History
The magazine was founded in New York City in 1968 as The Print Collectors Newsletter by Paul Cummings, with Judith Goldman as editor. Within a year, Cummings sold it to Jacqueline Brody, who remained publishing it until 1996.
From the very start, the title The Print Collectors Newsletter, was a misnomer. The newsletter covered limited-edition prints—from the Renaissance to the present—but it also published on artists' books, multiples, ephemera, and photography. An issue typically included a feature story or interview, industry news, reviews of recently released prints or photographs, auction reports, and book reports. Contributors included Holland Cotter, Richard Field, Nancy Princenthal, and others.
In 1996, Gabriella Fanning, the former editor of the art magazine Contemporanea, purchased The Print Collectors Newsletter. She changed the name to On Paper, converted it to a journal format, and expanded its coverage to include drawings. Two years later, in 1998, she changed the publication's title and format again, this time to a full-color glossy magazine titled Art on Paper.
Fanning sold the title in 2004 to Darte Publishing LLC, a company established by the magazine's then editor, Peter Nesbett, and two partners. Darte Publishing published "Art on Paper" through December 2009, when the magazine ceased publication.
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