October 2019 - AHPCS

New Gustave Baumann Catalogue Raisonné

October 25, 2019

AHPCS members will be pleased to learn of a new publication cataloging the work of German-American color-woodcut artist Gustave Baumann (1881-1971): In A Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, A Catalogue Raisonné (September 2019). One of the highlights of the 2016 AHPCS annual meeting in Santa Fe, Mexico, was the opportunity to view... Read the full article

Lucrative Racism

October 15, 2019

After the printmaking firm of Currier & Ives closed in 1907, its remaining lithograph stones were sold by the pound and most of their images ground away to make way for new designs—except for a set of Darktown Comics stones. These stones were used to print lithographs in a long-running series of racist cartoons ridiculing... Read the full article

A “Once-in-a-Lifetime” Exhibit

October 1, 2019

“Once in a lifetime!” is how one AHPCS member describes “Beyond Midnight,” the new Paul Revere exhibit showing at the New-York Historical Society from September 6, 2019, through January 12, 2020. The statement isn’t hyperbole—exhibit curators (and AHPCS members) Lauren Hewes and Nan Wolverton of the American Antiquarian Society have been able to bring together... Read the full article