Grant Arnold and the Golden Era of Woodstock Lithography: 1930–1940

This is the catalog for a show that ran at the Woodstock School of Art from October 14 to December 9, 2023. Independent art historian Bruce Weber curated the show and included an essay in the catalog. Weber wrote:

“From 1930 to 1940, the artist Grant Arnold (1904–1988) operated a lithographic workshop in the basement of the Woodstock Artists Association. His encouraging presence and robust activity as a printer played a significant role in the art colony’s development during the decade of the 1930s. Arnold was also productive as a printmaker and authored Creative Lithography and How to Do It, published in 1941, a still widely read book that explores the technical ins and outs of this complex and demanding medium.

Arnold was born in Brooklyn, New York, and in his teens, began attending classes at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1929, he joined Charles W. Locke’s lithography class, where he became absorbed in the lithographic process. The establishment of printing studios in New York City following the end of World War I by George Miller and Bolton Brown (who divided his time between Woodstock and Manhattan) helped foster the conditions under which artistic lithography would develop and prosper in America in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s.”

The catalog is softcover, has 72 pages, 55 color and black and white images, and a trim size of 9 x 10 inches. Published in 2023.