Summer Choices:
The Joy of Discovery

July 31 - September 9, 2020

Crown Point Press announces its annual group exhibition, Summer Choices: The Joy of Discovery, which presents a collection of prints emphasizing the lighthearted feeling of the summer season. During these challenging times, art reminds us that we are together in our desire to be inspired by joy. Although the prints in this exhibition broadly differ in technique and concept, they share underlying themes of beauty, curiosity, happiness, and light. Summer Choices highlights a diverse group of twenty-one artists including Anne Appleby, William Bailey, John Cage, Leonardo Drew, Eric Fischl, Robert Kushner, Sherrie Levine, Tom Marioni, Susan Middleton, Dorothy Napangardi, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Gay Outlaw, Markus Raetz, Ed Ruscha, Wilson Shieh, Shahzia Sikander, Pat Steir, Patricia Treib, Richard Tuttle, and John Zurier. We invite you to discover the connections for yourself. The exhibition is on view in the Crown Point Gallery from July 31 through September 8.

Press Release

Leonardo Drew, CPP3, 2015
Color aquatint with flat bite toner transfer.
16 x 13"; 25 x 22". 15.
Crown Point Press and Sam Carr-Prindle.
$3,000    InquireInquire
John Cage, Where There Is Where There Urban Landscape No. 41, 1987-89
From a series of 48 unique color aquatints with flat bite etching.
17 x 24"; 22¾ x 30".
Crown Point Press and Marcia Bartholme.
$8,000 fair market value    InquireInquire
Dorothy Napangardi, Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa 1 (Women’s Dreaming 1), 2004
Color soap ground and sugar lift aquatints.
23¾ x 17¾"; 31 x 24¾". 50.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Gay Outlaw, 3×3, 2019
Color soft ground etching with aquatint, drypoint, and spit bite and soap ground aquatints. Shaped color gampi and ink-jet printed gampi on orange gampi paper chine collé background.
23 x 21"; 33 x 30¾". 20.
Crown Point Press and Courtney Sennish.
$2,800    InquireInquire
Leonardo Drew, CPP4, 2015
Aquatint with flat bite etching printed in blue and black.
14½ x 9¼"; 23½ x 17¼". 15.
Crown Point Press and Sam Carr-Prindle.
$1,500    InquireInquire
Patricia Treib, Drape, 2018
Color sugar lift, soap ground and spit bite aquatints on gampi paper chine collé.
15 x 11¼"; 20¾ x 16½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Courtney Sennish.
$2,800 fair market value    Unavailable
Patricia Treib, Cuff, 2018
Color sugar lift and soap ground aquatints with aquatint.
15 x 11¼"; 20¾ x 16½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Courtney Sennish.
$2,800    InquireInquire
Markus Raetz, Binocular View, 2001
Photogravure printed in color.
20 x 25"; 22½ x 27¼". 60.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Shahzia Sikander, Orbit, 2012
Color direct gravure.
27 x 21¼"; 36 x 29½". 35.
Crown Point Press and Ianne Kjorlie.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Wilson Shieh, Swimmer, 2005
Color soft ground etching with aquatint printed on gampi paper chine collé.
11 x 8"; 20 x 16". 20.
Crown Point Press and Catherine Brooks.
$2,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Laura Owens, Untitled (LO425), 2010
Color soft ground etching with spit bite and sugar lift aquatints.
28¾ x 41¼"; 37¼ x 49¼". 10.
Crown Point Press and Asa Muir-Harmony.
$8,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Chris Ofili, Rainbow, 2008
Set of 12 spit bite aquatints with drypoint, each printed in a different color, 10 on gampi paper chine collé.
11 x 7"; 20 x 15". 10.
Crown Point Press and Catherine Brooks.
$28,000    InquireInquire
Richard Tuttle, Deep In The Snow, 2005
A wall construction of a large intaglio print with wooden supporting slat and a copper basket containing 12 smaller prints. The construction is designed to be hung unframed and reinforced by a Plexiglas backing sheet with wall mount..
varies; 32 x 28 x 3¾". 7.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$30,000    InquireInquire
William Bailey, San Marco, 1998
Hard ground etching on gampi paper chine collé.
7 x 6"; 17½ x 15". 20.
Crown Point Press and Daria Sywulak.
$1,500     InquireInquire
William Bailey, Magione, 2002
Hard ground and soft ground etching on gampi paper chine collé.
9 x 11"; 18 x 19". 20.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$2,500    InquireInquire
Pat Steir, Seascape, 1988
Color woodcut with hand painting printed on silk mounted on rag paper.
13 x 15¾"; 27 x 27½". 65.
Crown Point Press and Hu Quiyun at Duoyun Xuan Studio, Shangai.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Pat Steir, Kweilin Dreaming Part A-F, #C52, 1989
From a series of 89 color woodcuts with hand painting by the artist.
26½ x 33"; 37½ x 42¾".
Crown Point Press and Rong Bao Zhai Studio, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; supervised by Sun Shumei.
$8,500    InquireInquire
Robert Kushner, Black Jade, 1989
Color woodcut printed on silk mounted on rag paper.
28½ x 11¾"; 38 x 20¾". 35.
Crown Point Press and Cai Yan, Hangzhou.
$4,000 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
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
Susan Middleton, Naupaka (Front), 2008
Color photogravure.
16¼ x 16¼"; 29¼ x 26¼". 30.
Crown Point Press and Asa Muir-Harmony.
$3,000 fair market value    Unavailable
Susan Middleton, Naupaka (Back), 2008
Color photogravure.
16¼ x 16¼"; 29¼ x 26¼". 30.
Crown Point Press and Asa Muir-Harmony.
$3,000    InquireInquire
John Zurier, Drifting, 2016
Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints on gampi paper chine collé.
15 x 9½"; 22 x 15½". 15.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$3,000    InquireInquire
John Zurier, Pale Spring, 2016
Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints on gampi paper chine collé.
15 x 9½"; 22 x 15½". 15.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Anne Appleby, Cottonwood, 2012
Color aquatint with burnishing.
12 x 37½"; 23 x 47½". 20.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Anne Appleby, False Iris, 2012
Color aquatint with burnishing.
12 x 12¾"; 24½ x 24¼. 20.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Tom Marioni, Beer with Musical Friends, 2017
Color spit bite aquatint with aquatint and soft ground etching on gampi paper chine collé.
22 x 25"; 28½ x 31". 30.
Crown Point Press and Sam Carr-Prindle.
$4,500    InquireInquire
Ed Ruscha, Lonely Highway, 2019
Color direct gravure with aquatint.
15¼ x 24½"; 21¼ x 29½". 40.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$9,500    InquireInquire
Sherrie Levine, Barcham Green Portfolio No. 2, 1986
Color aquatint printed in black and tan.
19 x 15"; 31 x 22½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Hidekatsu Takada.
$6,000    InquireInquire