Portland Fine Print Fair 2016

Sponsored in part by Graphic Arts Council of the Portland Art Museum; Framing Resource; Copyman; Karen Varnhagen, Morgan Stanley; Pamela Berg; and Quickbird Creative; Wine for the Benefit Preview donated by . Media partner: Printed Editions
Own a Masterpiece!
You are invited to attend the Portland Fine Print Fair, now in its third year in the historic Fields Ballroom. Peruse and purchase prints from 18 top dealers from across North America. These knowledgeable art dealers welcome your questions, whether you are a first-time collector or a seasoned connoisseur. European, American, and Japanese 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 Northwest’s largest and most comprehensive print fair.
Opening Night Preview
a benefit for the Print Department of the Portland Art Museum
Friday, January 29, 6-9 p.m.
Join us for an exclusive preview of the prints for sale before the fair opens to the general public. Enjoy passed hors d’oeuvres, wine, and priority purchasing from 18 dealers exhibiting fine prints from Old Master to contemporary. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit the activities and acquisitions of the Department of Prints & Drawings.
Free Admission
Saturday, January 30, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, January 31, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Concessions
Treats from Batter Bakery available for purchase Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Participating Galleries
- THE ANNEX GALLERIES
www.annexgalleries.com
Santa Rosa, CA
+Established in 1971, the Annex Galleries inventory includes works from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries with a focus on American printmaking from 1900 to 1975. Our specialties include color woodcut, modernist prints, abstract expressionist prints of the 1940s and 1950s, WPA, and works created at Atelier 17 in New York and Paris. Through numerous catalogues on California prints created between 1900 and 1950, we have illustrated California’s important niche and artistic contributions to the history of American printmaking. Our broad interests have created our inventory which consists of over 8,000 works on paper, half of which are on this website. Other areas of interest include European, Japanese, and Hispanic prints as well as photography.
- THE ART OF JAPAN
www.theartofjapan.com
Medina, WA
+The Art of Japan’s combined experience of over 75 years of collecting and dealing in Japanese prints places us in the top tier of dealers in Japanese prints and paintings worldwide. The term “Shin-Hanga,” or new print, was originally coined in 1915 by Shosaburo Watanabe; this year we feature very rare and early prints from this early era of Shin Hanga. In addition, we will have a spectacular array of Japanese prints ranging from 1750-1950. Of particular interest are a large group of first state Hiroshige prints from the series “100 Views of Edo,” several very fine Utamaro prints, a collection of Yokohama prints and some really great Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi prints. We have the finest selection of Japanese prints for sale in the US, Europe, and, I would even venture to say, Japan.
- AUGEN GALLERY
www.augengallery.com
Portland, OR - AZUMA GALLERY
www.azumagallery.com
Seattle, WA
+A leading representative of modern Japanese print artists, Azuma Gallery also showcases contemporary Japanese art—screens, paintings, ceramics, and baskets. Bringing together Japanese and American artists working in both traditional and contemporary mediums, Azuma offers a unique mix of talents, mediums, and styles rarely found in the U.S. For over 34 years, Azuma has been featuring a distinctive collection of Japanese art influenced by folk art, representational landscape/ genre themes, and abstract expressionism for broad and discriminating audiences.
- CONRAD R. GRAEBER FINE ART
www.conradgraeber.com
Riderwood, MD - CROW’S SHADOW INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
www.crowsshadow.org
Pendleton, OR
+Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is a registered non-profit, located on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation outside of Pendleton, Oregon. Our mission is to provide a creative conduit for educational, social, and economic opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. We publish primarily lithographic limited editions through our artist-in-residence program, in collaboration with our Tamarind Master Printer, Frank Janzen. We work with established and emerging contemporary Native and non-native artists from across the United States, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest.
- DAVIDSON GALLERIES
www.davidsongalleries.com
Seattle, WA
+Davidson Galleries, located in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square, maintains the largest inventory of fine, original prints in the Northwest. In addition to our holding of nearly 20,000 prints and works on paper ranging from the 15th to the 21st century, new exhibitions are mounted every month for the First Thursday Gallery Walk. We are a proud member of the Seattle Art Dealer’s Association (SADA) and a charter member of The International Fine Print Dealers Association, a professional organization dedicated to maintaining high ethical standards for dealing in fine prints.
- EGENOLF GALLERY
www.egenolfgallery.com
Burbank, CA
+Egenolf Gallery specializes in fine Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, including works by the earliest 17th century pioneers of ukiyo-e to the shin hanga masters of the 20th century. We are pleased to offer interesting designs in exceptional condition over a broad range of prices. Clients include museums, private collectors and dealers in the US, Europe, and Japan. First-time buyers as well as established collectors are able to buy from us with confidence, knowing that all prints and drawings are guaranteed authentic and as described.
- JOEL R. BERGQUIST FINE ARTS
www.bergquistfinearts.com
Stanford, CA - KLEINPRINT
www.kleinprint.net
Van Nuys, CA
+Founded in 1995 by Henry Klein, Emeritus Professor of Art, Los Angeles Valley College, kleinprint was born of a passion for the graphic art of formerly Communist Central and Eastern Europe. Klein, professor of drawing and printmaking, artist/printmaker, art critic, curator, and art writer developed friendships with many artists in the region and curated numerous exhibitions of their work beginning in 1990 with Creativity in the Shadow of Political Oppression, the first U. S. exhibition of Czechoslovak prints to openly present the political subtexts of work produced in the Communist Era.
- LARRY WARNOCK FINE ARTS
www.warnockfinearts.com
Palm Springs, CA
+Warnock Fine Arts specializes in contemporary printmakers from Europe and the United States. Through travels in Europe , we continue to discover and bring back works by award-winning printmakers seldom seen in the United States. We also have an emphasis on Chicano and Hispanic printmakers from the United States and Mexico.
- LAWRENCE LITHOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
lawrencelitho.com
Kansas City, MO
+The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (TLLW) is dedicated to continuing the over 200 year old tradition of collaboration with artists to make original, hand pulled lithographs. Over time, the workshop expanded beyond contract printing to publishing regional and national artists. The shop has collaborated with many national and regional artists such as Roger Shimomura, Akio Takamori, Robert Stackhouse, Luis Jimenez, Alden Mason, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Ron Adams, Ed Paschke, Andrzej Zielinski, Susan Davidoff and many others.
- M. LEE STONE FINE PRINTS
www.mleestonefineprints.com
San Jose, CA
+M. Lee Stone Fine Prints has been an art dealer for over 40 years. We specialize in American works of art on paper. Our expertise covers the 20th and 21st centuries. Our focus is primarily representational art of important artists from the WPA, Depression Era, social commentary, industrial and cityscapes as well as men and women working. We also carry numerous other subjects in our general inventory and have an interest in African American artists.
- PAULSON BOTT PRESS
www.paulsonbottpress.com
Berkeley, CA
+Paulson Bott Press specializes in limited edition intaglio prints. The press emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich tradition of fine art printmaking. Paulson Bott Press’s philosophy is to facilitate rather than direct an artist, creating an environment where artists can do their best work.
- THE REN BROWN COLLECTION
www.renbrown.com
Bodega Bay, CA
+At the western end of Sonoma county, the Ren Brown Collection is a long-established and well-respected art gallery dedicated to showing contemporary art from both sides of the Pacific Ocean. A major focus of the gallery is on modern Japanese prints by living artists, including Toko Shinoda, Ryohei Tanaka, Yuji Hiratsuka, Iwao Akiyama, and others. The original prints are done in traditional woodblock, as well as more Occidental mediums, such as serigraphy, etching, stencil, and lithography–often on fine handmade papers. Subjects and themes vary widely, and images are both abstract and representational.
- R. E. LEWIS & DAUGHTER ORIGINAL PRINTS
www.relewis.com
San Rafael, CA
+Jan Lewis Slavid has ben a print dealer for 44 years, first as assistant to her father, R. E. Lewis, and then carrying on the business after he retired at the end of 1999. We have always specialized in Old Master to Modern prints and Indian miniature paintings. Our inventory currently includes many fine prints from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, with special examples of prints by Rembrandt, Durer, Tiepolo, Piranesi, Delacroix, Bonnard, Vuillard, Whistler, Villon and Kandinsky, among others. We are also very interested in German Expressionism.
- STONEY ROAD PRESS
www.stoneyroadpress.com
Dublin, Ireland
+Stoney Road Press is a fine art publishing house which since 2001 has been collaborating with Ireland’s leading contemporary artists to produce limited edition hand-made prints, books, sculptures and tapestries. Based in Dublin, Stoney Road Press is the only independent commercially run fine art print studio in Ireland.
- WILLIAM P. CARL FINE PRINTS
www.williampcarlfineprints.com
Durham, NC
+2016 represents 40 years in the business of buying and selling fine prints. We specialize in the period 1850 to the present with an emphasis on color woodcuts, American prints, Dutch, Belgian, and other fine European printmakers. Museums here in the U.S. and abroad are a significant part of our client base.