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US $25 The Global Journal of Prints and Ideas July – August 2016 Volume 6, Number 2 Cécile Reims • Theodore Roszak • Ellen Lanyon • Degas Draws Mary Cassatt • Peter Milton • Beauty and Mathematics Women, Prints and History • Alternative Publishing in the 21st Century • Conservation • Spring Auction Report • News Art_in_Print_8.25x10.75_v2_ExpoChgo 6/9/16 10:04 AM Page 1 THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CONTEMPORARY & MODERN ART 22-25 SEPTEMBER 2016 CHICAGO | NAVY PIER PARTICIPATING GALLERIES Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona EXPOSURE Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York San Francisco, New York PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City 11R, New York AND NOW, Dallas Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York R & Company, New York Alden Projects™, New York Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles ANDREW RAFACZ, Chicago ARCADE, London Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich Regen Projects, Los Angeles ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles Bortolami, New York Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Garzón Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica Los Angeles The Breeder, Athens David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles rosenfeld porcini, London DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin Browse & Darby, London Pearl Lam Galleries, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles Edel Assanti, London Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Lugano Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore Salon 94, New York half gallery, New York CarrerasMugica, Bilbao Landfall Press, Inc., Santa Fe Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin The Hole, New York Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Horton Gallery, New York London, Paris, New York Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami Florence, Pietrasanta Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles casati gallery, Chicago MACCARONE, New York, Los Angeles Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago Kimmerich, Berlin David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach Matthew Marks Gallery, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills Josh Lilley, London Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables New York, Los Angeles Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv Marlborough, New York, London, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis LUCE GALLERY, Torino CONNERSMITH., Washington, DC Madrid, Barcelona Jessica Silverman Gallery, MARSO, Mexico City Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago Marlborough Chelsea, New York San Francisco MIER GALLERY, Los Angeles CRG Gallery, New York The Mayor Gallery, London Sims Reed Gallery, London On Stellar Rays, New York Alan Cristea Gallery, London McCormick Gallery, Chicago Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Louis Stern Fine Arts, ROBERTO PARADISE, San Juan Crown Point Press, San Francisco San Francisco West Hollywood Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco Douglas Dawson, Chicago moniquemeloche, Chicago Allan Stone Projects, New York VAN HORN, Düsseldorf Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago nina menocal, Mexico City MARC STRAUS, New York WALDEN, Buenos Aires Flowers Gallery, London, New York Laurence Miller Gallery, New York Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona Kate Werble Gallery, New York Forum Gallery, New York, Beverly Hills Robert Miller Gallery, New York Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York Yours Mine and Ours, New York Honor Fraser, Los Angeles THE MISSION, Chicago Tandem Press, Madison Geary Contemporary, New York Gallery MOMO, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Munich Graphicstudio, Tampa Johannesburg, Cape Town team (gallery, inc.), Editions+Books Alexander Gray Associates, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York New York, Los Angeles devening projects + editions, Chicago New York Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel Galerie Daniel Templon, DOCUMENT, Chicago Richard Gray Gallery, MOT International, Brussels, London Paris, Brussels Paul Kasmin Shop, New York Chicago, New York Carolina Nitsch, New York Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco No Coast, Chicago Christopher Grimes Gallery, David Nolan Gallery, New York Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York only photography, Berlin Santa Monica Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Stockholm Vallarino Fine Art, New York Other Criteria, New York, London GRIMM, Amsterdam Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco Various Small Fires, Los Angeles The Pit, Los Angeles Kavi Gupta, Chicago Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles RENÉ SCHMITT, Westoverledingen Hacket | Mill, San Francisco Claire Oliver Gallery, New York Projects, Los Angeles Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Dubai ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles P.P.O.W , New York Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna PACE, New York, London, Beijing, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York Hong Kong, Paris, Palo Alto Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Peres Projects, Berlin David Zwirner, New York, London HOSTLER BURROWS, New York Galerie Perrotin, New York, Paris, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Hong Kong, Seoul New York, Zürich POLÍGRAFA OBRA GRÀFICA, Barcelona expochicago.com Presenting Sponsor July–August 2016 In This Issue Volume 6, Number 2 Editor-in-Chief Susan Tallman 2 Susan Tallman On Visibility Associate Publisher Kate McCrickard 4 Julie Bernatz Engraving for Herself and Others: Cécile Reims Managing Editor Isabella Kendrick Christina Weyl 10 Ellen Lanyon: The Objects of Her Obsession Associate Editor Julie Warchol Linda Konheim Kramer 16 The Lithographs of Theodore Roszak Manuscript Editor Prudence Crowther Whitney Kruckenberg 23 Degas’ Etchings of Mary Cassatt at Editor-at-Large the Louvre and the Aesthetics of Process Catherine Bindman Michael F. Marmor and Peter Milton 27 Design Director The Ocular Vision and Aesthetic Visions Skip Langer of Peter Milton Reviews Julie Warchol 31 Truth, Beauty and Mathematics Britany Salsbury 34 Women Printmakers at the New York Public Library Janina Ciezadlo 36 Corey Hagelberg’s Calumet Area of Concern Matthew A. Coleman 37 Printmaking and Digital Technology in Portland Megan N. Liberty 39 Self-Publishing in the 21st Century On the Cover: Cécile Reims, detail of plate from Les Métamorphoses (1957–8), suite of Angela Campbell 43 15 engravings. Edition of 25. Printed by André Paper, Conservation and Context Moret, Paris. Published by Cécile Reims, Lacoux, France (1959). ©Musée Jenisch Vevey—Cabinet Marlen Börngen 45 cantonal des estampes, collection de la Ville Conservation of a Paper Dress de Vevey / clichés Barbara Piovan et Mauro Magliani. Prix de Print, No. 18 48 Juried by Marc Schwartz dreams for the recruit 103 This Page: Simon Donaldson, detail of by Carey Maxon Ampère’s Law from Concinnitas (2014), a portfolio of ten aquatints. Edition of 100. Printed New York Auctions Spring 2016 50 by Harlan & Weaver, New York. Published by Parasol Press, Portland, OR, in collaboration News of the Print World 53 with the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London. Art in Print 3500 N. Lake Shore Drive Suite 10A Chicago, IL 60657-1927 www.artinprint.org Art in Print is supported in part [email protected] by awards from the 1.844.ARTINPR (1.844.278.4677) National Endowment for the Arts. No part of this periodical may be published Art Works. without the written consent of the publisher. On Visibility By Susan Tallman here is a certain joy in organizing conveyance of the individual and the T thematic issues for this journal— mass, though in entirely abstract terms. watching how artists and writers breathe In book reviews, Megan Liberty reports life into a topic through unexpected on three recent volumes that address the research, vantage points and tangents. recent history and present state of artists’ But unplanned issues, such as this one, books, zines and other forms of alterna- offer a different, serendipitous pleasure. tive publishing, especially the strategies We don’t direct, we simply wait and leave they employ to remain invisible to stan- it to the reader to draw inferences or dard inventory systems while pursuing detect trends among the scatter of closely other types of distribution. studied works and events. In these cases, Reviewing recent exhibitions, Janina the Editor-in-Chief is simply one of those Ciezadlo writes on Corey Hagelberg’s readers, and the array of connections that social and environmental portrait of a I might see are personal and contingent— particular Great Lakes biome, while Mat- just one option among many. thew Coleman looks at the interaction of Among the essays presented here I binary code (not visible in itself, of course) was struck with how many touched on Claude Mellan, detail of The Veil of St. Veronica and the printing template (a mechanism questions of visibility and invisibility in (1649), engraving. 17 x 12 1/2 inches. of visibility) in the work of artists at both the optical sense (what we can see) Portland’s Upfor Gallery. and the cultural sense (what we choose different lives and made very different Finally, reminding us that the physi- to see). work, yet they share a fascination with cality of art objects resides in properties In the most unusual of them, art- illusion, transparency and the syntax of we cannot see, as well as those we can, ist Peter Milton and ophthalmologist the printed image in all its poetic and his- this issue includes two pieces