Stow Wengenroth was once called: “America’s greatest artist working in black and white” by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth. He is generally considered to be one of the finest American lithographers of the 20th Century. Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 25, 1906 to Frederick Wengenroth , an architect, and Isabelle Stow, a […]
Charles Capps, James Swann and the Prairie Print Makers
By Jim Rosenthal In 1946 Charles Merrick “Chili” Capps knew as much about the running of a print association as anyone. He was one of the founders of the Prairie Print Makers. He served as Secretary-Treasurer of that organization from 1940 to 1942 and was serving at that time as President. He also was a […]
The Prairie Print Makers Presentation Prints – Over Three Decades of Print Making Excellence
The Prairie Print Makers was organized in Wichita, Kansas in 1930 with ten charter members: Lloyd Foltz, Arthur W. Hall, Norma Bassett Hall, C. A. Seward, Birger Sandzen, Charles M. Capps, Edmund Kopietz, Herschel Logan, Clarence A. Hotvedt and Leo Courtney William Dickerson was invited to join and was elected as the first Artist Member […]
A Collector’s Must Read – “Small Victories” by Dave H. Williams
“Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled Collection of American Prints” by Dave Williams (Boston: David R. Godine, 2015) is a great read for any collector. The book chronicles the “small victories” of Dave and Reba Williams in collecting over six thousand prints. It is not a book about art although there […]