Raisonne.org is a new site that will provide full cataloguing for prints by artists. The intention is to document the complete work of many printmakers who have never had catalogues and also to provide on-line catalogues for printmakers whose raisonne catalogues are long out-of-date, rare, or unillustrated. In other cases raisonne.org will complete previously existing catalogues where only a part of the artist's work was previously published. We have ten raisonne catalogues currently posted, some of which are still in progress:

Grace Thurston Arnold Albee, American (1890-1985)
Bernard Brussel-Smith, American (1914-1989)
Letterio Calapai, American (1902-1993)
Donald De Lue, American (1897-1988)
Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, Bavarian-American (1855-1932)
Paul Lameyer, German-American (1885-1960
Joseph Margulies, American (1896-1984)
Henry M. O'Connor, American (1891-1975)
Chauncey F. Ryder, American (1868-1949)
Charles H. Woodbury, American (1864-1940)

Catalogues that we are working towards include: Gertrude Fiske, Irwin D. Hoffman, Leo Meissner, Rembrandt Peale, T. F. Simon (supplement and illustrations to Novak), and Levon West (West's prints were catalogued through 1928 by Otto Torrington, we will post those prints as well as the prints he made after 1928).

We hope that this site will be the center of a community of print-interested scholars and that the scholarship will be interactive. The advantage of an on-line web site is that information can be continually added, updated, and corrected. We hope that all members of raisonne.org will feel welcome to participate in increasing the quality of information on the site.

We have built the software for the site so that we can have off-site editors. If a member of our community would like to add a raisonne we will be pleased to entertain suggestions for additional printmakers as subjects for the site and suggestions for editors.

If there is a need in the future, we would look at the possibility of adding drawing, painting, or other raisonnes to the site.

We hope that as you visit and use the site you will find it to be a useful part of print scholarship and we thank you for your interest.

Sincerely, D. Roger Howlett, Trustee, raisonne.org


Image: Leo Messiner, American (1895-1977). "Down East", 1971. Detail.