In 2012, Jack and Susy Wadsworth donated 157 modern and contemporary Japanese prints to the JSMA. This remarkable collection, featuring woodblocks, intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, and mixed-media works by seventy-seven Japanese and Western artists, significantly augments the museum’s capacity to teach about Japanese graphic art from the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-centuries. The collection showcases contemporary Japanese artists not just as inheritors of the much-celebrated Edo-period (1615-1868) woodblock tradition, but as sophisticated international masters of various printmaking techniques. Curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, JSMA Chief Curator of Asian Art and Akiko Walley, Maude I. Kerns Professor of Japanese Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, this special exhibition explores a range of contemporary print techniques – aquatint, etching, intaglio, lithography, mezzotint, silkscreen, stencils, and woodblock printing – as well as a great range of subject matter.

Coinciding with the preparation for this exhibition, Professor Walley offered two courses geared for undergraduate and graduate students. In fall 2014, with generous support from the Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education, Professor Walley taught a class in collaboration with the JSMA and Charlene Liu, Associate Professor of Printmaking, and Mika Aono, Printmaking and Fibers Studio Technician, both members of the UO’s Department of Art. That course explored the history of contemporary Japanese prints with a focus on their techniques. Students learned about prints by carefully scrutinizing examples from the Wadsworth Collection, through lectures and readings, and by learning to make their own prints using the four major techniques of relief, intaglio, lithography, and screenprinting.

In winter 2015, Professor Walley and Chief Curator Anne Rose Kitagawa team-taught a museum-based course in which sixteen undergraduate and graduate students studied Japanese contemporary prints along with aspects of museum curatorship and exhibition planning, design, and installation. In addition to focusing on the Wadsworth prints in weekly research assignments and class discussions, students learned from museum professionals, print dealers, and collectors in a series of guest lectures and field trips. The fruits of the research that the students conducted in these two classes form the core of this exhibition. Indeed, the final installation reflects many of the ideas that they raised in discussions and assignments, and a number of the students contributed label copy and catalogue entries based on the original research they conducted for their final projects. With generous support from the WLS Spencer Foundation, a number of the students further deepened and refined their research in order to provide public tours of the exhibition.

Celebrating 50 Years of the Printmakers Council

10:00-10:45
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), "The Death, and Life, of French Reproductive Engraving in the Nineteenth Century"

11:00-11:30
Benedicte Coste (Unversity of Burgundy), "The Child in the House of Print: Henry Daniel's edition of Walter Pater's 'The Child in the House'"

11:30-12:00
Sophie Aymes (University of Burgundy), "Woodcuts and some Words: Writing about autographic wood engraving in the early 20th century"

MSH, salle R03

The idea of creating a digital resource of prints and drawings has in recent years become a reality on a global scale – for example the virtual print room of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de). A collaborative project of these two institutions, along with the University of Marburg - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and the University of Göttingen, is currently linking the online publication of prints and drawings from the collections of Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel with iconographic indexing and academic research into the early modern collecting of prints.
The conference will take as its starting point two key questions. How can research into the history of art collecting and digital indexing work together to form a mutually beneficial partnership? How can indexing adapt to the demands of the research community?
Papers on the following subjects and case studies will be welcome:
• The theory and practice of collecting in the early modern period
• Case studies: religious and secular orders, private individuals, artists and universities as collectors of graphic arts
• Networks and trade structures: art agents, dealers, advisers
• The indexing and publicising of graphic collections: from the ‘Recueil’ to the online database
• How can indexing and online publication adapt to the demands of the research community?
• The functionality and organisational systems of graphic collections
• The research and documentation of provenances
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers devoted to the subjects mentioned above.
Proposals (maximum of 500 words) with the title of the paper, institutional affiliation (if applicable), postal and email address and a short CV can be sent up to 30 November 2015 to:
vkk@hab.de. The conference programme will be published in early 2016 on the conference website:
//diglib.hab.de/?link=046

The Trustees of International Print Center New York invite you to join them for PrintFest, a two-day event for undergraduate and graduate students from the New York area to show, sell and trade their prints.


October 16; 3 - 8pm & October 17; 11 - 6pm
@ Rogue Space Chelsea
508 West 26th (9th Floor) 9E-9F, NYC 10001

For more information, please visit: http://www.ipcny.org/exhibitions/printfest-october-16-17-2015/

Physically demanding and technically challenging, printmaking has often been considered man’s labor. As the Library’s unusual collection by forward-thinking Henrietta Louisa Koenen (1830-1881) demonstrates, engravings, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs executed by female printmakers have been around almost as long as artists started creating prints in the late fifteenth century. From 1848 until 1861, she collected an astonishing array of sheets by women artists from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Executed by experts and amateurs alike, these women pursued their craft as part of larger family workshops, as a means of self-realization and for the thrill of making and sharing pictures created in multiples.

Exhibited for the first time since 1901, the works from Henrietta Louisa Koenen’s collection include not only well-known artists like Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) and Maria Cosway (1760-1838), but also rare and unusual prints by the Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), Charlotte Napoleon (1802-1839), and Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

APS members are invited to a book signing for Ruth E. Iskin's new publication, The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s in New York.

Saturday, October 24 at 2 pm
Posters Please Gallery
26 West 17th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)

For more information, please visit:

http://www.upne.com/1611686159.html
http://www.postersplease.com/

Edvard Munch was one of the foremost protagonists of modernism, and his paintings and graphic works number among the absolute highlights of turn-of-the-century art. This exhibition, featuring around 100 of the Norwegian artist’s most important works, will include icons of his art such as The Scream, Madonna, The Kiss, and Melancholy, as well as works exemplifying his experimental approaches to printed graphics.

For centuries artists have made multi-part series, undertaking subjects on a scale not possible in a single work. This engagement was especially prevalent in the 1960s, as artists dedicated to conceptual, minimalist, and pop approaches explored the potential of serial procedures and structures. Many prominent artists since then have produced serial projects at the renowned Los Angeles print workshop and publisher Gemini G.E.L. The exhibition will showcase 17 such series created at Gemini by 17 artists over the past five decades. It will include seminal early works by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella as well as more recent serial projects by John Baldessari, Julie Mehretu, Richard Serra, and others.