Peter Blum Edition
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Peter Blum Edition, is an American fine art print and artist book publisher, located in New York City. Peter Blum Edition was founded by Peter Blum in 1980,{{Cite book|last1=Wye|first1=Deborah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gZUKmJpmVQC|title=Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95|last2=Lowry|first2=Glenn D.|date=1996|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-124-5|pages=47|language=en}} where Blum had published numerous books and print editions with artists such as Barbara Kruger, Alex Katz, and Louise Bourgeois, among many others.{{cite book |last1=Tallman |first1=Susan |title=The contemporary print : from pre-pop to postmodern |date=1996 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London |isbn=9780500236840 |page=283}} The Peter Blum print edition projects range from single print to traditional portfolio to installation specific portfolio editions. The book projects are all limited edition and range from artist monographs to historical surveys to special editions that include original prints.
History
Since 1993, Peter Blum Edition has had gallery space (in Soho and Chelsea) in New York City.{{cite web |title=Peter Blum Edition, New York |url=https://www.moma.org/s/lb/collection_lb/ppbyid/ppbyid_ppid-12163-role_4_thumbs.html |website=Louise Bourgeois |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=5 April 2023}}
The Peter Blum Edition Archive has been exhibited twice in museums. The first museum exhibition was titled Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994 in 2006 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston located in Houston, Texas. It has been noted as the largest exhibition in North America devoted entirely to printmaking.{{Cite web|title = MFAH {{!}} Curatorial Departments {{!}} Prints & Drawings|url = http://www.mfah.org/art/departments/prints-and-drawings/|website = www.mfah.org|accessdate = 2015-09-11|first = The Museum of Fine Arts|last = Houston}} On the occasion of this exhibition a book of the same title was published by the museum.{{Cite web|title = Singular Multiples, with contributions by Faye Hirsch, Vincent Katz, Jeremy Lewison, Raphael Rubinstein, and Phyllis Tuchman|url = http://yalepress.yale.edu/bookprinter.asp?isbn=9780300114478|website = yalepress.yale.edu|accessdate = 2015-09-11|first = Barry|last = Walker}}
Soon after the exhibition in Houston, a selection of the edition archive was exhibited overseas at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland in 2007. The exhibition was titled Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York and was also accompanied by a book of the same title published by the Aargauer Kunsthaus.{{Cite web|title = Detail|url = http://www.aargauerkunsthaus.ch/en/shop/detail/?tt_products%255Bproduct%255D=149&tt_products%255Bbegin_at%255D=60&tt_products%255BbackPID%255D=343&cHash=b1952fe5482722967c1b280802f9ad8c|website = www.aargauerkunsthaus.ch|accessdate = 2015-09-11}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book |title=Scenes and sequences : Peter Blum Edition, New York : eine Auswahl von 1980 bis 2006 |date=2006 |publisher=Aargauer Kunsthaus |location=Aarau |isbn=978-3-905004-29-8}}