of Congress and the Brooklyn Museum. Reed continues to exhibit with the Print Club of Albany.
Barn in the Hills
Etching – Image Size 4.75 X 6.75 inches
Born in Malnate, Italy (1900), he studied at the National Academy of Design. His work is in the Whitney, the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Corcoran. He won prizes from the Carnegie Institute and the National Academy of Design.
On Via Ostiense
Aquatint – Image Size 6.5 x 8.25
A native of Jacksonville, Illinois (1898), he studied at both the Chicago and Pennsylvania Academies of Fine Art. Capps was a member of the Prairie Printmakers and the Society of American Graphic Artists. His work can be found in the Swedish National Museum (Stockholm), the Philbrook Art Center and the Carnegie Institute. The Library of Congress awarded him prizes in 1941 and 1948. He died in 1981.
Seal Ledges Awash
Wood Engraving – Image Size 6 X 8.5 inches
Born in Detroit (1895), he perfected his art in his native city’s School of Fine Art. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the Salmagundi Club, and has exhibited at the Smithsonian and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. The United States Information Service sent a travelling exhibit of his work abroad. Meissner’s prints can be found in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the Baltimore Museum. He died in 1977.
Campanularia Phacelia
Serigraph – Image Size 18 x 12 Inches
A native of Germany, he emigrated to America and studied art in New York City. After living on the east coast, he moved to Twentynine Palms, California, a desert-like area. He was fascinated by this habitat and it greatly influenced his work which has been almost entirely devoted to flowers. The Hunt Botanical Library, the Library of Congress, and the California State Library all own his work.
Seeds of War
Serigraph – Image Size 15 x 9.75 inches
Born in Pinehurst, North Carolina (1923), her work is in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the Philadelphia Free Library. She has had one-woman shows at the Hudson River Museum and the Albany Institute of History & Art. She died in 2003.
The Doll Lady
Etching – Image Size 3.25 x 5.5 inches
Alice Pauline Schafer was born in Albany in 1899. She studied at the Albany School of Fine Arts, She had been Registrar at the Albany Institute of History & Art and President of the Print Club of Albany. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, National Academy of Design and elsewhere.
The Peacock
Woodcut – Image Size 13.5 X 9.5 inches
A native of Budapest (1907), he studied at the Hungarian Royal Academy of Fine Art. He came to the United States in the mid 1950’s and settled in New Jersey. His art is owned by the Metropolitan, the British Museum, the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. The Hungarian government gave him the Kossuth Prize (1956) and China awarded him “Printmaker of the Century”. His work was exhibited at 22 one-man shows in Europe, 15 in China and 16 in the U.S. Domjan, who died in 1992, was represented by Kennedy Galleries in New York.
1950s
Rockport Cove
Serigraph – Image Size 12 X 18 inches
Born in Newark (1910), he learned his craft at the Art Students League. A Guggenheim Fellow (1941), his work is held by the Metropolitan, the Newark Library, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design and the Library of Congress. Pytlak founded the National Serigraph Society and died in 1998.
County Derry
Wood Engraving- Image Size 5.5 x 8 inches
A native New Yorker (1913), he studied at the Art Students League in New York. Later, he attended the School of Technology in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His work is in the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan. A winner of the John Taylor Arms Prize (1968), he has become a most honored artist. He illustrated the Keepsakes published by the Typophiles of New York City. He is a member of both the National Academy of Design and the Print Club of Albany. He died in 2004.
Monadic
Wood Engraving – Image Size 20 X 12 inches
A native of the Bronx, born in 1932, she studied under Antonio Frasconi and Hodaka Yoshida. With a B.A. from Hunter College, she worked as an illustrator for Holt and Scribner’s, she won the Caldecott medal twice — 1966 and 1972. Although a career as a designer for a publishing house was open to her, she chose to go full time into printmaking.
She said she enjoyed illustrating stores from Russia, Ireland, and, as an Armenian-American, Armenia. She and her husband live in Florence in western Massachusetts.
Queenie and Her Cubs
Lithograph – Image Size 13 X 9.5 inches
Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1899, she studied at Skidmore. She was a fellow of the Royal Society of Artists. Her work is in the Metropolitan, the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. She frequently depicted animals, especially cats, dogs and horses. She died in 1976.
Cradled in the Hills
Lithograph – Image Size 9 x 12
Minneapolis was her home town. She exhibited at the Corcoran, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy. The Metropolitan, the Carnegie Institute and the Honolulu Academy of Art own her work. She died in 1972.
Jack-in-the-Pulpits
Wood Engraving – Image Size 8 X 6 inches
A native of Surrey, England (1907), she studied at the Royal College of Art. Her work is in the British Museum, the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library. A noted illustrator of books, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. Unwin died in 1982.
Card Playing Fisherman
Lithograph/Mezzotint – Image Size 9.5 x 14 Inches
Born in Rostock, Germany (1888), he studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin. His work, which has earned many prizes, often features the sea. Von Neumann exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Corcoran and the 1939 Worlds Fair. He is represented in the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque Nationale. Von Neumann died in 1976.
Clouds at Sunset
Etching and Aquatint- Image Size 9 x 14 inches
Born in Oakland, California (1903), she trained at the California School of Fine Arts (1925). The Library of Congress gave her the Purchase Award in 1953. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan, the Smithsonian and the Tokyo Museum. The Print Club of Albany gave her the Fower Prize in 1960. Alice Geneva Kloss, known as Gene Kloss, died in 1996.
Don Quixote
Wood Engraving- Image Size 11.75 x 8.25 inches
Born in Buffalo (1903), he studied at Pratt Institute. In 1969 he won the John Taylor Arms Prize. The Library of Congress gave him the Pennell Award in 1960. The New York Public Library, Youngstown University and Middlebury College own his work. Bate was a member of the Salmagundi Club and died in 1972.
Peaceful Afternoon
Engraving – Image Size 7 X 8.25 inches
A native of Nuremburg, Germany (1885), he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in that city, as well as the Royal Academy of Munich (1910). His work is found in the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Schultheiss exhibited at the National Academy of Design. His prizes include the Talcott (1940), the Library of Congress Pennell Purchase Prize (1943, 1944, 1945) and the John Taylor Arms Prize (1943, 1944). Schultheiss died in 1961
1940s
Bengalese Sisters
Lithograph – Image Size 10 X 13 inches
Born in Almeria, Spain (1914), Castellon’s surrealist work is found in the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney and the Library of Congress. His work has been exhibited at Swarthmore College, Mills College and the Museum of Modern Art. He was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1941. Castellon, who died in 1971, illustrated many books, including Shenandoah and I Went into the Country.
Grain Threshers, Old Mexico
Mezzotint – Image Size 10 x 15 inches
A native of Grand Rapids (1915), he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute (1940). His work is in the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Library of Congress and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1950 the Society of American Etchers awarded him the John Taylor Arms Prize. Weidenaar, who died in 1985, is recognized as one of this centuries foremost promoters of mezzotint.
The Old Order
Lithograph – Image Size 5.25 X 8 inches
Arms is considered one of America’s greatest printmakers. He was born in Washington, D.C. (1887) and later studied under Ross Turner and D.A. Gregg. He was chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a member of the National Academy of Design. His work is in many major museums, including the Library of Congress, Princeton University, the Fogg, the Metropolitan, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert and Yale University. The Print Club of Albany’s John Taylor Arms Prize is awarded in honor of this “patron saint” of the Club. Arms died in 1953.
Good Bye Day
Lithograph – Image Size 13.875 X 9.75 inches
This artist, born in 1882, was a pupil of William Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Thayer. A celebrated artist, he is the subject of many biographies. He authored numerous books, illustrating them himself: Rockwellkentiana (1933), It’s Me O Lord (1955), Of Men and Mountains (1959). His work is in the Pushkin (Moscow), the Hermitage (Leningrad) and the Metropolitan. Kent died in 1971.
The Boyer Place
Wood Engraving – Image Size 5 x 7.25
A native of Scituate, Rhode Island (1890), she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and learned wood engraving with Paul Bonnet in Paris. Her work is in the Carnegie Institute, the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library. A member of the National Academy of Design, she was awarded a prize by the Academy. Albee, who died in 1966, exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, Paris, the New Jersey State Museum and the Philadelphia Print Club.
Gold Fish
Wood Engraving – Image Size 6.125 X 7.25 inches
Dorothy Lathrop was born in Albany, NY in 1891 and learned her craft under Henry McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Students League. She usually incorporated animals into her work. Lathrop won the prestigious Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible (1938). One of the foremost illustrators of children’s books, she has collaborated with de la Mare, Dorothy Canfield, Sara Teasdale and Rachel Field. This past member of the National Academy of Design and former president of the Print Club of Albany died in 1980.
Peaceful Valley
Wood Engraving – Image Size 4.5 x 9 Inches
A native of Buffalo (1897), this artist has been awarded several prizes including the Eyre Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1928). His works are in the Smithsonian, the Baltimore Museum, the Library of Congress and the American Antiquarian Society. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Victoria and Albert in London. Cheffetz, who died in 1965, was awarded many prizes during his lifetime, including at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, 1934.
Gulls and Spray
Block and Print – Image Size 9 x 8.75 inches
Mrs. Watson (born 1889) and her husband Ernest both worked in this difficult medium, which requires the carving of several blocks for superimposing of different colors. Her work, found in many museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum, concerns itself with nature in its varied forms–birds, flowers, snow and water. Watson was also a painter; her murals can be found in many churches. She died in 1948.
French Hill
Drypoint – Image Size 9 x 12 inches
Born in Danbury, Connecticut, (1868) he learned his craft at the Art Institute of Chicago, later refining his skill at the Academie Julian in Paris. Collections such as at the Corcoran, New York Public Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, and at the Art Institute of Chicago hold his work, so redolent of New England. He also worked in oils and watercolors. Ryder who died in 1949, belonged to the National Academy of Design and the Salmagundi Club in New York.
A New Bill
Lithograph – Image Size 6 X 8 inches
Gropper was born in New York City in 1897. The National Museums of Warsaw, Prague and Sofia own his work, as do the Universities of Arizona and Maine, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum. He authored and illustrated several books, including The Golden Land, American Folklore, Capricios and Lidice. Gropper, who died in 1978, was also a W.P.A. muralist.
1930s
Child with Goats
Lithograph – Image Size 6 X 8 inchesJohn E. Costigan was born in 1888 in Providence RI., He was employed at H. C. Miner Lithographing Co. where learned both art and printmaking. He had exhibitions throughout the United States including the Library of Congress and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is included in major collections such as the Library of Congress and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in 1928. He Lived in Orangeburg until his death in 1972. The Print “Child with Goats” was one of only 20 lithographs created by the artist. It was made in editions of 156 and was printed by Theodore Cuno of Philadelphia. The subject of the print was the suggestion of Dorothy Lathrop in part because of her interest in animals and the fact that by that time no prints of animals were commissioned by the club.
The Boys on a Beach II
Engraving – Image Size 5.875 x 8.5
Born in Manhattan, NY (1904), he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. He became curator of prints at the Boston Public Library and was a member of the National Academy of Design. His work is found in the Corcoran, the Metropolitan Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Victoria and Albert. Many prizes are his, including the Gold Medal of the Paris International Exhibition (1937-1938). He died in 1999.
Inlet Light
Lithograph – Image Size 8.125 X 12.625 inches
Born in Brooklyn in 1906, Stow Wengenroth studied at the Art Students League of New York and Grand Central School of Art. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1942. A master of lithography, he won more than 30 print prizes and later published Making a Lithograph. (1)
Andrew Wyeth once termed him, “America’s greatest living artist working in black and white.”(2) He focused on shadow, light, and form, and avoided color.
He lived and worked for many years in New York City and Long Island before moving to Rockport, MA.
He was renowned for his carefully rendered scenes of the New England seacoast, including its craggy rocks, lighthouses, and boats.
His works are on display at the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Whitney, Metropolitan, Fogg Museum of Art in Cambridge, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Boston Public Library. He died in 1978 in Rockport.
(1) Stow Wengenroth | Smithsonian American Art Museum (si.edu)
(2) Stow Wengenroth Is Dead at 71; Artist Was Known for Lithographs – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Laughing Child
Drypoint – Image Size 12 x 9 InchesA native of Newark (1890), he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. He became curator of prints at the Boston Public Library and was a member of the National Academy of Design. His work is found in the Corcoran, the Metropolitan Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the Victoria and Albert. Many prizes are his, including the Gold Medal of the Paris International Exhibition (1937-1938). Heintzelman died in 1965.
The Shore Road
Engraving – Image Size 2.5 x 5.25 inchesBorn in Dracut, Massachusetts (1889), he won the John Taylor Arms Prize (1935). His work is in the Smithsonian, the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Whitney and the Bibliotheque Nationale. Nason’s work was selected for Fifty Prints of the Year, 1926-27. Nason died in 1971
Street in Assisi
Etching – Image Size 10 x 7.25 inches
A native of Stuttgart (1879), he was a student of James D. Smillie in New York City. He has won many prizes including a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (1915) and at the Salmagundi Club in 1917 and 1918. His work is in the Uffizi Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the New York Public Library. Roth died in 1964.
Corsican Washergirl
Wood Engraving – Image Size 3.25 X 5.5 inches
Born in London (1901), Leighton studied at the Slade and came to America in the 1940’s. Her work is in the Britich Museum, the Victoria and Albert, and the Metropolitan. She designed stained glass for cathedrals and mosaics for convents. She started the Club off with a splendid piece-successive artists would have a mark to aim at. Leighton died in 1989.