By way of short introduction, I am a fine print dealer specializing in French color lithography and etching, German & Austrian color woodcuts, and American color woodcuts – all of the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
I have written many articles for various art journals, magazines and museum exhibition brochures. Over the past forty years I have curated or co-curated a number of museum and art gallery exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as having loaned many examples from my own collection. I also have sold many prints to major museums and university museums.
Of particular note is my early interest in a little explored area of print-making – that of the American color woodcut. In 1984, along with Ann Harlow at The Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s College, we put together the first exhibition of this subject in over 50 years,The Color Woodcut in America, 1895-1945. Starting here, many such exhibitions followed contributing greatly to the study, research and popularity of this subject and introducing the many women artists who worked in this specialization.
On request, I would be pleased to offer any of the many catalogs (if still available) for these past exhibitions as well as reprints of articles or introductions to museum exhibitions which I have written.
I have also written to a lesser extent on French printmaking of La Belle Epoque and Japonisme – the Japanese influence on French printmaking.
Finally, my interest in German and Viennese art, though of equal interest, has enabled me to acquire a smaller collection of these prints. The geographical triangle, the boundaries of which were formed by Berlin, Munich and Vienna, was an area of artistic ferment and creativity at the turn of the century. In 1986 I devoted an entire booth at the New York Armory Print Fair to this area of art with an exhibition titled Vienna 1900 – Dream and Reality.
Andrew Terry Keats - Fine Art 