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INTERNATIONAL FINE PRINT DEALERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNER OF BOOK AWARD w/1 cut

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NEW YORK CITY — The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) recently announced the winner of its inaugural book award: Wendy Weitman, for her catalog Kiki Smith Prints, Books & Things, which accompanied her 2003 exhibition of the same name. The presentation was made to Weitman on November 6 at the 14th Annual Print Fair conducted at the Seventh Regiment Armory.

Weitman is curator in the department of prints and illustrated books at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she has worked since 1980. At MoMA she has curated a number of important monographic exhibitions on Twentieth Century and contemporary artists, including the work of Jasper Johns and Sol LeWitt. Other recent exhibitions and catalogs include Pop Impressions Europe/USA, the first major study of European and American printed art of this period; and most recently Weitman co-curated a large-scale traveling exhibition for the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, with an accompanying catalog titled Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 188O to the present.

In Kiki Smith Prints, Books & Things Weitman focuses on Smith the artist, and explores all facets of her printmaking career to date, from her earliest monotypes in the 1970s to her latest etchings in 2003. The panel agreed that the beautiful design and composition, the thorough documentation of the prints and the faithful reproduction of the images made it a wonderful reference book.

Mary Ryan, who reviewed this book commented, “It is not a typical book on prints which is appropriate since Smith is not a typical printmaker — she truly expands and sometimes explodes printmaking boundaries.” An additional bonus to this publication includes an artist’s book; several prints specially made by Smith are bound inside the volume.

Other highly commended entries included: Robert E. Getscher, An Annotated and Illustrated Version of Giorgio Vasari’s History of Italian and Northern Prints from His Lives of the Artists (1550 & 1568), Vol 1: Text, Vol II, Plates, The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, N.Y.); Jörg Maass, Ausgewählte Arbeiten auf Papier von Edvard Munch bis Gerhard Richter (selected Works on Paper from Edvard Munch to Gerhard Richter), Kunsthandel Jörg Maass, Berlin; and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Encouraging the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints is one of the main goals of the IFPDA Book Award. Each work is vetted by a jury selected according to the area of expertise that is most appropriate to the publication. The jury takes into account the contribution each submission made through the presentation of fresh ideas, original research and the creative interpretation of prior scholarship.

IFPDA will accept entries for the 2005 award early in the new year. Books, articles or catalogs on fine prints published during 2004 are eligible for consideration, but must be received no later than June 1. Entry instructions and award guidelines can be found at www.printdealers.com or call 212-674-6095 to receive a fax or mail copy. The award recipient will be announced in November at the 2005 International Fine Print Dealers Association Annual Meeting.

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Strawbery Banke Museum To Host ‘Craftsmen Series 2005’

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Strawbery Banke Museum will hold its third annual Craftsmen Series, a popular demonstration and discussion program, featuring professional furniture makers on four Wednesday evenings, February 9, 16, and 23 and March 2, at Stoodley’s Tavern.

Michael Dow, of York, Maine, will begin the series with a carving demonstration and presentation, “Exploring the Acanthus Leaf: History, Identification, and Carving.” The next three programs will feature two members of the renowned group, the New Hampshire Furniture Masters. On February 16, Tom McLaughlin of Canterbury, N.H., will unlock the “Secrets of Fine Finishing.” Ted Blachly from Warner, N.H., will present two sessions, “Hand Shaping” and “Workshop Techniques.”

Stoodley’s Tavern is on Hancock Street. Admission is $10 for museum members per workshop or $35 for the four-part series; $12 for nonmembers or $45 for the series. Preregistration is required. For information, 603-422-7526 or www.StrawberyBanke.org.