In Turbeville's show, at the Staley-Wise Gallery, in SoHo, there are twenty-one digital prints drawn from a new book, "Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures".
It includes more than 90 paintings, drawings, rare books and prints drawn from collections nationally, along with a keenly researched catalog with entries by Dutch art scholars.
Forty prints drawn from the collection's works by photographers born or working in Scotland are at the Forbes Magazine Galleries in Greenwich Village.
In front of its counter is a small trampet so children can bounce up to read the outrageous small print drawn up by artist Darren Cullen.
In this show's 100 or so ukiyo-e, or color woodblock prints (drawn from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts), valiant samurai turn out to be Kabuki actors in costume; refined landscapes depict well-trodden tourist sites; and images of classical beauties accompanied by poems are more often than not portraits of courtesans.
Know that some artists are known to have signed blank paper, which later have prints drawn on/from them, which means the artist did not even supervise the pulls.
Both founders had a desire to modernize photo-printing, drawn to the science and the technology behind building up their own manufacturing process from scratch.
The present exhibition, mostly vintage prints, draws together almost 50 of the artist's electrically inspired images.
Beatriz Milhazes, a Brazilian painter, makes vibrant, patterned paintings and prints drawing on a variety of popular Brazilian decorative motifs.
"When people come to Maine and spend long periods here, they take themselves off the beaten path," said Aprile Gallant, curator of prints, drawing and photography at the Portland Museum.
Designers of chromolithographic prints drew all the elements text and image as one piece of artwork; freed from the technical restraints of letterpress printing, they could invent fanciful ornaments and lettering styles at will.
