This exhibition will feature a curated selection of over 100 works highlighting the broad variety of art we’ve represented for fifty-four years. Some of the artists include:

Gustave Baumann (we have represented his estate for 48 years); John Taylor Arms, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall, Nathan Oliveira, Joan Miro, J.A.M. Whistler, Bertha Lum, Ian Hugo, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Lapp, James Rosen, W.S. Rice, Gene Kloss, J.D. Smillie, Horst Trave, Glenn Wessels, and many others.

The Annex Galleries, although in its present brick-and-mortar location for 54 years, is virtually unknown to Sonoma County. Because of the small niche we occupy in the art world, dealing primarily in Fine Prints and Works on Paper, our base has been mainly collectors and institutions located on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in Europe. For nearly four decades, the gallery exhibited yearly in up to twelve art fairs around the country, including New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Antonio, Seattle, Portland, two in San Francisco, San Diego, and two in Los Angeles, as well as a number of others. However, those days have ceased for a variety of reasons.

Now, as one of the last Fine Print galleries in the U.S. focusing on the last two centuries, we are being “discovered” by collectors in California and the Western states. We have also done dozens of gallery exhibitions over the decades, many which have helped in creating markets for the subjects of the shows, e.g.: Gustave Baumann, William S. Rice, the prints of Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular, women printmakers, and printmakers of the W.P.A. to name a few. We decided it was time to once again offer a salon-style exhibition featuring a cross section of the work we have in inventory so the public can get re-acquainted with the gallery.

This exhibition is also our chance to give people new ways to enjoy the gallery. We will be hosting a weekly walk-through tour on Saturdays beginning at 3 p.m., guided by gallery owner Daniel Lienau. We have also incorporated QR codes to the framed works’ traditional labeling (artist name, medium, dates, price, etc.): simply scan a favorite artwork’s QR code using your phone, and you’ll be taken directly to that artwork on our website. This provides viewers with further information on the art and artist, as well as the option to keep track of works you’d like to revisit on your own time by saving the webpage to your bookmarks.

The Annex Galleries is open Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sundays by appointment.