Description
Jack Stauffacher was a printmaker and founder of the Greenwood Press, a book printing press based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Stauffacher became involved with printing at an early age after purchasing a fifteen dollar printing press out of the back of a magazine. In 1935, he entered the San Francisco Arts Association at eighteen years old after becoming interested in documentary films. He designed and published his first work, a sixteen page 800-issue run catalogue, in 1949. Stauffacher's brother created Art in Cinema and Stauffacher himself witnessed the development of this project and assisted with the printing. In 1998 the SFMOMA held a show for his works in illustration and printing. In this interview, Stauffacher discusses the first Art in Cinema catalogue, interest in painting, influence of his brother, early SFMOMA experiences, Grace McCann Morley, Frank Stauffacher's illness, Mullican exhibition, Stanford University Press, bookbinding exhibition at SFMOMA and his first show at the museum.