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Introduction

Working the Stone

Process & Progress of Lithography
December 19, 1997 - April 5, 1998

In 1798 when Alois Senefelder, a Bavarian actor and playwright, invented what we now call lithography as a way to reproduce musical scores and play scripts, he probably never dreamed that the process would become as popular as it did. Within a few years of the first patent in 1799, Senefelder established printshops and trained lithographic technicians in Germany, England and France. Noted for its ability to reproduce the drawn mark in all its variety, this complex procedure of "stone writing" was readily adopted by artists and industry alike. Today lithography is still a major force in the fine arts, while a modified version continues to dominate the commercial printing industry.

Selected Objects

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George H. Chinnock, manufacturer

The Great American Centennial Exhibition Puzzle Blocks, 1876

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Edward Lear, designer

Bracciano, 1841
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Grant Wood, designer

Approaching Storm, 1940
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Philippe Auguste Hennequin, designer

The Flood, ca. 1818
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Louis Hersent, designer

la Fiancée du Roi de Garbe, 1818
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Louis Hersent, designer

Choix de Sujets Tirés des Contes de Jean La Fontaine, 1818

W. Schumm, designer

A Region on the Main, 1800s

Sam Gilliam, designer

Fire, 1972
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Georges Rouault, printmaker

De Profundis, 1929

Eugène Isabey, designer

Environs of Dieppe, 1833
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Eugène Delacroix, printmaker

Weislingen Attaquè par les Gens de Goetz (Act.I, Sc.III) (Weislingen Attacked by Goetz's Men), 1843

Edgar Degas, designer

Standing Nude Woman, Dressing, 1890
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Louis Hersent, designer

La Courtisanne Amoureuse, 1819
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Richard Parkes Bonington, designer

Street of the Large Clock, 1824
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Honoré Daumier, designer

The Mother of the Debutante, 1864

Paul Gavarni, designer

The Domino Game, I Pass, 1846

Joseph E. Norman, designer

Self Portrait, 1986

George Wesley Bellows, printmaker

Allan Donn Puts to Sea, 1923
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Louis Hersent, designer

Le Remede, 1819
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Paul Signac, designer

Saint-Tropez:Le Port, 1898

Edouard Vuillard

La Couturière (The Dressmaker), 1895
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Charles Parsons

Providence and Stonington Steamship Co's Steamer Rhode Island of the Providence and Stonington Lines, 1882
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Louis Hersent, designer

Le Petit Chien Qui Secoue de l'Argent et des Pierreries, 1818
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault, printmaker

The English Farrier, 1821

Käthe Kollwitz, designer

Self-Portrait, 1934
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Sandro Chia, designer

Children's Holiday, 1984
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Mabel Dwight, designer

Queer Fish, 1936

David Hockney, designer

Celia in a Green Hat, 1984
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Jasper Johns, designer

Two Maps II, 1966
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Baron Antoine Jean Gros

A Mamluk Chief on Horseback, Calling for Assistance, 1817
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Edvard Munch, designer

The Sick Girl: The Artist's Sister, 1896
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Louis Hersent, designer

Les Rémois, 1819
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George Ashdown Audsley, designer

Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Mediaeval Styles, 1882
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Louis Hersent, designer

Comment l'Esprit Vient aux Filles, 1819
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Oskar Kokoschka

Job, 1917
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Henri Fantin-Latour, designer

Liberty, 1890

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Vija Celmins

Galaxy, 1975
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Vija Celmins

Untitled Portfolio, 1975
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Max Josef Wagenbauer, designer

Landscape, 1807

Vija Celmins, designer

Desert, 1975

Vija Celmins

Ocean, 1975

Vija Celmins, designer

Sky, 1975

Eugène Carrière

Méditation, 1893

Odilon Redon, printmaker

Cellule Auriculaire (Auricular Cell), 1894
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Louis Lozowick

Tanks #3, 1930

Robert Rauschenberg

Post Rally, 1965
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Louis Hersent, printmaker

Mazet de Lamporechio, 1818
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Louise Nevelson, designer

Untitled, 1967
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Jules Dupré, designer

Pasture of the Limousin Region, 1835
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Pierre Bonnard, designer

Child in Lamplight, ca. 1897
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830
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Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Galerie Théatrale, ca. 1830

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Divan Japonais, 1892-1893
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Cham

Révolver-Martinet à 36 Charges pour Tuer le Temps en 1859, 1859
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Carle Vernet, designer

The Aging Lion, ca. 1825
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Grace Hartigan

Inside - Outside, 1962

Reginald Marsh

Penn Station, 1929

Jim Dine

Spray Painted Robe, 1977

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, designer

Making the Engine, 1917

Johann Nepomuk Strixner

St. Barbara, 1811-1816

Wassily Kandinsky

Orange, 1923

Henri Grevedon, designer

Portrait of S.A.R. Madame La Duchesse de Nemours, 1843
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James Rosenquist, designer

Forehead I, 1968
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Charles Joseph Hullmandel

The Art of Drawing on Stone; Giving a full explanation of the various styles, the different methods to be employed to insure success, the modes of correcting and the several causes of failure, 1835

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Nocturne, The Thames at Battersea, 1878

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Dibersion de España (Spanish Entertainment), 1825

Romare Howard Bearden, designer

Tidings, 1973
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Honoré Daumier

The Sleep of France (Repos de la France), 1834
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Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, designer

Death of a Soldier, 1817-1818

Rodolphe Bresdin

Le Bon Samaritain (The Good Samaritan), 1861
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Alice Neel, designer

Nancy, 1977

Édouard Manet, designer

Civil War, 1871
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Joseph Pennell

Making Armour Plate, 1916

Benjamin West

Angel of the Resurrection, 1801
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Louis Hersent, designer

L'Hermite, 1818
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Gustave Doré, designer

The Frost, 1857
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Pablo Picasso, designer

Head of a Young Girl, 1949
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Baron Pierre Narcisse Guérin, designer

The Vigilant One, 1816

Henri Matisse, designer

The Fox, 1929
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Thomas Hart Benton, designer

Haystack, 1938
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Antoni Tàpies, designer

Untitled, 1965
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Louis Hersent, designer

Joconde, 1818

Maurice Denis

Maternité devant la Mer, 1900

Henri Fantin-Latour

The Embroiderers, 1898
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Louis Hersent, designer

Le Tavetier, 1819
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Rufino Tamayo, designer

Watermelons, 1949
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, designer

A Reader, 1822

Paul Gauguin, printmaker

Baigneuses Bretonnes (Bathers in Brittany), 1889

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, designer

The Tall Bridge, 1878

Monogrammist G.R., designer

A Dog, 1803

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