RE Townsend Studios, Georgetown, MA.
Robert Townsend is a master printmaker in Georgetown, Massachusetts. He attended the New England School of Art and graduated in 1969. His interest in the intaglio process began with master printers at Impressions Workshop in 1968. In 1978, Robert established R. E. Townsend Studio in Georgetown, MA. He has worked as a master printer at Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida; Carpenter Center, Harvard University; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; Amherst College, Amherst, MA; and The Brooks School, North Andover, MA.
Over the past forty-five years, the RE Townsend studio has worked with Arion Press, Jim Dine, Michael Mazur, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn, Alex Katz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joseph Goldyne, Bruce Conner, Peter Milton, Joan Snyder, Aaron Fink, Andrew Stevovich, John Walker and Joel Janowitz and others, with exhibits at The Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA, Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA, and the Winfisky Gallery at Salem State, MA.
Presently, Robert works with Don Govertt and others, and the Don Gorvett Gallery has initiated several exhibits featuring the RE Townsend collection.
1976, Vaino Kola, Noton Woods, etching and aquatint, edition 60, size 35.5 x 47.75 in $2,800
Peter Milton, Time with Celia, Aquatint etching and engraving, edition 170, plate size 30 x 23.7 in. $3,000
1984, Jim Dine ' Temple of Flora' published by Arion Press. 29 prints 12 x18 in, signed Printers proofs by Jim Dine. Drypoint and electric tools. Inspired by Dr. Robert Thorton's Temple of Flora' 1807. Printed at R. E. Townsend Studio, Georgetown, Ma. 1984. $ 60,000
1994, Peter Milton, Mary's Turn I, Visiting Degas, Aquatint etching and engraving, bon a’ tirer, plate size 18 x 28 in. $4,200
1994, Peter Milton, Daylilies, Aquatint etching and engraving, edition 160, plate size 18 x 28, $15,000
1969, Peter Milton, October Piece II, Lift-ground and hard-ground etching and engraving, edition 70, plate size 17.5 x 31.75, $3,500