Legendary Prints From Landfall Press Archive 2025-12-16 Auction - 82 Price Results - TC Art Auctions in NM
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Santa Fe, NM, United States
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Legendary Prints From Landfall Press Archive

Landfall Press is widely known as the first institutional print shop in America. Master Printer Jack Lemon, who had assisted Thomas Hart Benton, started the press at the Kansas City Art Institute. He then moved Landfall to Chicago, where it established itself as one of the top presses in history. Later, Lemon moved the press to Santa Fe, where he continued helping artists achieve their dreams in printmaking, until last year. Jack Lemon is now 90, and as asked our organization to oversee the sale of his archive and remaining print inventory. We've opened a Landfall Press Print Center, where scholars and curators can come study Landfall's legacy. We are honored to offer you some of the finest prints ever created anywhere, in this auction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian, Art Institute of Chicago, and too many other major museums to mention here all proudly hold Landfall prints in their collections. Landfall was the first to publish lithographs by Kara Walker and Chuck Close. Landfall was the first to help Christo and Jean Claude make lithographs that included "wrapped" objects in relief in the print. Landfall published the major Chicago Imagists. Luis Jimenez treasured the prints he created at Landfall, and Judy Chicago made her finest lithographs at Landfall. Artists like Nick Cave, William Wiley, HC Westermann, and many more worked with Landfall on their prints. Don't miss the opportunity to collect art historically important prints from one of the most innovative and beloved print publishers of all time.
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