Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, have just acquired for its permanent collection copies of Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One (2017), and Palisades: North River Suite Volume Two (2020); both published by Needlewatcher Editions.
Drawn from the journals of James Lancel McElhinney, author of the Sketchbook Traveler books released by Schiffer Publishing, each portfolio contains seven archival pigment prints of images, with title-page, and an index page with colophon, bound in a handmade archival cloth-covered Solander box with blind-stamped titles on the cover and spine. Both were produced by Brilliant Graphics in Exton, PA and Shenzhen China. The Hudson Highlands limited edition contains an illustrated chapbook, with texts by the author and an introduction by Steven Miller. The Palisades includes a color intaglio copperplate etching on Somerset etching paper, with digital chine-collé, produced by Philadelphia master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger.
Both of these works, including the prototype for Palisades, were exhibited at the Hudson River Museum in the exhibition James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew, from September 13, 2019 to February 16, 2020. Hudson Highlands was previously shown in exhibitions at: The institute Library in New Haven CT and at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison NY. McElhinney’s O.T.W. On the Water: The Schuylkill River (also produced by Brilliant) was the centerpiece of an eponymous installation at Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, from October 24, 2018 to January 5, 2020. Fine press editions published by Needlewatcher Editions, and can be found in the following collections:
Albany Institute of History and Art
Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
Independence Seaport Museum
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Portland ME
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Special Collections
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Temple University. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven CT,
And in private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Zealand.
From March to October 2018, McElhinney traveled along the northern Rio Grande in Colorado and New Mexico, filling his sketchbook with paintings from the journey. Images from these travels were published in Grand River Sketchbook, a limited edition of 25 consisting of ten archival pigment prints, produced by Orion Studios Santa Fe, with a color intaglio copperplate etching with digital chine-collé produced by Philadelphia master printer Cindi Royce Ettinger. Contents are bound in a handmade cloth-covered portfolio by Peter Geraty of Praxis Bindery in Easthampton, MA.James Lancel McElhinney is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, and by William Havu Gallery in Denver. His personal website is: https://www.mcelhinneyart.com
For more information about the limited editions, please contact:
NEEDLEWATCHER EDITIONS
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