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![An orange etching of a windmill in front of a body of water.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC457205_4x3_1.jpg?itok=Zt6nETK_)
Print History in 1892: Exhibition Catalogue
This is an ongoing effort to create an illustrated version of Sylvester Koehler’s 1892 exhibition. For the first time ever, this archival document is…
![Artist Toshiko Takaezu sits among her works of pottery and looks out the window.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC459050_16x9.jpg?itok=zaTT1qXH)
Born in Hawaii to parents of Okinawan ancestry, Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her…
![Black contour line drawings of abstract shapes resembling fruit, branches, and leaves against a white background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC315332_SC315331_SC315351_16x9.jpg?itok=UHuukYle)
“Since birth we get accustomed to seeing and thinking at the same time. But I think that if you can turn off the mind and look at things only with…
Koehler and the Development of Print Culture in the United States
Sylvester Rosa Koehler was born on February 11, 1837, in Leipzig, Germany, to an artistically inclined family of musicians. In 1849, Koehler, still a…
Selected List of Exhibitions Organized by Sylvester Koehler
1881, April 11–May 9, “Exhibition of American Etchings,” MFA Boston. 1882, “Louis Prang and Co. Lithographic Prints and Tools,” United States National…
Selected Bibliography of Sylvester Koehler
Bezold, Wilhelm von. The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry . Translated by Sylvester Rosa Koehler. Boston: Louis Prang & Co…
![A repeated composite photo of a man in a black coat and black top hat.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC457157_16x9.jpg?itok=rV7G-JLD)
Sylvester Koehler: Exploring Print History
Resurrecting an 1892 exhibition on printing, anchored by a digital reproduction of its foundational catalogue.
![Four screen prints of traditional Indigenous outfits—one blue, one yellow, one green, and one red—all with metallic foil and cross decorations.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SCs426440-3_16x9%20%281%29.jpg?itok=tG8d1DNk)
Resilience often manifests in work by Indigenous North American artists, for example in its content or simply by increasing visibility to combat…
![An impressionist painting of an empty beach with five piers below a purple sky.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC462537_16x9.jpg?itok=BB3sdNZ5)
In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his…
![A still from a video about iridescent Jell-O.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-09/SC462775_16x9_V1.jpg?itok=X-lUo8fm)
Jell-O’s presence in contemporary art is an extension of its visual and cultural history. Since its invention in 1897 the cheap yet luxurious pantry…