1962-2022: A Celebration: 60 Prints for 60 Years
1962-2022: A Celebration: 60 Prints for 60 Years, currently on view in the Crown Point Gallery, celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of Crown Point Press. Over the years, since 1962, the Press has been located in four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area: Berkeley, Richmond, Oakland, and San Francisco. It has published prints by 113 artists and Kathan Brown, the founding director, still comes to work regularly. 60 Prints for 60 Years is a testament to printmaking, to the artists who created the prints, and to the Crown Point staff who make their work possible.
Though the prints on view are part of a larger whole, they provide a sense of Crown Point鈥檚 history over the past 60 years. Categorized by decades, the exhibited 1960s prints are by Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, and Robert Bechtle. These artists' etchings were the first published by Crown Point Press and they include three images from 41 Etchings Drypoints (1964) by Richard Diebenkorn; three images from the bound book, Delights (1965) by Wayne Thiebaud; and four etchings from 1967 by Robert Bechtle.
In the late 1950s, Kathan Brown studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts, and it was there that she became enamored of etching. During an end-of-term vacation in Scotland, she admired an old etching press in the backyard of the rooming house where she and her friends were staying. The landlady gave Brown the press, and she took it home on a freighter from Glasgow to San Francisco through the Panama Canal. It was 1959. Brown set up the press in a friend鈥檚 studio, and used it along with a few artist friends. In 1962, she moved, with the press, to Richmond, California and started Crown Point there. Her equipment was a typewriter and a hand-cranked etching press. She worked alone with her toddler son underfoot, helping artists make prints. A friend brought Richard Diebenkorn to her workshops, and Crown Point published 41 of his etchings in 1964.
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1962-2022: A Celebration: 60 Prints for 60 Years, currently on view in the Crown Point Gallery, celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of Crown Point Press. Over the years, since 1962, the Press has been located in four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area: Berkeley, Richmond, Oakland, and San Francisco. It has published prints by 113 artists and Kathan Brown, the founding director, still comes to work regularly. 60 Prints for 60 Years is a testament to printmaking, to the artists who created the prints, and to the Crown Point staff who make their work possible.
Though the prints on view are part of a larger whole, they provide a sense of Crown Point鈥檚 history over the past 60 years. Categorized by decades, the exhibited 1960s prints are by Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, and Robert Bechtle. These artists' etchings were the first published by Crown Point Press and they include three images from 41 Etchings Drypoints (1964) by Richard Diebenkorn; three images from the bound book, Delights (1965) by Wayne Thiebaud; and four etchings from 1967 by Robert Bechtle.
In the late 1950s, Kathan Brown studied at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts, and it was there that she became enamored of etching. During an end-of-term vacation in Scotland, she admired an old etching press in the backyard of the rooming house where she and her friends were staying. The landlady gave Brown the press, and she took it home on a freighter from Glasgow to San Francisco through the Panama Canal. It was 1959. Brown set up the press in a friend鈥檚 studio, and used it along with a few artist friends. In 1962, she moved, with the press, to Richmond, California and started Crown Point there. Her equipment was a typewriter and a hand-cranked etching press. She worked alone with her toddler son underfoot, helping artists make prints. A friend brought Richard Diebenkorn to her workshops, and Crown Point published 41 of his etchings in 1964.
Artists on show
- Al Held
- Alex Katz
- Alyson Shotz
- Anish Kapoor
- Anne Appleby
- April Gornik
- Brad Brown
- Brice Marden
- Bryan Hunt
- Chris Burden
- Chris Ofili
- Christopher Brown
- Chuck Close
- Darren Almond
- Ed Ruscha
- Edmund Bechtle
- Elaine de Kooning
- Eric Fischl
- Francesco Clemente
- Gay Outlaw
- Günter Brus
- Hamish Fulton
- Hans Haacke
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Iain Baxter
- Jacqueline Humphries
- Jockum Nordström
- John Baldessari
- John Cage
- John Zurier
- Karin Mamma Andersson
- Kathan Brown
- Katsura Funakoshi
- Laura Owens
- Laurie Reid
- Li Lin Lee
- Marcel Dzama
- Markus Raetz
- Mary Heilmann
- Mary Weatherford
- Pat Steir
- Patricia Treib
- Rammellzee
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Richard Tuttle
- Robert Bechtle
- Robert Kushner
- Robert Mangold
- Shoichi Ida
- Sol LeWitt
- Tom Marioni
- Tomma Abts
- Vito Acconci
- Wayne Thiebaud
- William Brice
- William T. Wiley
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