By Jay Fisher with an essay by William S. Lieberman
Published in 2009 by the AFA
88 pages, 107 illus. (106 in color), 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Paper • ISBN 978-1-885444-38-7 • $25.00 (AFA)

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) may be known best as a painter and sculptor, but he was also a prolific and innovative printmaker with wide-ranging interests. Matisse as Printmaker is profusely illustrated with examples of every type of printmaking he used: etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts in black and white, and two-color prints. The catalogue catalogue contains an essay by Guest Curator Jay McKean Fisher that considers the role of printmaking within Matisse’s body of work. Also included is a reprint of the seminal essay from Matisse: 50 Years of His Graphic Art (1956) by the late William S. Lieberman, former Chairman of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Together, the essays provide a rich examination of Matisse’s relationship with printmaking, a much-understudied part of his oeuvre, and offer a persuasive argument that Matisse’s prints merit consideration not merely as a footnote to his painting, but in their own right.