Maryland Printmakers

FYI
(Archived version from March, 1998 - click here for current)

Robert Brown Gallery 2030 R St. NW, Washington, D.C.  Etchings, Lithographs and woodcuts by Kathe Kollwitz, from April 14-May 28.

1998 Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair Print Fair Preview Reception Saturday, April 18, 5-8 p.m. $50 per person, includes admission on Sunday.

The 1998 Print Fair will be Sunday, April 19, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 per person, includes Museum admission ($5 BMA Members) Information/Reservations: Prints, Drawings & Photographs, 410-396-6345.

The BMA's ninth annual Contemporary Print Fair promises to be a special opportunity to view and purchase original works by today's leading artists. Among the participating dealers and publishers are Aaron Fine Arts, Brooke Alexander Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, Matthew Marks Gallery, Marlborough Gallery, Karen McCready Fine Art, Numark Gallery, and Susan Sheehan Gallery. The Fair is sponsored by the Museum's Print & Drawing Society. The Preview Reception is sponsored by Sotheby's. All proceeds will be used to purchase contemporary prints and drawings for the Museum's collection.

Exhibitions: Lee Newman will be organizing a juried show for the Maryland Printmakers at the Parents Association Gallery in the Adele Stamp Student Union of the University of Maryland, College Park, from June 30-August 4, 1998. The exhibit will take place during the International Piano Competition hosted by the University of Maryland. A prospectus will be forthcoming in the spring.

The 1997 Traveling Folio was exhibited at the Lee Arts Center in January and February.

Jane Eddy reassembled the "Point of Origin" show for exhibition at the Sandy Springs School from November-December 5. Kay McCrohan sold a print during the show.

Wanted to Buy: A Printing Press. Any size will be considered, pre-used or new. Call 301-596-4180. Will pay cash.

Fairview College is organizing the "Summer '98 International Non-Toxic Printmaking Master Workshops," to be held at the Canadian School for Non-Toxic Printmaking, Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta, Canada. Six workshops will take place from July 14-August 2, 1998. Registration deadline is June 15, 1998. Each workshop is limited to 10 participants. For more information contact: website-http://www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/workshops.html or the workshop hotline-Joan Isaac at 403-624-4616 or fax 403-624-4532 or e-mail: jisaac@ FAIRVIEWC.AB.CA

Prints from Utrecht February 4-April 5. Prints from Utrecht at the Baltimore Museum of Art-as well as Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age at the Walters Art Gallery-coincides with the International Conference of the Historians of Netherlandish Art to be held in Baltimore in March. Participants will discuss the theme of the conference, "Art and Place," focusing particularly on Utrecht. The exhibition has been organized by Susan Dackerman, Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, and is supported by the BMA's Homer and Martha Gudelsky Foundation Endowment. The prints published in Utrecht display a range of subjects and styles. Some of the earliest prints produced in Utrecht were engraved by Hendrik Goudt and are notable for the profound effect they had on his countryman Rembrandt. Crispin de Passe and his family immigrated to Utrecht in 1612; the de Passe publishing business, which issued nearly two thousand prints, flourished in the city for thirty years. The Bloemaert family of artists also produced numerous prints after both their own and other artists' designs. They transformed complex allegorical subject matter into images easily understood by a general audience. The Utrecht Caravaggisti, Dutch artists who traveled to Italy to study painting, also played an important role in the printmaking history of the city, introducing Italian art to others working in Holland.