Lecturing at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University July 13th, I had two groups of students from the Luso American Education Foundation Summer Camp attend, we reviewed nine works on paper by master printer Nathan Oliveira, we covered lithographs, monotype and drypoint from 1956-2000.
What an honor to speak about this great artist, his techniques and impatience with traditional printmaking led him into new ways to produce master works.
I quoted from Robert Conway a art historian and author of a future two set catalougue on all of Nathans works on paper "Oliveira's achievements as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman are enough to earn him his place in the history of modern American art. His career as printmaker, however, elevates him beyond the boundaries of the present, for Nathan Oliveira is arguably one of the half-dozen most important printmakers in the last five centuries of western art" - I could not say it any better, Comway added Oliveira to names such, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Benedetto Castiglione, Goya and Degas "these artists and a few others challenged the boundaries of Western printmaking over the past four centuries".