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50 years ago, Robert Feldman and his publishing imprint Parasol Press embarked on a project with the aim of creating something akin to a “print of the month” club. While this idea seemingly would cater to mass appeal, Parasol Press had become known in the previous five years for being among the most adventuresome print publishers, producing works with Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Dorothea Rockburne, and numerous others. In the end, subscribers received all thirteen prints together, not in installments, and the Rubber Stamp Portfolio, as it has become known, offered a snapshot of the New York-centered avant-garde at that moment in time.
Under Feldman, Parasol, with the project managed by Carol Androccio (later Carol LeWitt), worked with thirteen different artists to create works, each of which would be a custom-engraved rubber stamp to be inked and printed on paper as an original, limited-edition artist print. Each work was done in an edition of 1000, with each artist approaching the project with their own vision. Ultimately, several deviated dramatically from the single stamp principle, yet each in ways that reflected the exigencies of their practices. Feldman’s idea intrigued the Museum of Modern Art and their publications department so greatly that the museum requested to be, for a period of one year, the exclusive distributor for the portfolio.
The thirteen artists, whose participation mostly stemmed from Feldman’s early relationships to the Bykert and Allan Stone galleries, expanded beyond any particular boundaries, to include:
Carl Andre
Richard Artschwager
Daniel Buren
Chuck Close
Barry Le Va
Sol LeWitt
Agnes Martin
Robert Mangold
Don Nice
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Myron Stout
Tom Wesselmann
Joe Zucker
The works range from as reductive as possible (Carl Andre’s work consisted of a piece of paper being stamped with a number from 1 to 1000, and thus the “image” was also the edition numbering of that impression) to opulent full-color imagery (Wesselmann’s required ten stamps). Some artists were deeply involved in paper choice (e.g. Sylvia Plimack Mangold), while others left the decision up to Parasol Press. More information for each piece is available on the exhibition’s webpage under each work.
This retrospective look at the Rubber Stamp Portfolio is the first time the entire suite and the existent archive of the whole project (correspondence, proofs, the rubber stamps used to make the works, etc.) has ever been exhibited. It is the second of a three-part series of exhibitions at Krakow Witkin Gallery that highlights and honors the efforts of Bob Feldman and Parasol Press. The series began with this past spring’s presentation of Agnes Martin’s 1973 project, “On a Clear Day” and will continue in the fall with an exhibition of Mel Bochner’s editioned works from the 1970s. In 2026, the Addison Gallery of American Art will mount a survey of Parasol Press’s entire history curated by Rachel Vogel. A section of this exhibition (focusing on the 1970s) will subsequently travel to the Print Center New York.
A few impressions of each artist’s contribution are available for sale. In addition, one complete suite of the thirteen prints is available to purchase.
Krakow Witkin Gallery would like to thank the family of Bob Feldman as well as Rachel Vogel and Carol LeWitt for their generous contributions of time, insight, enthusiasm, and support.
Rubber stamp print on Kilmurray paper
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Uneditioned, with approximately 30 proofs
Unsigned and unnumbered.
(Inventory #38025)
$300
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 250 in green (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37722)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 250 in green (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37723)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 250 in green (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #38044)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 250 in green (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #38045)
8 x 8 inches each (20.3 x 20.3 cm each)
Edition of 1000
(Inventory #8388)
$5,000 (unframed)
Individual impressions of most prints also available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition 58 of 250 in yellow (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #38047)
Stamp made by The Bates Manufacturing Company
Printed by Andrea, Stephen, and Karen Feldman
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Each work in the edition is stamp-numbered sequentially and thus the edition # is also the “image”
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$800
Individual impressions available
Stamped signature, recto lower right
Image size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3)
Paper size: 11 x 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 cm)
Edition of 1000
(Inventory #37428)
$3,000 (unframed)
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamps made by T.S. Buck
Printed by Catherine Kord
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$100
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$300
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
$100
Individual impressions available
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition 96 of 250 in red (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37724)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition 165 of 250 in red (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37725)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition 171 of 250 in red (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow, making a total edition size of 1000)
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37726)
Printed by A. Colish Press
Installation dimensions are variable
(Inventory #38163)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by Aaron Arnow
Paper size (each): 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
This installation: 80 x 128 inches (203.2 x 325.1 cm)
Edition of 250 in blue (the project had 250 elements in each of four colors: blue, green, red, and yellow). This group is editions: 16, 77, 154, 181, 201, 212, and 231
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #38066)
4 x 3 1/4 inches (10.2 x 8.3 cm)
(Inventory #37773)
$10
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