Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press

June 8-September 1, 1997

Overview: This exhibition consisted of 122 prints made at Crown Point Press between 1965 and 1997. The artists included John Cage, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, Wayne Thiebaud, and others. The show was selected from the National Gallery's collection and the Crown Point Press Archive at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In Washington, the exhibition celebrated the Gallery's acquisition of more than 200 etchings and woodcuts from Crown Point Press, including numerous proofs with artists' notations. This was the first exhibition available as a feature on the Gallery's Web site.

The show was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with the National Gallery of Art. Curators were Steven A. Nash, associate director and chief curator, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Karin Breuer, associate curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and Ruth E. Fine, curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery.

Attendance: 34,543 (92 days)

Location: East Building, Ground Floor, Northwest

Catalogue: Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, by Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, and Steven A. Nash. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

Web site: The first virtual tour on the Gallery's Web site was created for this exhibition. This tour allowed users to navigate through panoramas of the exhibition galleries, select specific prints for larger image views, and close-up details. Wall text and label information from the exhibition was also available alongside each image view. Related Online Resources

Other venue:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

October 4, 1997-January 4, 1998

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