New Work: ‘Matisse as Printmaker’

Henri Matisse is best known as a painter and colorist, but for over 50 years he was also an accomplished printmaker who worked in many forms of print media. Luke Hayman has designed the catalogue for “Matisse as Printmaker,” a new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art that features over 150 of Matisse’s print works, including etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs and linocuts. The exhibited prints come from the holdings of the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and from the BMA’s own extensive collection. The catalogue is published by the American Federation of the Arts.

A look inside the book after the jump.

The 80-page book is intimately scaled at 6 5/8” by 8 ½”. The cover features no type, only Matisse’s signature, and appears in one of the artist’s bold colors, a bright yellow that complements the tones of the works on paper illustrated inside. The endpapers feature a detail of Matisse drawing one of his distinctive lines.

Project Team: Luke Hayman, partner-in-charge and designer; Shigeto Akiyama, designer.