Crown Point Press in the ’80s

January 9 - March 7, 2020

In 2020, as Crown Point Press moves into its fifty-eighth year, the first exhibition in its gallery looks back to the 1980s. In the ’80s women had big hair and shoulder pads. John Lennon was shot; the Iran-Iraq war began; the fax machine, Pac Man, and domestic camcorders appeared. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, replaced Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, as President. The economic unrest of the 1970s had gradually shifted toward an era of extravagance. In the ’80s, many artists worked in large-scale. Painting was influenced by advertising and entertainment.

Crown Point Press in the ’80s includes etchings made at Crown Point in the ’80s and also woodcuts from the Japan and China programs. The artists are: Vito Acconci, Robert Bechtle, John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Tony Cragg, Elaine de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Eric Fischl, Joel Fisher, Helen Frankenthaler, Hamish Fulton, April Gornik, Hans Haacke, Al Held, Robert Hudson, Bryan Hunt, Shoichi Ida, Joan Jonas, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Tom Marioni, Robert Moskowitz, Judy Pfaff, Janis Provisor, Rammellzee, Ed Ruscha, David Salle, Italo Scanga, José Maria Sicilia, Richard Smith, Pat Steir, Wayne Thiebaud, David True, and William T. Wiley.

Join us in the Crown Point gallery for a conversation among Crown Point Press founding director Kathan Brown, conceptual artist Tom Marioni, and Berkeley Art Museum adjunct curator Connie Lewallen, all of whom were actively engaged with Crown Point in the 1980s.
Wednesday, March 4
5:30-7:30 PM

Press Release

Three Flags for 1 Space and 6 Regions
Vito Acconci, Three Flags for 1 Space and 6 Regions, 1979-81
Color photoetching on six sheets of paper.
51½ x 62"; 70½ x 62½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Nancy Anello.
$45,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Sunset Intersection
Robert Bechtle, Sunset Intersection, 1983
Color soft ground etching in three panels on one sheet of paper.
22 x 49¾"; 32¼ x 59¾". 35.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$12,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Where R=Ryoanji: R2/1
John Cage, Where R=Ryoanji: R2/1, 1983
Drypoint.
7 x 21½"; 9¼ x 23¼". 25.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$12,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Where R=Ryoanji: R2/2
John Cage, Where R=Ryoanji: R2/2, 1983
Drypoint.
7 x 21½; 9¼ x 23¼. 25.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$12,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Where R=Ryoanji: R2/3
John Cage, Where R=Ryoanji: R2/3, 1983
Drypoint.
7 x 21½; 9¼ x 23¼. 25.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$12,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Where R=Ryoanji: 2R + 13.14
John Cage, Where R=Ryoanji: 2R + 13.14, 1983
Drypoint.
7 x 21½; 9¼ x 23¼. 25.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$12,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Untitled
Francesco Clemente, Untitled, 1984
Color woodcut.
14 x 20"; 16¾ x 22½". 200.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto.
$8,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Laboratory Still Life No. 1, State 2
Tony Cragg, Laboratory Still Life No. 1, State 2, 1988
Aquatint with spit bite aquatint printed in black and red.
11¾ x 13¾"; 22¾ x 23¾". 30.
Crown Point Press and Mark Callen.
$5,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Les Eyzies
Elaine de Kooning, Les Eyzies, 1985
Color sugar lift aquatint with aquatint.
24 x 36"; 30 x 34". 35.
Crown Point Press and Peter Pettengill.
$6,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Green
Richard Diebenkorn, Green, 1986
Color spit bite aquatint with soap ground aquatint and drypoint.
45 x 35¼"; 53¾ x 41½". 60.
Crown Point Press and Marcia Bartholme.
$530,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Two Way
Richard Diebenkorn, Two Way, 1982
Soft ground etching with drypoint.
24 x 15"; 40 x 26½". 35.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$7,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Untitled
Eric Fischl, Untitled, 1988
Color woodcut.
9½ x 10½"; 17 x 16½". 200.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto.
$4,000    InquireInquire
Responsibility (Horizontal)
Joel Fisher, Responsibility (Horizontal), 1980
Sugar lift aquatint with hard ground etching.
40 x 42"; 40 x 42". 15.
Crown Point Press and Lilah Toland.
$3,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Cedar Hill
Helen Frankenthaler, Cedar Hill, 1983
Color woodcut.
20¼ x 24¾; 20¼ x 25. 75.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto.
$ 25,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Porcupine
Hamish Fulton, Porcupine, 1982
Color soft ground etching with aquatint and photoetching printed on three sheets of paper.
93¼ x 22¾"; 94 x 23½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Paul Singdahlsen.
$8,500    InquireInquire
Charente
April Gornik, Charente, 1988
Color woodcut.
18 x 24"; 22¾ x 28". 100.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto.
$4,800 fair market value    Unavailable
Upstairs At Mobil: Musings of a Shareholder
Hans Haacke, Upstairs At Mobil: Musings of a Shareholder, 1982
Color photoetching printed on ten sheets of paper.
71 x 105" overall; 16 x 20" each. 10.
Crown Point Press and Hidekatsu Takada and Nancy Anello.
$40,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Out and In
Al Held, Out and In, 1987
Color aquatint .
35 x 44½"; 40½ x 52½". 50.
Crown Point Press and Renée Bott.
$15,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Out of Orbit
Robert Hudson, Out of Orbit, 1987
Color aquatint with spit bite and sugar lift aquatints, hard ground etching and drypoint.
18 x 17¾"; 28½ x 28". 35.
Crown Point Press and Lawrence Hamlin.
$2,500    InquireInquire
Navigator 3
Bryan Hunt, Navigator 3, 1988
Color soap ground aquatint.
44¾ x 27¾"; 54 x 36". 25.
Crown Point Press and Renée Bott.
$6,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Garden Project–Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain–Between Vertical and Horizon
Shoichi Ida, Garden Project–Wood, Paper, Fire and Rain–Between Vertical and Horizon, 1986
Color woodcut.
29 x 21"; 29 x 21". 100.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Double Wheel
Joan Jonas, Double Wheel, 1982
Color aquatint.
24 x 36"; 24 x 36". 20.
Crown Point Press and Peter Pettengill.
$4,000    InquireInquire
Untitled (III)
Anish Kapoor, Untitled (III), 1988
Color spit bite aquatint with aquatint.
35 x 44½"; 42 x 51½". 20.
Crown Point Press and Lawrence Hamlin.
$10,000 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
Black Shoes
Alex Katz, Black Shoes, 1987
Color aquatint with soft ground etching.
12 x 16¾"; 22½ x 29". 60.
Crown Point Press and Doris Simmelink at Jeryl Parker Editions, New York.
$5,800 fair market value    Unavailable
San Francisco Victorian
Joyce Kozloff, San Francisco Victorian, 1981
Color hard and soft ground etching with drypoint, aquatint, spit bite aquatint and embossing.
23½ x 32"; 23½ x 32". 25.
Crown Point Press and Paul Singdahlsen.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Daphne I
Robert Kushner, Daphne I, 1985
Color woodcut.
29 x 22½"; 32¼ x 25". 150.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda.
$4,000    InquireInquire
Barcham Green Portfolio No. 4
Sherrie Levine, Barcham Green Portfolio No. 4, 1986
Photogravure with aquatint printed in gold.
19 x 15"; 31 x 22½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Hidekatsu Takada.
$6,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Crownpoint
Sol LeWitt, Crownpoint, 1980
Bound book of photoetchings; 40 pages.
each image 2½ x 2½"; 11 x 11". 25.
Crown Point Press and Kevin Parker.
$10,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Peking
Tom Marioni, Peking, 1987
Woodcut printed on silk mounted on rag paper.
21 x 9½"; 27¼ x 20½". 30.
Crown Point Press and Rong Bao Zhai.
$2,500    InquireInquire
Six of One - Tatoes
Judy Pfaff, Six of One - Tatoes, 1987
Color woodcut.
39½ x 57"; 43 x 62". 15.
Crown Point Press and Lawrence Hamlin.
$10,500 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
Long Fall
Janis Provisor, Long Fall, 1989
Color woodcut printed on silk mounted on rag paper.
19½ x 14"; 32½ x 22". 70.
Crown Point Press and Ji Qiz Heng, woodblocks carved by Jian Ming, and transformed by Liu Wei Fan at the Duo Yun Xuan Studio, Shanghi.
$2,000 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
Palladium Protractor, Chase to Assassination, (Gothic Futurism)
Rammellzee, Palladium Protractor, Chase to Assassination, (Gothic Futurism), 1984
Color sugar lift and spit bite aquatints with drypoint and soft ground etching.
24 x 36"; 24 x 36". 35.
Crown Point Press and Peter Pettengill.
$6,500 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub
David Salle, Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub, 1987
Color woodcut.
18 x 24"; 24¾ x 29½". 100.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda at Shi-un-do Print Shop, Kyoto.
$4,500    InquireInquire
Listening to T.M.
Italo Scanga, Listening to T.M., 1981
Drypoint with hard ground etching printed in red.
16 x 5"; 30 x 22½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Nancy Anello.
$800    InquireInquire
Fleur Rouge III
Jose Maria Sicilia, Fleur Rouge III, 1988
Color drypoint with spit bite and soap ground aquatints and aquatint printed on gampi paper chine collé.
18 x 12"; 30¼ x 22¾". 25.
Crown Point Press and Renée Bott.
$2,500    InquireInquire
Coup de Theatre
RIchard Smith, Coup de Theatre, 1985
Color soft ground and hard ground etching with spit bite aquatint and aquatint.
36 x 24"; 40 x 30½". 15.
Crown Point Press and Hidekatsu Takada.
$3,000    InquireInquire
When I Think of Venice
Pat Steir, When I Think of Venice, 1980
Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints with aquatint, drypoint and hard ground and soft ground etching.
36 x 48"; 42 x 55¼". 35.
Crown Point Press and Hidekatsu Takada.
$9,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Apartment Hill
Wayne Thiebaud, Apartment Hill, 1985
Drypoint printed on gampi paper chine collé.
24 x 18"; 31¼ x 23¾". 35.
Crown Point Press and Peter Pettengill.
$9,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Fragile Wings
David True, Fragile Wings, 1989
Color woodcut.
15½ x 20"; 20¾ x 25". 100.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda, woodblocks carved by Shunzo Matsuda.
$2,000    InquireInquire
Eerie Grotto? Okini
William T. Wiley, Eerie Grotto? Okini, 1982
Color woodcut.
21 x 27"; 22½ x 29½". 200.
Crown Point Press and Tadashi Toda.
$6,500    Unavailable

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