Four Contemporary Printmakers

FOUR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKERS MICHAEL W. ARIKE – WILLIAM J BEHNKEN ALLEN PETRULIS – EMILY TRUEBLOOD

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FOUR CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKERS

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MICHAEL ARIKE BILL BEHNKEN

I ALLEN PETRULIS I EMILY TRUEBLOOD

The Old Print Shop is featuring the work of four of our contemporary printmakers in this digital issue of Portfolio. These four artists, two women and two men, have been represented by The Old Print Shop for many years. Michael Arike is a master of color aquatint and etching. She uses multiple plates to create her images.

William (Bill) Behnken is a master of dark rich aquatints, although he also likes working in lithography. Allen Petrulis likes straight-line etching; his images are of New York City and New England. Emily Trueblood works in relief prints, both wood cut and linoleum cuts, using multiple blocks. A bio and a portrait of each artist will be found where his/her section of the catalogue begins.

The Old Print Shop began handling contemporary artists in 1992. We are proud to state that we currently represent over eighty contemporary artists who use printmaking as an expressive art form. Traditional printmaking is an old art form dating back in Europe to before 1440 and in China almost 2000 years. It includes relief, wood or linoleum cuts, wood engraving, and metal plate relief; intaglio, etching, engraving, mezzotint, roulette, stipple and other processes that carve a mark or line into a metal plate; lithography, drawn on stone or prepared metal plate; and serigraph, a stencil printing process. Modern techniques include digital. In all cases the artist works the medium of his/her choice to get the desired effect for the image being created.

THE COVER ILLUSTRATION: Michael W. Arike – City Night. Item 8 in this catalogue.

William J. Behnken – One Winter’s Night. Item 21 in this catalogue.

Alan Petrulis – The Pit. Item 24 in this catalogue.

Emily Trueblood – Capital Spring. Item 51 in this catalogue.

On the internet you can see all of our contemporary artists on our web site.

On the top navigation bar click “Shop” then on the left navigation bar click “Contemporary Artists.” All of our contemporary artists are listed is in alpha betical order by artist’s last name. Most artists will have a bio which you can view. There is also a link to the collection of prints, paintings, and sculptures available in the gallery. My preferred method is to come in and go to our second-floor gallery, where you can spend the day look directly at the works of art available. Unfortunately, at this time March-April, 2020 it appears the gallery will be closed due to the Coronavirus outbreak and the need for social distancing

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MICHAEL W. ARIKE Michael Arike was born in Oklahoma City, OK to an artist mother and engineer father.

She began art training at an

early age studying painting and drawing with Dick Goetz.

After attending public

schools through high school, she went to

Oklahoma

State

University

and

studied printmaking with Doel Reed on the advise of an artist friend of her mother.

On graduating with a BFA, she married Enn Arike, a world university scholarship student from Estonia. They moved to Chicago to continue his work on a Master’s Degree in Humanities at the University of Chicago and she began to study printmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago. After several years and the birth of two sons, they decided to move east to be nearer to his family. There, in New Jersey, their third son was born Michael began studying printmaking with John Ross at The New School in New York City. She also began a long career in commercial art, specifically making prototype clay models for Avon and Revlon for their figurative bottles and soaps. After moving to New Rochelle, NY, Michael began entering print shows. She joined the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA), serving on the

council

makers She

and

has

and

as

Vice

Audubon won

prizes

President.

She

also

Artists.

She

has

from

the

National

joined

received

Boston

numerous

Academy,

Printawards.

SAGA,

gold

and silver medals from Audubon Artists, awards from Center for Contemporary Graphics in Connecticut, and prizes from Creede Small Prints Exhibition. She began showing her work at The Old Print Shop in New York City where she had two 2-person shows, one in 2003 and another in 2009. The Smithsonian’s Small Treasures Series commissioned her for a print, as did Nelson-Atkins Print Club and the Print Club of Albany.

Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, the Portland Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, among others.

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1. Chelsea Morning. Color aquatint and etching, 2016. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 3 7/8 x 5 7/8” (9.9 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #91790 $175.00

2. The Castle & The Capitol. Watercolor, 2008. Signed in pencil in image lower right. Image size 6 1/8 x 8” (15.5 x 20.4 cm). Very good condition. #95879 $850.00

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3. Hotcakes. [New York.] Color etching and aquatint, 2015. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 5 7/8 x 8” (15 x 20.3 cm). Very good condition. #90084 $225.00

4. Pete’s, by the Brooklyn Bridge. Color aquatint and etching, 2013. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 5 13/16 x 8 7/8” (14.6 x 22.5 cm). Very good condition. #83097 $250.00

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5. Street Scene. [New York City.] Watercolor, 2008. Signed in pencil in image lower right.

Image size 4 x 6 1/16” (10.2 x 15.4 cm). Very good condition. #95877 $650.00

6. (left) Midtown. [New York City.] Watercolor, 2008. Signed in pencil in image lower right.

Image size 8 x 6” (20.5 x 15.1 cm). Very good condition. #95878 $950.00 7. (right) Empire at an Angle. Etching and aquatint, 2014. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 15/16” (22.7 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #86681 $250.00

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8. City Night. Color etching and aquatint, 2014. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 5 7/8 X 7 7/8� (14.9 X 20 cm). Very good condition. #85372 $225.00

9. South Street Seaport. Color etching and aquatint, 2010. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 11 7/8 x 17 3/4� (30.3 x 45.1 cm). Very good condition. #68813 $600.00

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10. Silvercup. [Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge.] Multi-plate color etching and aquatint, 2007.

Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 5 7/8 x 8 15/16” (14.9 x 22.7 cm).

Very good condition. #45333 $250.00

11. (left) Reflected City. Color aquatint and etching, 2013. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 8 7/8 x 5 7/8” (22.5 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #83095 $250.00 12. (right) Sentinels. Color etching and aquatint, 2016. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 6 13/16 x 5 15/16” (17.5 x 12.5 cm). Very good condition. #90760 $200.00

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WILLIAM J. BEHNKEN William J. Behnken was born in New York City in 1943.

He graduated from the

High School of Music and Art and received his BA and MA from the City College of New York.

Behnken has

taught drawing and printmaking at the Provincetown Art Association and the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, and he is currently an Instructor in

printmaking

at

the

Art

Students

League and teaches Art History and Drawing at the City College of New York.

Behnken is a member and former president of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and is an elected member of the National Academy of Design. His work has won many awards and can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New-York Historical Society, Mississippi Museum, New York Public Library, among others. He has also been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally; and his other honors include being an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa and The Boston Printmakers.

In 2015, William Behnken was commissioned by the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island, New York, to produce work for its exhibition, “Robbins Reef Light House: Home on the Harbor.” In 2016 he was commissioned by the Print Club of Albany to produce a piece for its annual Collector’s Print.

“In my work I try to create a harmonious & cohesive composition using elements distilled from my visual & emotional experience in order to give fleeting moments a permanence and memorable order.

Over a lifetime of working,

I have found that for me, tonal values and light become the expressive equivalents of mystery & introspection, as well as for the ideals of resolution and fulfillment.

I have come to focus my skills on printmaking because it offers me an involvement in a medium that demands disciplined control, as well as a sensual & rich material experience.”

Bill Behnken

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13. Going Home. [Columbus Circle area.] Aquatint, 2006. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 3/4 x 23 3/4” (44.9 x 60.2 cm). Very good condition. #41946 $950.00

14. Sentimental Journey. [George Washington Bridge.] Aquatint, 2006. Edition 30.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 19 3/4 x 23 3/4” (50.3 x 60 cm). Very good condition. #40123 $800.00

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15. Close of the Day. [Triptych.] Stone lithograph, 2019. Edition 40. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Overall image size 5 x 24" (12.7 x 61 cm). Very good condition. #96142 $950.00

16. Lightscape. Aquatint, 2003. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 22 1/8 x 22� (56.2 x 55.9 cm). Very good condition. #30606 $800.

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17. ‘Round the Town. Aquatint, 2010. Edition 30. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 5/8 x 18 15/16” (44.8 x 48.7 cm). Very good condition. #69330 $900.00

18. Inwood Vista/Night Shift. Aquatint, 2011. Edition 30. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 19 3/4 x 23 3/4” (50 x 60.2 cm). Very good condition. #72773 $1,100.00

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19. The Embrace of Winter. Lithograph, 2017. Edition 40. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 12 x 13 1/2� (30.5 x 34.2 cm). Very good condition. #92946 $850.00

20. Summer Crossing II. [New York Harbor.] Color lithograph, 2013. Edition 25. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 15 15/16 x 18� (40.5 x 45.7 cm). Very good condition. #80784 $950.00

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21. One Winter’s Night. Etching and aquatint, 2018. Edition 60 + four AP. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 15/16 x 10” (20 x 25.4 cm). #95179-1 $425.00

22. (left) Presque Tout Blanc II. Aquatint, 2002. Edition 50, printing 25. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 20 7/8 x 17 5/8” (52.4 x 46.6 cm). Very good condition. #29254 $600.00 23. (right) Monument to Light. Drawing, 1998. Signed and dated in pencil. Drawn on black paper. Paper size 30 x 22 3/16” (76 x 56.6 cm). Very good condition. #64114 $1,500.00

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ALAN PETRULIS Alan Petrulis was born in Queens, New York, in 1954. He came late to the arts, first studying ecology-anthropology at Queens College.

In 1979 he received a MFA

in printmaking from the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore. Petrulis became a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) in 1999 and has worked closely with the New York Society of Etchers for many years. He has received a number of awards, most notable the Cannon and Ralph Fabri prizes from the National Academy of Design.

The land-

scape has been the most common motif occupying the interest of Petrulis for the past thirty years.

His etchings are

derived during his walks through New York City, the Hudson Valley, and the coast of New England. From this slow and deliberate process of traversing thousands of miles by foot, he has learned to address the landscape as one would a person, becoming aware of its moods and disposition.

Petrulis has work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum; New-York Historical Society; Museum of the City of New York; New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn; The Cahoon Museum, Cotuit, Massachusetts; and the Boston Athenaeum; and many others.

“I fell in love with intaglio before I ever even picked up an etcher’s needle. From the first moment that a fellow student showed me a freshly pulled print, I knew it was something I just had to do. Home is my anchor from where I wander outward on a line without end. Walking has become an essential element to my work, for it is within these journeys that my etchings are conceived. It is not just about searching out a good composition but in having intimate contact with places, to be able to see into the soul of things. I have heard it said that if a landscape is an instrument then walking through it is a song.”

Alan Petrulis

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24. The Pit. [New York.] Etching, 2019. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8” (22.4 x 30 cm). Very good condition. #96270 $225.00

25. Pershing Square. Etching, 2019. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 3/4 x 11 7/8” (22.2 x 30.1 cm). Very good condition. #96271 $225.00

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26. Astoria. [Queens.] Etching, 2019. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 3/4 x 11 7/8� (22.2 x 30.1 cm). Very good condition. #96322 $225.00

27. Main Street - Flushing. Etching, 2018. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 13/16� (22.6 x 30 cm). Very good condition. #95977 $225.00

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28. Waiting for the One. Etching, 2018. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 3/4 x 11 7/8” (22.4 x 30.3 cm). Very good condition. #94754 $225.00

29. (left) Dodge Street Rockers. [Block Island.] Etching, 2002. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 10 x 5 3/4” (25.4 x 14.5 cm). Very good condition. #37814 $150.00 30. (right) Mott Street Market. Etching, 2008. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 3/4” (22.7 x 14.6 cm). Very good condition. #56310 $175.00

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31. Blue Hill from Bernard Mountain. [Acadia National Park, Maine.] Alkyd on panel, 1995. Signed lower left. Panel size 11 13/16 x 15 7/8� (30.1 x 40.3 cm). Very good condition. #64188 $1,000.00

32. Beaver Dam on Otter Creek. [Acadia National Park, Maine.] Alkyd on panel, 1997.

Signed lower left. Panel size 13 13/16 x 22 15/16� (35.2 x 58.3 cm). Very good condition. #64174 $1,800.00

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33. Girls at the Boys Pond. Etching, 2009. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 5 7/8 x 8 7/8” (14.9 x 22.4 cm). Very good condition. #64366 $175.00

34. Union Square East. Etching, 2011. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 3/4” (22.6 x 30.0 cm). Very good condition. #73785 $225.00

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EMILY TRUEBLOOD Emily was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1942.

Beloit,

She studied at Beloit College, Wisconsin;

Academia

Artium,

Madrid, Spain; University of Wisconsin, Madison; Pratt Graphics Center, New York; and The Arts Students League, New York. of

She is a member of the Society

American

Audubon

Graphic

Artists,

Salmagundi

Club,

Artists

(SAGA),

National

Arts

Club,

Albany

Print

Club,

and National Association of Women Artists.

Emily Trueblood has won many awards including the Audubon Artists Silver

Medal,

College

Catherine

Purchase

Lorillard Award,

Wolfe

Bronze

Medal,

and

Center

for

Trenton

State

Contemporary

Printmaking Purchase Award. Her prints have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Trueblood has work in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Washington; New York Public Library; the British Museum; New-York Historical Society; Newark Public Library; Print Club of Albany; Portland Museum of Art; Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey; Museum of Modern Art, Israel; Cleveland Museum of Art; among others.

Trueblood selects colors to create a mood or weather condition - with each new color an additional block is added. “I look for city and nature views that appeal to me then change & simplify the composition until I feel that I can express it as a woodcut or linocut. Once cut, the blocks are almost impossible to change.

I like working like this way because it forces me to focus on what I most want to express.�

Emily Trueblood

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35. Daffodils 2. Three-block woodcut, 2019. Edition 20. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 7 15/16 x 10” (20.3 x 25.4 cm). Very good condition. #96710 $250.00

36. River View . Two-block woodcut, 2017. Edition 25. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 15/16 x 10” (20.2 x 25.3 cm). Very good condition. #95361 $250.00

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37. City Afternoon. Two-block woodcut, 1987. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 15 7/8” x 19 3/4” (40 x 49.5 cm). Very good condition. #17219 $1,500.00

38 . Empire State Afternoon. Two-block woodcut, 1995. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 5 7/8 x 7 15/16” (15 x 20.1 cm). Very good condition. #8338 $475.00

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39. (left) Chrysler Afternoon. Three-block linocut, 2018. Edition 25. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 7/8 x 5 15/16” (20.1 x 15.2 cm). Very good condition. #95363 $250.00 40. (right) Snowy Chrysler. Two-block linocut, 2018. Edition 40. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 13/16 x 5 15/16” (19.8 x 14.9 cm). Very good condition. #95364 $250.00

41. (left) New York Glow. Woodcut, 2017. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 7/8 x 5 15/16” (20.1 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #93233 $250.00 42. (right) Broadway Lights. Color linocut, 2016. Edition 15. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 15/16 x 5 15/16” (20.1 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #92392 $275.00

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43. Night Dock. Two-color linocut, 1986. Edition 20. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 15 7/8 x 19 13/16� (40.3 x 50.3 cm). Very good condition. #90022 $450.00

44. Westport Docks. [Massachusetts.] Two-block linocut, 2006. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 3 7/8 x 5 7/8� (9.8 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #67666 $175.00

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45. Distant Wall Street. Four-block linocut, 2009. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 5 3/4 x 7 3/4” (14.9 x 19.9 cm). Very good condition. #66024 $150.00

46. (left) City Steam. Two-block woodcut, 2014. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil.

Image size 8 x 6” (20. x 15 cm). Very good condition. #86134 $200.00 47. (right) Towers at Dusk. Three-block linocut, 2014. Edition 80. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Published by the Print Club of Albany. Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8” (20.1 x 15.0 cm).

Very good condition. #85271 $300.00

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48. West Side, Manhattan. Michael W. Arike. Color etching and aquatint, 2013. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 11 7/8 x 17 3/4" (30.3 x 45 cm). Very good condition. #81032 $600.00

49. Night Passage, Noble & Serene. William J. Behnken. Aquatint, 2014. Edition 30.

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 11 3/4 x 23 1/4� (29.8 x 60.1 cm). Very good condition. #87794 $900.000

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50. Tompkinsville. [Staten Island.] Alan Petrulis. Etching, 2018. Edition 75. Signed and titled in pencil. Image size 8 13/16 x 11 15/16” (22.3 x 30.3 cm). Very good condition. #95978 $225.00

51. Capital Spring. Emily Trueblood. Three- block woodcut, 2011. Edition 30. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Image size 5 15/16 x 7 7/8” (15 x 2.01 cm). Very good condition. #74849 $150.00

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52. (left) Iron and Steel. Alan Petrulis. Etching, 1998. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil.

Image size 9 7/8 x 5 7/8” (25.2 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #6959 $175.00 53. (right) Reflection. William J. Behnken. Aquatint, 2002. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 17 7/8 x 23 3/4” (44.9 x 59.8 cm). Very good condition. #27888 $700.00

54. (left) Empire. [New York City.] Michael W. Arike. Color etching and aquatint, 2005. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 15/16” (22.7 x 15 cm). Very good condition. #37289 $250.00 55. (right) Empire State Afternoon 2. Emily Trueblood. Linocut, 2006. Edition 50. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Image size 7 15/16 x 5 7/8” (20.2 x 14.8 cm). Very good condition. #40332 $400.00