During the summer months, I will be focusing on the graphic arts in America, presenting new works by American printmakers already in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection and adding three new artists who are known primarily for their prints to the Sacred Artists listings. To launch the series I have selected a wood engraving by Printmaker and Book Illustrator Bernard Brussel-Smith of the artisan-inventor who did more than anyone else in the Western World to make works of art in multiple copies available to a mass audience: Johannes Gutenberg, the 15th-century German goldsmith, whose invention of the printing press revolutionized the way images could be reproduced. Ironically enough, Brussel-Smith has created this homage to the forerunner of modern graphic art using a detailed and time-consuming process more akin to woodblock printmaking before the Gutenberg era. This new wood engraving of Gutenberg joins other prints by Brussel-Smith in the gallery of his profile page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)