About Stone and Press Gallery
Stone & Press features fine prints and drawings, especially American works of the early 20th Century along with contemporary images by master printmakers of today. We invite clients to view our collection on our website or by appointment. As members of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), we participated in the New York Print Fair for 14 years. We researched and published the catalogue raisonne’ on both Frederick Mershimer and Jackson Lee Nesbitt. We collaborated with Carol Wax to curate the exhibition "Classical and Contemporary Mezzotints" at the ...Read More
Featured Pieces
La Espera (The Wait -- Three Women by the sea)
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Wait. Three native Mexican women wait by the sea. This impression is #31/100. An impression of this lithograph is in the permanent collection of Boston's Museum of Fine Art.
F...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Goodbye to Monkeys I
By Hugo Wilson
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is #10 from an edition of only 20.
Hugo Wilson is a British artist who works across a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. He w...
Category
2010s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Confident (profile of young nude girl with wisps of hair on her neck)
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusively for Stone and Press Gallery. The 2004 black and white mezzotint was issued in an edition of on...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Fir Play
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax origi...
Category
2010s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
From the Ponte Vecchio, Florence Italy
By John Taylor Arms
Located in New Orleans, LA
Here Arms depicts an icon of the Forence skyline -- the bridge over the River Arno It is illustrated in "John Taylor Arms / Plates of Perfect Beauty" by Jennifer Saville, Honolulu A...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Foggy Night
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint, Engraving
Doe Bow
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
A series of prints was commissioned by the Met Museum in NY in a regular edition of 40 This impression is from an edition of 5 artist proofs. This impression is #4/5
Carol Wax origi...
Category
2010s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Seated Man with Cap (coffee shop)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mastery is a word seldom heard today in the hallowed halls of the arts. Striving for technical excellence, a life-time self-teaching quest, the great game which once represented the ...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Remington Strip Tease
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Remington Strip Tease had a black iron dome covering the moving parts and suppressing noise. It is presented in a light that suggests a monument. It is from an edition of 60 and is...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Rollin (A self portrait of the artist as seen thru water droplets )
By Rollin Leonard
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rollin is a self portrait of the artist. At first it looks like a color abstract. Then very slowly you realize it is an extreme close up of a young man's face. Only slowly do the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Garden Gate (a brownstone gate on St. John's Place in Brooklyn)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick Mershimer created this image of a "Garden Gate" level of a brownstone on St. John's Place in Brooklyn in 2004. It is #87 in the catalogue raisonne by Retif & Salzer and is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Mezzotint
Carbonrel
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression was created in 1977 and is #20 out of edition of25
Anne Dykmans employs her superb command of engraving techniques, especially mezzotint, to create a special light w...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
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