The Old Print Shop, Inc.

The Old Print Shop, Inc. The Old Print Shop, est. 1898, specializes in American Fine Art Printmaking from 1700 - contemporary. We have been giving advice to collectors since 1898.

The Old Print Shop is an art gallery specializing in American art from 1700 to contemporary, old maps and reference books. The shop has an extensive collection of American eighteenth and nineteenth-century printmaking, including early American imprints by Doolittle, Pelham, Revere and others. The gallery has extensive collections of work by John James Audubon, Currier & Ives, Winslow Homer and oth

er nineteenth century artists. They also have art under subject categories which include Urban Views, American History, Portraits, Natural History, Marine, Sports and Games, and Advertising Broadsides. In the twentieth century the gallery has an extensive collection of American master printmakers, including John Taylor Arms, George Bellows, Frank W. Benson, Thomas Hart Benton, Howard Cook, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, Louis Lozowick, John Marin, John Sloan, and hundreds of other artists. The Old Print Shop currently represents over seventy living artist’s that use printmaking as one of the expressive mediums. Since the 1930’s The Old Print Shop has promoted and carried old maps. Meaning maps published from 1450 to 1880, recently the shop began carrying twentieth-century pictorial maps. Some might think that art is too expensive for them to live with, nothing is further from the truth. We welcome you to look at our web site or better, come into the gallery and browse what we have to offer.

Variations on ‘BOUQUET’Idaherma Williams Color Woodcut Exhibition This is a fun example of a varied edition – created us...
04/30/2026

Variations on ‘BOUQUET’
Idaherma Williams Color Woodcut Exhibition

This is a fun example of a varied edition – created using both different colors, and rolling the color inks on the blocks in unique patterns. The artist has ‘printed’ her family and herself into this piece. Can you find them?

The Idaherma Williams Color Woodcut Exhibition is adorning our gallery walls until Friday, June 5. The OLD PRINT SHOP is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 4 p.m. After Memorial Day hours of operation are Monday – Friday, 10 – 4 p.m.

IDAHERMA WILLIAMSColor Woodcut ExhibitionApril 17 - June 5, 2026 Idaherma organized her work in series.  The two pieces ...
04/25/2026

IDAHERMA WILLIAMS
Color Woodcut Exhibition
April 17 - June 5, 2026

Idaherma organized her work in series. The two pieces shown are from the Train Series and titled “Man on the Moon,” and “Artist on the Train.” Idaherma often drew herself into her pieces and can be seen in the detail of “Artist on the Train,” adding to the work's whimsy.

The Idaherma Williams Color Woodcut Exhibition is adorning our gallery walls until Friday, June 5. The OLD PRINT SHOP is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 4 p.m. After Memorial Day, hours of operation are Monday – Friday, 10 – 4 p.m.

Ivory-Billed Woodpeckerby John Costin “I consider bird portraits to be my work. They are usually depicted life size. Etc...
04/22/2026

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
by John Costin

“I consider bird portraits to be my work. They are usually depicted life size.

Etching is a complex process combining skills of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and engineering. Starting with a polished plate of copper, the image is directly etched by hand on the plate as if it were a canvas. Up to 5 copper plates might be etched and used to create one print. This process takes from 6-8 weeks to complete. The plates are then skillfully inked and printed on a sheet of rag stock paper. Each piece is then hand colored with an oil paint for rich color quality and subtle nuances of detail, making each piece unique.”

John Costin studied at the University of South Florida where he was introduced to intaglio art.

This impressive etching of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was created in 2011. **Paper size is 39 3/4 x 28” and image size 35 1/2 x 23 5/8”.

IDAHERMA WILLIAMSColor Woodblock PrintsExhibition April 17 – June 5, 2026 “My work with woodblock prints explores the be...
04/15/2026

IDAHERMA WILLIAMS
Color Woodblock Prints
Exhibition April 17 – June 5, 2026

“My work with woodblock prints explores the beauty of the wood and its transformation into a print. The empty block is a challenge, and the cutting of the wood with my wonderful tools inspires me to go beyond the block. My love for color explores the exquisite qualities of the flowers, and inking the blocks with a zillion inks brings out the amazing concept of each work. I hand print each block with the use of a Japanese baren on special handmade papers that I select for the print.”

Idaherma Williams (1933-2021) received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. She also attended the Advanced Studio at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and holds a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

The work of Emilio Sanchez is the perfect way to welcome the warm weather back to New York.CASITA DE GLORIAEmilio Sanche...
04/14/2026

The work of Emilio Sanchez is the perfect way to welcome the warm weather back to New York.

CASITA DE GLORIA
Emilio Sanchez, c.1977

Visit us at the IFPDA Print Fair, booth B19, opening tonight through April 12th. Our presentation explores New York hist...
04/09/2026

Visit us at the IFPDA Print Fair, booth B19, opening tonight through April 12th.

Our presentation explores New York history as told through prints. For 350 years the city has served as a backdrop and inspiration for printmakers, from the earliest Dutch and British colonial views to the contemporary printmakers who continue to interpret it today.

Park Avenue Armory, 5–9pm tonight. Open daily through Sunday.

IFPDA: New York and Brooklyn, 1875, as seen from New Jersey. This iconic Currier and Ives lithograph depicts the twin me...
04/08/2026

IFPDA: New York and Brooklyn, 1875, as seen from New Jersey.

This iconic Currier and Ives lithograph depicts the twin metropolises from an imaginary vantage point high above Jersey City, New Jersey. The vibrant color, disregard for scale, and crowded rivers and harbor all combine to convey the region’s growing power and vitality. A legend at the base identifies no fewer than 103 neighborhoods, parks, businesses, rail stations, churches, bridges, and more. Brooklyn would not be annexed to New York until 1898, making this a unique portrait of two great cities before they became one.

In 1671, the first known printed view of New Amsterdam was published. In the 350 years since, artists have found endless...
04/06/2026

In 1671, the first known printed view of New Amsterdam was published. In the 350 years since, artists have found endless ways to capture it. This week we are bringing a journey through New York’s entire printed history to the IFPDA Print Fair, April 9–12 at the Park Avenue Armory.

THE GATES OF THE CITY
John Taylor Arms, 1922

PETER MILTONThe Old Print Shop is saddened to announce the passing of friend and artist, Peter Milton. He is well known ...
03/13/2026

PETER MILTON

The Old Print Shop is saddened to announce the passing of friend and artist, Peter Milton. He is well known for his richly detailed intaglio prints created during the 1980 and 1990s. His work is revered and collected widely by individuals and institutions. Milton’s work can be found in the collections of over two hundred museums including the Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among others.

Peter Milton was born in Pennsylvania in 1930. He studied for two years at the Virginia Military Institute and completed his BFA in 1954 at Yale University under Josef Albers and Gabor Peterdi. He continued his studies at Yale and in 1961 received his MFA. From 1961-1968 he lived in Baltimore where he taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. It was during this period when Milton took an avid interest in printmaking. He had his first solo show in 1963 and quickly started winning awards internationally. Over the course of fifty years, he created intricate visual worlds in more than 130 prints. Many of which took over a year to make.

“I suppose what I am really working toward is a four-dimensional articulation—where images juggle with the time continuum as part of the enigma. Narrative is only incidental to my imagery, which I recognize more and more often comes looking for me when I am out looking for something else. The generation of a coherent thematic structure very often begins—with a series of sheer coincidences. Though my prints may appear carefully thought out and controlled, they are in fact also examples of a sort of esthetic chaos theory - the seemingly orderly organization of actually random elements. I share in the contemporary fascination with randomness—and in an almost mystical feeling that the very lack of pattern is a pattern in itself.” - Peter Milton

Address

49 West 24th Street, Floor 2
New York, NY
10010

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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+12126833950

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