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Winner of the 2005 IFPDA Book Award
Peter Fuhring
for Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II; The Seventeenth Century
The IFPDA has named Prof. Peter Fuhring as the recipient of its 2005 Book Award for his three volume work, Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II; The Seventeenth Century, published by the Rijksmuseum and Sound & Vision Publishers in Rotterdam. Robert Newman, president of the IFPDA, presented the award to Prof. Fuhring on Friday, November 4, 2005 at the Fifteenth Annual IFPDA Print Fair which was held at the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City from November 3 – 6, 2005.
Prof. Fuhring’s especially distinguished book covers the vast print collection in the Rijksmuseum. The three volumes of the Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum provide their international audience with a comprehensive examination of all the areas for which ornament prints have been produced. Fuhring’s work presents a comprehensive study of the field of old master prints and is enhanced by approximately 1,000 illustrations which support a staggering collection of 13,000 entries. The volumes feature indices and glossaries in multiple foreign languages. Juror James Goodfriend of C & J Goodfriend Drawings and Prints stated that Fuhring’s volumes are “a major contribution to print scholarship in a most difficult area and I am in awe, not only of the time and effort that went into it and the extensive scholarship and expertise, but of Fuhring’s sheer visual memory in matching images originating at different times and places but deriving from the same source.”
Other highly commended entries included Erik Desmazières by Ed de Heer and Bob van den Boogert, published in conjunction with the 2004 exhibition of the artist’s works at the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, and independent curator Marilyn Symmes’ Impressions of New York, Prints from the New-York Historical Society, published on the Society’s Bicentennial in 2004 to accompany the exhibition of the same name.
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