Metal relief etching mounted on wood block used to print the final illustration in Jerome Kaplan's White House Portfolio.This cut represents the NGS ID badge of Set Momjian, the official who worked with Philadelphia artist Jerome Kaplan to create the Portfolio for President Jimmy Carter for ceremonial distribution.
Engraving.Portrait of George Washington, standing, full-length, in black suit holding sword. Engraved by James Heath, Historical Engraver to His Majesty and to HRH the Prince of Wales from the original picture in the collection of the Marquess of Lansdown.
Barbara Latham (1896-1989) was a painter, printmaker, author and illustrator of children's books. Based in New Mexico, she also traveled extensively with her husband, artist Howard Cook, between 1928 and 1935. Latham employed a somewhat cubist style which grew more abstract by the 1950s.
Artists's book in red paper wrappers. Written, designed, and printed by Jenny Sapora, owner of the True Bug Press, Seattle, while she was a resident fellow at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY. Using the alphabet as an organizing device, the book brings together quotations and descriptions of women in printing and typography over time, from medieval nuns to contemporary artists. Pencil signed and numbered by the artist, number 20 in an edition of 120.
Engraving. The Execution of King Charles the First before the Banqueting House, Whitehall, January 30, 1648-9. Scene of crowd assembled to observe the beheading of King Charles I, set within a decorative frame. Published by Alex. Hogg, London.
Large folio tinted lithograph showing encampment with tents and formation of soldiers.
“Camp of Massachusetts 6th Regt. Vols., Suffolk, VA.” . Published by I.C. Eastman, Bookseller and Stationer, Lowell, Mass./From an original drawing in possession of Col. A. S. Bolla [?].
Mabel Dwight (1876-1955) created this lithograph as part of the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project in 1938. The Smithsonian acquired "Backyard" in 1941 as part of a government transfer of 54 prints in various media. The transfer of "Backyard" and other FAP prints came at a time when the Project was shifting its focus from fine-art printmaking to war-related posters.
Bertha Evelyn Jaques (1863-1941) traveled extensively in Europe and Asia. Her prints reflect these influences, especially from her time in Japan. Jaques helped found the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1910. At least twenty other etching societies, modeled on the CSE, were founded in the following two decades, which greatly impacted the development of printmaking in the United States.
Color lithograph in Art Nouveau style from Belgian publication. Female figure in floral landscape with small windmill in background, illustrating an excerpt of a poem by the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren, a founder of the Symbolist movement. Imprint on verso: Le Musee du Livre, Fascicules 43-46 - 1918. Original lithograph by Gerard Roosen; published by J. E. Goossens, Brussels.
