Stone + Press | Stone + Press Artists
Peter Ilsted
Wed 21 May 2008 03:52:02 PM PDT(Danish, 1861-1933)
Ilsted was one of the few Danish artists to have worked in mezzotint and the only member of the "Copenhagen Interior School" who loved and collected prints.
He began creating prints as a student at the Academy in 1882. By 1909, he had abandoned etching and devoted his time exclusively to mezzotint. Ilsted's warm regard for Dutch genre painting of the 17th century influenced his art as much as his appreciation of the orderly, deserted interiors painted by his celebrated brother-in-law, Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916). Ilsted also learned from Whistler about the rich nuances of greys and he often released both black and white versions of an image from the same plate.
His prints are imbued with a sublime light which he creates through his grounding methods, the use of chine colle', and selective wiping techniques during the inking process.
Peter Jogo
Wed 21 May 2008 03:52:19 PM PDT(American, b. 1948)
Born in Deposit, New York, Jogo pursued his education at the State University of New York at Albany and Cornell University from which he received his Master of Fine Arts degree. He now lives and works in western Pennsylvania which has provided the inspiration for many of his nocturnes.
His mezzotints, pastels and watercolors have earned many exhibition awards including the Strathmore Award for Watercolor Excellence from the Butler Institute of American Art, purchase awards from the Pratt Graphics Center, DeCordova Museum, the North Carolina Print and Drawing Society, the University of Wisconsin and the Print Club of Philadelphia.
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Raphael Soyer
Wed 28 May 2008 05:09:16 PM PDT(American, 1899 - 1988)
Born in Russia, Raphael along with his brothers Isaac and Moses learned drawing from their father. Raphael later studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union and the National Academy. He has been honored with many solo exhibitions including a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Soyer was awarded membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His works are in the permanent collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery. Soyer had a distinguished career as a printmaker, painter, teacher and author.
Reynold Weidenaar
Wed 28 May 2008 05:09:26 PM PDT(American, 1915-1985)
Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he studied at the Kendall School of Design. He also studied with Jackson Lee Nesbitt at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1938 to 1940. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1944 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany scholarship in 1949. He was elected to the National Academy in 1949 and was later raised to full acadamician status. The grants allowed Weidenaar to travel and record his impressions of other countries, particularly Mexico.
He created 212 prints, working primarily on copper with all the intaglio processes. But it is his devotion and sensitivity to mezzotint that has resulted in a unique and lasting contribution to a medium which was at the time neglected. His works have won numerous prizes and are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Nelson-Atkins and the Library of Congress.
Richard Sadler
Wed 28 May 2008 05:09:39 PM PDT(English, b. 1927)
Born in Coventry, England, Sadler trained in photography at the studios of Edward Eves in Leamington Spa. He has been involved in photographic education as a consultant and examiner and has enjoyed a long commercial practice. However, his chief interest has always been in the photograph as art. He has taught photography at the Coventry College of Art, the Derby College of Art and was course leader in Photographic Studies at the Derbyshire College of Higher Education.
Sadler's photographs are in the Victoria & Albert Collection, the Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford and the Center for Creative Photography founded by Ansel Adams in Tucson, Arizona USA.
Currently, Sadler serves as chair of the contemporary photography group of the Royal Photographic Society.
Rockwell Kent
Wed 21 May 2008 03:52:21 PM PDT(American, 1882-1974)
Born in Tarrytown Heights, New York, Kent sought adventure in remote parts of Alaska, Greenland and New Foundland. He studied art at Columbia University with William Merritt Chase and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Kent wrote and illustrated many books with his woodcuts and woodengravings.
A leading figure of America's left, Kent was very popular and well collected in the former Soviet Union. His wood engravings depict a stylized and idealized art deco image of man.
Roger Medearis
Wed 21 May 2008 03:52:27 PM PDT(American, 1920-2001)
The son of a Baptist minister, Medearis was born in Fayette, Missouri and later moved to Miami, Oklahoma. He studied with regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and John DeMartelly at the Kansas City Art Institute. Medearis remained friends with Benton, and often swapped technical secrets with Tom.
During World War II, Medearis supported the war effort by drafting the finest topographic maps and charts for field artillery and naval air force units. In his professional years as a business executive, Medearis devoted little time to his art, but returned to painting and lithography in 1960s and created rural scenes in delicate tones reminiscent of his earlier works.
Ronau Woiceske
Wed 28 May 2008 05:09:45 PM PDT(American, 1887 - 1953)
Born in Bloomington, Illinois, Ronau Woiceske first studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Art. In 1924, he and his family moved to Woodstock, NY where he studied painting with John Carlson and lived the remainder of his life. Woiceske taught himself to etch and eventually he took on students including Emil Ganso. Elizabeth McCausland wrote that "instead of just making a cold winter landscape by using the white of the paper to suggest snow, as many etchers do, Woiceske used aquatint over the already etched plate like a wash of tone." His work is in the permanent collections of many museums including the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, the Los Angeles Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Steve Dohanos
Wed 14 May 2008 02:09:01 PM PDT(American, 1907-1994)
Dohanos, a native of Ohio, studied at the Cleveland Museum Art School and later under the master of lithography, Stow Wengenroth.
He created fine art that gloried in the beauty of the everyday object or situation. He also created illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, producing more than 125 magazine covers between 1943 and 1959. He is second only to Norman Rockwell in the number of covers produced for the Post. He was elected to the Hall of Fame of the American Society of Illustrators.
Stow Wengenroth
Wed 28 May 2008 05:09:55 PM PDT(American, 1906-1978)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Wengenroth spent his life recording the beauty and serenity of his region. He studied at both the Art Students League and with Wayman Adams at the Grand Central School of Art. He produced his first print in 1931, a year in which he began his association with master printer, George Miller. That relationship lasted 30 years and helped to make the reputation of both men.
Wengenroth is considered a master lithographer because of his impeccable craftsmanship and the rich tonalities for his landscapes. Andrew Wyeth once called Wengenroth "America's greatest artist working in black and white."
