Here are a few sites which you may find of interest............
Printmaking - techniques and study
What is a print? - The Museum of Modern Art
A step-by-step explanation of printmaking techniques - woodcut,
etching, lithography and screenprinting - along with a glossary and recommended reading list. The site was created to
accompany an exhibition from 2001.
Organizations
The Achenbach Graphic Arts Council
In association with the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, this
group of local collectors and printmakers is a wonderful group that supports print collecting and printmaking in the Bay Area.
Under their heading, "What is a print?", the site gives the Print Council of America's definition of a print, and then has
an excellent glossary of basic print terminology.
The Print Council of America
This organization, founded in 1956, is a professional, non-profit,
organization of individuals whom represent collections of works of art on paper throughout the United States and Canada.
The organization's mission is to "foster the creation, dissemination, and appreciation of fine prints, old and new".
They have played a strong role in providing education information about prints and is active in publishing books and research
aids. The site also has information on: printmaking techniques, authenticity, the care of prints, the defintion of a
print, valuations - as well as online resrouces and references to selected publications.
Past Exhibitions
Maurice Denis
Musee d'Orsay- Paris
October 31, 2006 - January 21, 2007
No fewer than three
exhibitions invite you to explore the work of Maurice Denis who was the theorist of the Nabi movement and, alongside Vuillard and Bonnat, one of the most important painters in the
group.
His long career is traced through about a hundred paintings executed between 1889 and 1941, ranging from his audacious
little "icons" in the 1890s to the synthetic landscapes at the end of his life, via three great decorative cycles, including
the Histoire de Psyché [Story of Psyche] (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) which is back in France for the first time in over
a century.
Maurice Denis's contribution to book illustration is also displayed with a set of drawings for Paul Verlaine's Sagesse and for Fioretti by St Francis of Assisi.
Finally, a more private aspect of Maurice Denis
emerges in the photographs he took of his family and friends. The subjects and composition of these snapshots reveal many parallels with his painting.
Maurice
Denis' circle of friends extended to all fields of art, as a series of concerts and a literary cafe in January will show. A colloquium devoted to this paradoxical artist, on 17 and 18 November, will raise the question of his modernity and his "anti-modernity".
Click below for more information from the museum...
Pierre Bonnard, L'oeuvre d'art, un arret du temps
Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville
Paris
February 2 - May 7, 2006
The first exhibition mounted for the reopening of the newly rennovated Museum of
Modern Art of the city of Paris. The Bonnard exhibition is the first since the MOMA exhibition in 1998, in which Bonnard
was compared to Matisse. This retrospective exhibition includes portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, interiors, nudes
and as well as garden scenes. Bonnard's work presents images of the familiar world, but images that encourage the viewer
to look and see everyday objects and scenes with a fresh eye
"Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre"
The National Gallery of Art - Washington, D.C.
March 20- June 12, 2005
The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago
July 16 - October 10, 2005
"The ambivalent glamour and decadent spirit of the Parisian district
of Montmartre at the turn of the 20th century is the subject of this major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art
in Washington, D.C. Over 250 works primarily by Lautrec will be on display - including paintings, drawings, posters,
prints, sculptures, zinc silhouettes from the Chat Noir shadow plays and other printed ephemera. His predecessors and
contemporaries - Degas, Manet, Bonnard, van Gogh, Picasso and Cheret - are also represented in the exhibition. "
The show travels to The Art Institute of Chicago on July 16 and remains
there through October 10, 2005. These are the only two venues in the United States.
Please visit the National Gallery's and the Art Institute's website
for much more information on the exhibition, the era and artists.
National Gallery of Art - Washington D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
"Window Facing East: The Japanese Influence on European and American
Prints: A Gift from Edward Tyler Nahem."
Legion of Honor - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
29 January - 30 April 2005
"Drawn from the recent gift of more than 75 works from
distinguished New York dealer Edward Nahem, this exhibition explores the explosion of Japanese aesthetic influence in the
West after 1853. Commodore Matthew Perry negotiated a trade treaty in this year that ended two centuries of Japanese
isolation, prompting intensive international trade in Japanese art and artifacts. The exhibition includes lithographs,
etchings and woodcuts - created by a diverse group of artists from the United States and Europe - that demonstrate the richness
and variety of the Western responses to Japanese art." (from Members' Guide to Programs, January/February/March 2005)
"Daumier to Lautrec: French Prints and Drawings" -
Portland Art Museum - July 31, 2004 - October 24, 2004.
"Building on the success of the 2002 special exhibition "Paris to Portland",
this exhibition continues Portland's love affair with 19th-century French art. Taking as its centerpiece the Elles
lithographic series by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - the generous gift of local private collectors - this exhibition traces
the intriguing and often entertaining depiction of French society by some of France's greatest artists."
