The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

New Metropolitan Museum, 1980. 262pp, exhibition catalogue surveying artists' use of monotype processes; an important reference work, beautifully illustrated. Essays by Reed on monotypes in the 17th & 18th centuries; by Janis on the revival of monotype as a print process in the 19th century; by Shapiro on 19th century masters; by Kiehl on monotypes in America in the 19th/early 20th centuries; by Ives on modern monotypes; and by Mazur on an artist's view of monotypes.

261 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."