Highpoint Editions: A History & Catalogue, 2001–2021

Abstract

Despite the predominant use of “catalogue raisonné” to describe a compendium of a single artist’s lifetime works, the term’s origins in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries encompassed more variety, from scientific publications to sales and auction catalogues.1 Scholars of printmaking have long recognized the benefit of documenting the output of print publishers, which can encompass many different artists. Although some of the earliest catalogues raisonnés focused on the graphic arts, the first covering a print publisher did not appear until the mid-twentieth century.2 Since the advent of collaborative printmaking studios in the 1960s, the number of these resources has proliferated.3 Searching for “print publisher” in the Print Council of America’s Index to Print Catalogues Raisonnés (IPCR) yields many results.4