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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2013>Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press

# Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press

September 1, 2013 – January 5, 2014West Building, Ground Floor, Outer Tier Galleries

Richard Diebenkorn,* Green* (working proof 7), 1986, color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, and drypoint with pasted-down elements,  Kathan Brown, © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn,* Green*, 1986, color spitbite aquatint, soapground aquatint, and drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund and Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1996, © The Estate of Richard Diebenkorn

Chuck Close, *Self-Portrait* (study for unpublished progression print), proofs printed 2010, study assembled 2013, color photogravure: four color-separation proofs and one full-color working proof, Chuck Close, © Chuck Close, Courtesy Pace Gallery

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview: **Featuring 125 working proofs and edition prints produced between 1972 and 2010 at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, one of the most influential printmaking studios of the last half century, *Yes, No, Maybe* goes beyond celebrating the flash of inspiration and the role of the imagination to examine the artistic process as a sequence of decisions. The stages of intaglio printmaking reveal this process in very particular ways. Working proofs record occurrences both deliberate and serendipitous. They are used to monitor and steer a print’s evolution, prompting evaluation and approval, revision, or rejection. Each proof compels a decision: yes, no, maybe. Among the 25 artists represented are those with long ties to Crown Point Press—Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Chuck Close, and Sol LeWitt—as well as those whose association is more recent, such as Mamma Andersson, Julie Mehretu, Jockum Nordström, Laura Owens, and Amy Sillman.

**Organization:** Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington..

**Sponsor:** The exhibition is supported in part by a generous grant from the Thaw Charitable Trust.

**Attendance:**  50,171

**Catalog:**Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, by Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh. National Gallery of Art: Washington, D.C., 2013.

**Other Venues:**  McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, February 4–May 17, 2015

**Installation views, video, art, ****and commentary**

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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Exhibition Checklist

                  - Julie Mehretu | nga
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    November 3, 2015, (8:54 minutes)                                
                  - An Insider’s Perspective
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    December 31, 2013, (35:36 minutes)                                
                  - Printing John Cage’s "Eninka 29," 1986
                  -                                     Video, Released:                                    December 17, 2013, (2:39 minutes)                                
                  - Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions 
                  -                                     Audio, Released:                                    September 24, 2013, (55:20 minutes)                                

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