Turner Carroll has been entrusted with the honor of managing the Landfall Press archive and documentary files. Landfall Press was started by master printer Jack Lemon in 1970 after being an assistant and apprentice to artist Thomas Hart Benton, and after graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute. In his career of over 50 years, Lemon became one of the most influential voices in printing while running Landfall’s studios in Chicago and Santa Fe. Jack Lemon has worked with such major artists as Christo, Claus Oldenburg, Chuck Close, Kara Walker, Roger Brown, William Christenberry, Judy Chicago, Charles Arnoldi, and Jeanette Pasin Sloan, among other important names in contemporary art history. Hear more about Jack Lemon’s long print-making career in the episode below from prestigious print-making podcast Hello, Print Friend, or hear it from him at the opening on August 23!
Landfall Press Legacy Center at Palace Avenue, finished and during install
Landfall Press Timeline
1963
Jack Lemon graduates from the Kansas City Art Institute in Painting & Printmaking.
1970
Jack Lemon founds Landfall Press in Chicago. Some of the first Landfall publications were portfolios of lithographs by Christo, Philip Pearlstein and Sol LeWitt.
1980
Landfall opens new, bigger Chicago location and is one of the founding members of Art Chicago, now internationally-renowned EXPO Chicago.
1992
The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and MoMA New York organize celebrations of Landfall’s 25th anniversary, solidifying its institutional recognition.
2004
Landfall Press workshop moves to Santa Fe. Landfall publishes print works by internationally famed artists such as Kara Walker, Terry Allen, Christo, Robert Cottingham, Jim Dine, Vernon Fisher, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Philip Pearlstein, Jeanette Pasin-Sloan, Pat Steir, H.C. Westermann and William T. Wiley.
2022
Landfall Press closes its studio and announces that it has entrusted Turner Carroll Gallery to manage its archive. Work begins in collaboration with Jack Lemon to found a space where Landfall’s prints can be viewed and placed in print collectors’ homes in perpetuity.
Original sculpture by H.C. Westermann with original drawing by William Wiley
One incredible piece in Landfall’s archive, pictured above, is an original sculpture by H.C. Westermann with an original drawing by William Wiley.
Now, scholars, curators, and collectors will be able to trace the history of Landfall Press through the files, photographs, print documentation, lithographic ink samples, and correspondences in the Landfall Press Legacy Center. The center will also contain memorabilia personal to these widely known artists–for example, Landfall Press’s Kara Walker archive contains process photographs of Walker’s very first prints, some of which are now her most popular like Keys to the Coop, which is found in museums throughout the world (pictured below).
The Landfall Press Legacy Center will be the definitive place where scholars and collectors can study Lemon’s prints and notes, as well as see the full archive of every print Lemon made. Turner Carroll Gallery will also rotate regular exhibitions of Landfall prints so that people can see Landfall’s legacy at our Canyon Road location.
The Landfall Press Legacy Center will be open by appointment only after this opening celebration–we would love for you to call us at (505) 986-9800 or email us at info@turnercarrollgallery.com.
Author: Sophie Carroll