Colleagues:
I forward information on this special edition book project on artist, Robert Mangold, which is available for purchase from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Spaulding at 716.270.8212 or [log in to unmask]
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On October 23, 2009, Robert Mangold, Beyond the Line: Paintings and Project 2000-2008 will open at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. This noteworthy exhibition celebrates the work of Robert Mangold, a native of Buffalo, and also documents his magnificent glass commission for our city’s new United States Courthouse, commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and scheduled for completion in 2010. The Albright-Knox, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., is publishing a book that will serve as both the exhibition catalogue and a document of the commission.
As a special collections librarian, you are among a group of people to be invited to purchase a Collectors Edition set, which will include an original woodcut print by the artist produced by the renowned printmaking studio Simmelink/Sukimoto. The limited-edition woodcut print (edition 40), individually signed and numbered, will come with the special clothbound publication in a distinctive Collectors Edition box. The purchase price of $2,500 would also establish you as an exhibition sponsor.
The benefits of sponsorship include invitations to special exhibition-related events, as well as acknowledgment in all printed materials related to the exhibition; on our Website; and on the gallery signage. In order for you to become an exhibition sponsor, we must receive a completed order form, and your payment, by September 15, 2009.
The book traces Mangold’s artistic roots and development, from his austere geometric paintings of the 1970s to his work on the Buffalo courthouse windows and the animated ring images he is creating today. Insightful essays and an in-depth interview with the artist afford an intimate look at his process. Essayists include Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Marla Prather, Senior Consultant in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and William Pedersen, a principal in the architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, responsible for the design of the Buffalo courthouse. The limited-edition print included in the Collectors Edition set, from Mangold’s “Ring Image” series, is an exquisite example of his most recent work.
Only forty Collectors Edition sets will be available. An order form contains all of the information you will need to reserve your copy.
I hope that you will take advantage of this unique opportunity to own this impressive publication documenting Mangold’s work and the woodcut print, an important addition to any contemporary art library. Should you have any questions about this offer or to receive an order form, please do not hesitate to contact Karen Spaulding at 716.270.8212 or [log in to unmask]
Susana Tejada
Head of Research Resources
G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library + Gallery Archives
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222-1096
tel: 716.270.8225
fax: 716.882.6213
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www.albrightknox.org