Book Awards

With the IFPDA Book Award, the organization seeks to encourage research, scholarship and the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints by awarding the author of one outstanding publication a prize of $2,000.

2009 Book Award

Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder

Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder

By Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
With this book, Dr. Witcombe presents a comprehensive analysis of print publishing’s development during a period when prints became a burgeoning market, identifying who was publishing what prints and when, and tracing the lives, activities, relationships, and rivalries of various major and minor publishers, printers, engravers, and artists. Over 680 prints are referenced, of which 320 are illustrated.

Previous Book Awards

2008

Parmigianino und Sein Kreis, Druckgraphik aus der Sammlung Baselitz 
(Parmigianino and His Circle: Prints from the Baselitz Collection)

Dr. Achim Gnann
Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag and the Staatlischen Graphischen Sammlung München

2007

Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950

Edited by John Ittmann
Published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the McNay Art Museum in association with Yale University Press

2006

Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly

By Richard H. Axsom
Published by Yale University Press and Grand Rapids Art Museum

2005

Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II; The Seventh Century

By Peter Fuhring
Published by the Rijksmuseum and Sound & Vision Publishers, Rotterdam

2004

Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things

By Wendy Weitman
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York