In April of 1789, a few months before the storming of the Bastille, the paper factory of Jean-Baptiste Réveillon in Paris was taken over by labor protestors, who commandeered the machines to print ...
Eileen Canning, marbled paper with free-form combed pattern (1983) (all images courtesy Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) In our admittedly limited hierarchies of art materials ...
The bright, bold colors are perhaps the first thing visitors will notice upon entering “Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s.” Closer inspection reveals that the ...