Category: Prints and Printmaking

Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are collaborative artists working in woodblock prints, and are also husband and wife. Tugboat Printshop is their online store and gallery. The site not only showcases their work but is in large part devoted to process, and details various aspects of the creation and production of their prints. Their work…

Meloncolia I, Albrecht Dürer. One of the most iconic engravings by one of art’s great printmakers, Melelcolia (an archaic spelling of melancholia) is filled with symbols of alchemy and carpentry (architecture), along with various measuring tools, an hourglass, a polyhedron and a “magic square” — the rows of which add up to 34 in all…

Sherrie York is a Colorado artist who works primarily in the medium of reduction linocut. This is a relief printing method in which the run of a given print is done in stages of impressions from the same block —as the block is re-cut and reduced in printing surface to be printed in a different…

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow has placed online a catalog of their collection of Japanese Prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can browse through sections for landscapes, beauties, actors, warriors, sumo wrestlers, flowers and birds. You can also browse by artist or school, and there are additional reference materials.…