DELUXE EDITION WITH THE SIGNED AND NUMBERED ETCHING “LE QUAI D’ORLEANS”
Lynn Shaler: Fine Prints 1972-2017 is the first book to document Lynn Shaler’s 250 fine prints and includes essays by art historians, a master printer, people who know her personally, and the artist herself. The book includes images and information on all of the fine prints she has created since 1972. It is available in two editions.
The Deluxe Edition is cloth-bound and presented in a cloth-covered clam-shell case. It is accompanied by a signed, numbered etching, “Le Quai d'Orléans.” It is available at Gallery 71 for $1500 plus tax,. It can also be ordered by phone (212) 744-7779 for $1500 plus shipping and handling.
The book is also available without the print, in a regular edition (unboxed).
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Many of Lynn Shaler’s etchings have been inspired by locations in the city of Paris where she has been living for over 30 years. Her work has evolved in both subject matter and technique since her early etchings of objects like doorknobs, clocks, theater exits, stacks of plates, and shoes. Today her interior etchings are often of finely furnished interiors, open doorways, balconies or open windows looking out on the city of Paris, or beautifully lit stairways. Her exterior etchings include both day and evening scenes that capture the essence of neighborhood streets, buildings, bridges, and reflections on the Seine. She creates the majority of her etchings with three or four copper plates, using the techniques of hard-ground line and aquatint. The resulting prints are beautifully detailed and rich in color with subtle variations in tone.
Lynn Shaler’s work can be found in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in 1979. In 1984, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue post-graduate study in printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris.
Diana Stork (ed.) Lynn Shaler: Fine Prints 1972 - 2017. Scheidegger & Spiess. 2018
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Across the Decades: A Selection of Shaler Etchings
Catalogue Raisonné: Images of all 250 Fine Prints along with title, year, size, technique, and paper
The book’s editor and an essayist, Diana Stork (Ph.D.), is a former college professor and organizational consultant who transitioned to a portfolio career, taking on a variety of writing projects and consulting activities. This book was the major focus of her time and energy between 2016 and 2018. Diana has collected Shaler etchings for many years, buying her first one in 1992. She and Lynn became friends through Alfred Gonzalez (Gallery 71). She eagerly learned a lot about etching, aquatint, Paris, and publishing in the process of managing this book project.
Contributing Authors:
Kathy Caraccio is a master printer, artist, teacher and curator. In 1977, she founded the K. Caraccio Printing Studio in New York City. More than three hundred artists have editioned in the studio. Today, K. Caraccio Studio also houses a collection of more than 4.000 prints. Kathy’s work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of California. She has taught printmaking at a number of art schools, including NYU, Columbia University, Pratt Institute. She and Shaler co-authored the essay, “In the Artist’s Studio.”
Alfred González has been part of the New York art world since 1982, when he began working at Newmark Gallery. In 1994, he founded Gallery 71, where he continues to exhibit and sell the work of Lynn Shaler and a number of other contemporary artists, in an array of different visual media. Alfred is also an accomplished photographer and is one of the Gallery's newest artists. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the 911 Memorial Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Historical Society and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
Nancy Mowll Mathews (Ph.D.) is a well-known art historian, professor, curator, and well-published author. From 1988 to 2010, she was the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art at Williams College. She has authored a large number of scholarly journal articles and published books on Mary Cassatt and Paul Gauguin, as well as the catalogue raisonné of the works of Maurice and Charles Prendergast. She curated the major retrospective, "Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist in Paris," which opened in the spring of 2018 at the Musee Jacquemart-Andre in Paris.
Gérard Sourd was a Head Curator at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and Editor-in-Chief of "Nouvelles de l'estampe" from 1990 to 2010. This journal is a scholarly publication issued under the authority of the Prints and Photography Department. Gérard Sourd has served as a juror for many artistic competitions. Currently, he is Honorary Head Curator, Department of Prints and Photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Reba White Williams (Ph.D.) is a well-known expert on fine art prints. She has shared this expertise as an author, philanthropist, and exhibition organizer. Reba and her husband, Dave Williams, built the world’s largest private collection of fine art prints by American artists. In 2008, they donated more than 5,000 fine art prints to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.