master printmaker
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Master printmakers or master printers are specialized technicians who hand-print editions of works of an artist in printmaking.{{Cite web|last=Abrams|first=Loney|date=November 2, 2016|title=How Do Today's Art Stars Make Prints? Master Printer Erik Hougen Explains an Intimate Form of Collaboration|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/meet-the-printing-press-master-printer-erik-hougen-on-the-intimacy-of-collaboration|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Artspace|language=english}} Master printmakers often own and/or operate their own printmaking studio or print shop. Business activities of a Master printshop may include: publishing and printing services, educational workshops or classes, mentorship of artists, and artist residencies.
The role of the specialist printers mostly emerged from the 18th century onwards. Previously artists in printmaking mostly printed their own prints, as for example Rembrandt did; he had a printing press for etchings and engravings in his house. For woodcuts the blockcutter had long been a specialist artisan, sometimes famous. Printing of lithographs from the 19th century on has normally been a specialist process.
Training for master printmakers varies by technique, geography, and culture. Master printmakers are almost always trained by other master printmakers.{{Cite web|title=Master printer (title)|url=http://www.briarpress.org/12489|access-date=2021-07-24|website=briarpress.org}} The Tamarind Institute is one formal institution mandated to train master lithographers, located in New Mexico. In the 20th century in Britain there was a federation of master printers called the British Printing Industries Federation, renamed the British Federation of Master Printers (BFMP) in the 1930s and then again renamed the British Printing Industries Federation in the 1970s.{{Cite web|title=British Printing Industries Federation, 1905-1995|url=https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/BPI|access-date=2021-07-24|website=mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk|publisher=The University of Warwick|language=en-gb}}
Notable people
= Contemporary, mostly Americans =
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- Peter Braune of New Leaf Editions, Vancouver, Canada.{{Cite web|title=New Leaf Editions|url=https://www.newleafeditions.com/|access-date=2021-07-24|website=New Leaf Editions|language=en-US}}
- Kathan Brown of Crown Point Press in San Francisco, California.{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Kathan Brown|url=https://art.famsf.org/kathan-brown|access-date=2021-07-24|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}}
- Kathy Caraccio of K. Caracio Etching Studios.{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=T. Victoria |title=Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990 |date=1995 |publisher=H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University |location=New York |isbn=9780810937437 |pages=48–49}}
- Alfonso Crujera of the Electro-Etching Residency-Workshop, Gran Canaria, Spain.{{Cite web|title=About the Residency {{!}} Alfonso Crujera|url=http://www.en.crujera.com/residency/about-the-residency-2.html|access-date=2021-07-24|website=en.crujera.com}}
- Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions, Oakland, California.
- Sheila Marbain established the Maurel Studios in 1955.{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=T. Victoria|title=Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990 |date=1995 |publisher=H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University |location=New York |isbn=9780810937437 |pages=44}}
- Barry Moser of Pennyroyal Press, Easthampton, Massachusetts.
- Catherine Mosley collaborated with Robert Motherwell from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.{{cite web |title=Robert Motherwell and Catherine Mosley: A 20-Year Collaboration in Printmaking |url=https://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/calendar/view/1695/ |website=The Feminist Art Project |access-date=4 February 2023}}{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=T. Victoria |title=Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990 |date=1995 |publisher=H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University |location=New York |isbn=9780810937437 |page=49}}
- Lothar Osterburg of Lothar Osterburg Photogravure, New York City, New York.
- Andrew Raftery of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
- Peter Rutledge Koch of Peter Koch Printers of Berkeley, California{{Cite web|last=Berry|first=John D.|date=2021-06-28|title=Nothing Impresses Like Letterpress|url=https://www.altaonline.com/culture/art/a35621448/west-coast-letterpress-printshops/|access-date=2021-07-31|website=Alta Online|language=en-US}}
- Brian Shure of Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado.
- Judith Solodkin, Solo Press.{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=T. Victoria |title=Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990 |date=1995 |publisher=H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University |location=New York |isbn=9780810937437 |page=50}}
- Richard Spare of Wellington Studios, London.
- Donn Steward, Universal Limited Art Editions.{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=T. Victoria |title=Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990 |date=1995 |publisher=H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University |location=New York |isbn=9780810937437 |page=39}}
- Kenneth E. Tyler of Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New York{{Cite book|last=Castleman|first=Riva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93EuNanT4Y0C|title=Seven Master Printmakers: Innovations in the Eighties, from the Lilja Collection|date=1991|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-190-0|language=en|page=12}}
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= Historical master printmakers, mostly American =
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- Clinton Adams of the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Garo Antreasian of the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Martin Barooshian of Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York City, New York
- Leonard Baskin of The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Robert Blackburn of Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York City, New York
- Warrington Colescott of Mantegna Press of Hollandale, Wisconsin
- Aldo Crommelynck of Atelier Crommelynck of Paris
- Ernest de Soto of de Soto Workshop, San Francisco, California
- Sidney B. Felsen of Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California
- Frederick Goulding of Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, London, England.
- Stanley Grinstein of Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California.
- Tatyana Grosman of Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), West Islip, New York.
- Stanley William Hayter of Atelier 17, Paris, France.{{Cite web|last=Farrell|first=Jennifer|date=December 6, 2016|title=Expanding Possibilities: Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/ruminations/2016/workshop-and-legacy-stanley-william-hayter|access-date=2021-07-24|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
- Józef Hecht
- Irwin Hollander of Hollander’s Workshop, New York City
- Lynton Richards Kistler of Los Angeles, California.
- Karel Klíč of Vienna, Austria.
- Giovanni Mardersteig of Officina Bodoni Press, various locations in Europe.
- Krishna Reddy of Atelier 17, Paris, France.{{Cite web|title=Krishna Reddy|url=https://artpublicmontreal.ca/en/artiste/reddy-krishna/|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Art Public Montréal}}
- Jack Stauffacher, of Greenwood Press, San Francisco, California
- Birgit Skiöld of The Print Workshop, London
- Dox Thrash of Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.{{Cite web|title=Art of Dox Thrash|url=https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/art-of-dox-thrash/|access-date=2021-07-24|website=Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia}}
- June Wayne of the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico.{{Cite news|last=Grimes|first=William|date=2011-08-27|title=June Wayne, Painter and Printmaker, Dies at 93|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/arts/june-wayne-painter-and-printmaker-dies-at-93.html|access-date=2021-07-24|issn=0362-4331}}
- Anna Wong of the Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York City
- Kurt Zein of Werkstatt für hangedruckte Originalgrpahik, Wien / Workshop for handprinted original graphics, Vienna
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