Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions, by 26 leading experts, expand the corpus far beyond the beautiful, already well-studied images produced in European hubs like London and Paris. The chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualise the rise in colour-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements. This landmark volume, of 450 pages with 350 colour illustrations, launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields.

American Historical Print Collectors Society - Upcoming Regional Meeting
William L. Clements Library, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
Friday, December 13, 10:00 am – Noon

Join us for a walk-through of an inspired exhibit comparing original drawings by the legendary editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant to rare historical prints from the Clements Library collection. In addition, Curator of Maps and Graphics, Sierra Laddusaw, will present a peek at new acquisitions for the library’s graphic arts and map divisions. The Clements Library at the University of Michigan houses one of the nation’s greatest Americana collections.

In addition to the Clements, there are several other great museums within walking distance to complete the day – the Kelsey Museum of Archeology, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of Natural History.

We will meet at 9:45 am on December 13 at the north entrance (glass vestibule facing campus) of the Clements for our tour. We will be asked to sign in and check coats and bags before entering the exhibit space, which is also the Clements reading room.

We will plan on gathering for lunch in the area after the Clements session.

Directions: The Clements Library is located at 909 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 on the main campus of the University of Michigan. A limited number of parking spaces may be available at two and four hour meters within the blocks adjacent to the Clements on Tappan, Monroe, and State Streets. Your best bet will be the parking ramps at 650 South Forest or 324 Maynard Streets, both within a quarter mile.

To register for the meeting, please email Clayton no later than NOVEMBER 30 at clayclem@umich.edu.

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 15 ATTENDEES.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is thrilled to announce the establishment of the Brand X Editions Archive with a gift from Robert Blanton and Brand X Editions, the globally recognized New York-based print studio and publisher founded by master printer Blanton. The gift currently includes more than 350 screenprints by Mickalene Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Joel Mesler, Adam Pendleton, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Jenny Holzer, Emily Mae Smith, Tschabalala Self, and many others. The Archive will expand over the years to include new works produced by the studio.

To celebrate the gift, the PMA will host a Brand X Editions retrospective exhibition in 2025 and publish a richly illustrated catalogue providing a history of the studio and a broad overview of the Archive. The Archive and related documentation will be available for consultation in the PMA’s Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and an associated database of the works will be accessible for online research and study.

“We are grateful to receive this gift from BXE and Robert Blanton,” said Sasha Suda, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the PMA. “This gesture is both a coup and an honor for the PMA in light of Brand X Editions’ tremendous impact on contemporary screenprinting. We are proud to give these important works a permanent home.”

“Robert Blanton and his team of chromists and master printers at Brand X have been at the cutting edge of the screenprint medium for over four decades. They have pushed the traditional screenprint into areas of artistic expression that make it a vital medium for 21st Century artists” said Louis Marchesano, the Audrey and William H. Helfand Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. “The addition of the Brand X Editions Archive to the collection of the PMA goes a long way toward building an authoritative resource on screenprinting and we’re more than delighted to provide a home where these works can be studied and exhibited for generations to come. Because Brand X has not only published prints, but also produced prints for other publishers, the texture and details of their technical and artistic accomplishments haven't been fully understood until now.”

The history of the PMA’s Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs is closely connected to the history of the screenprint (or silkscreen) medium and boasts one of the foremost collections of early screenprinting from the 1930s and ’40s. The first head of the department, Carl Zigrosser, who was hired in 1940, championed the medium and was closely associated with influential pioneers, including Guy Macoy who produced what are believed to be the first artistic screenprints in the history of art.

Says studio founder Robert Blanton, “Brand X has been very fortunate to work with many of the most talented and respected artists for nearly half a century. During that time, our team of unequalled printmakers has constantly sought to practice the traditional art of screenprinting at its highest level, while expanding the possibilities of what a screenprint can be. I am proud of the work we do, and with the establishment of the Brand X Editions Archive at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we will be working with the PMA to help broaden the knowledge of this beautiful and nuanced medium.”

About the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a national and international destination for art, but first we are Philadelphia’s Museum of Art – for all the many diverse communities of the city. Through our collections, exhibitions, events, educational activities, celebrations and more, the PMA is a storyteller, and we welcome everyone to be part of the story -- our doors are wide open. To learn more, visit www.philamuseum.org.

For additional information, contact the Communications Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: pressroom@philamuseum.org.

I am pleased to share the The Israel Museum, Jerusalem acquisition of my triptych : Rumor, 2017, 300 x 168 cm, 120 x 67in, to it's permanent collection.
Rumor, is a significant work in my thematic and formalistic journey. It is first and foremost the expression of my continued preoccupation with the local and broader political and moral complexities, encompassing not just ethnic conflicts but the very fundaments of land, water and time. The millennia of territorial struggles; ever-present in the most rudimentary daily realities. Rumor was inspired [Or rather triggered] by a local dispute between Palestinians and Jewish settlers, over access to natural springs in the West Bank; while water rights around the world, are increasingly being weaponized as climate change destabilizes weather patterns.

The Folger Shakespeare Library announced earlier this year that it is reopening its historic home on Capitol Hill to the public on Friday, November 17, 2023, after a major three-year building renovation that will allow the Folger to share more of its collection and resources than ever before. Please visit the link below for more information.

This book celebrates Tandem Press’s 35th anniversary. Sarah Kirk Hanley wrote an essay for the book outlining how Tandem has continued to prove itself as a leader in the field of contemporary fine art prints. She points out how Tandem has grown since its 25th anniversary and discusses the work of nineteen artists that have collaborated with Tandem Press in recent years.

The University of Delaware Press published the book Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire (2022), by Amanda Lahikainen, as part of the series Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture.

In conjunction with Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, Print Center New York is pleased to present a new performance of Bethany Collins’s project America: A Hymnal, which offers a chronological retelling of American history, politics, and culture through one song.

Over time, “My Country ’Tis of Thee” (also known as “America”) has seen its title and lyrics re-written at least 100 times in support of passionately held causes—from temperance and suffrage to abolition and even the Confederacy. During this one-hour performance at the Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse of The Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers), singers from The Unsung Collective will sing a single version of the anthem, “War” from 1862, in a myriad of musical forms.

About The Unsung Collective
The Unsung, directed by Tyrone Clinton, is a community-based music collective devoted to celebrating stories of the Black experience. They are a non-profit dedicated to serving the local NYC community by expanding the confines of the Western musical canon and fostering educational relationships with those who are “willing to listen.”

Please register at the link below

You are invited to attend the Portland Fine Print Fair, January 27-29, 2023. The Fair, now celebrating its tenth year, will be held in the historic Fields Ballroom of the Portland Art Museum. Peruse and purchase prints from 16 top dealers from across North America, Europe, and Asia. These knowledgeable art dealers welcome your questions, whether you are a first-time collector or a seasoned connoisseur. Prints from the Old Masters to contemporary emerging artists will be on sale, and excellent works can be found in all price ranges. This is your chance to browse and buy at the largest and most comprehensive print fair on the West Coast.

Please visit the link below for more details.

"Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective" surveys over 200 examples of the artist’s work from four decades. The 224-page book is printed by SYL L'Art Grafica in both a softbound edition for $55.00 and a signed limited run hardbound edition for $75.00 (both plus shipping). The retrospective will be ready in January 2023 and is available to preorder now at artfulbusinessadvisory@gmail.com.

In her introduction to the book, author Deborah Lee Luskin says, "Viewing these prints demands a deep look at images of objects that in their clarity and solitariness become profoundly metaphoric and spiritual. Even at third glance, these austere, still images in black and white were puzzling. I was forced to slow down, and in slowing down, I started see. I started to see the etching, relief, inversion, ink, paper and pressure used to create shade and texture as if each print had undergone a geological metamorphosis similar to the formation of the earth. By showing us the world as he sees it, Brian’s images ask us questions at the bedrock of existence: How did we arrive here? Where are we going?”

About his work, Cohen states, “I embrace themes of loss, futility, destruction, and unexpected, redemptive beauty, themes tied to the tradition of printmaking. The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. There is something about setting an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence — a presence I hope will endure in my work.”

Brian D. Cohen is an educator, printmaker and painter. He founded Bridge Press in 1989 to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. Artist’s books and prints by Brian D. Cohen have been shown in over forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum, and in over 200 group shows.

Contributors:

Dr. Sura Levine is Professor Emerita of Art History. Levine has published essays and catalogue entries for museum exhibitions and scholarly journals in the United States and Europe. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Deborah Lee Luskin is a writer, editor, speaker, radio commentator. and educator. Luskin has been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating from New York City in 1984. Her stories and essays have been featured in many publications.

Helen Whybrow is an as an educator, farmer, and writer. Helen was the publisher of Countryman Press and editor for Orion Magazine and Milkweed Editions before founding the Center for Whole Communities, a nationally recognized place of learning and change-making. She is the author of two books, editor of several anthologies, and contributor to literary journals.