Fifty years ago in 1962 in the San Francisco Bay Area, forty-year-old Richard Diebenkorn telephoned a young entrepreneur, Kathan Brown, to ask if he could attend a Live Model Workshop in the etching studio she had founded that year and named Crown Point Press. Eighty miles away in Sacramento, California, Wayne Thiebaud was making his first paintings of pies and cakes. In 1965 Crown Point Press published limited edition portfolios of prints by both artists, and the antique art of etching was set to become once again, as it had been for Picasso and Matisse, a favored printmaking medium for avant-garde artists. As curator Richard Field pointed out in 1975, Pop artists loved silkscreen and lithography, but what he called etching s cool appealed to newer artists searching for an instrument of intellect. Is this the Crown Point Press? Sol LeWitt inquired politely in 1971 as he grasped a porch railing to save himself from being swept downstairs by two big dogs. John Cage arrived at the press...

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