World House Profile

From 1998 to 2002 Donald Taglialatella operated his itinerant World House Gallery, holding roving exhibitions for the artists he represented in temporary and disused spaces throughout SoHo and Chelsea in New York City.  At the same time, in 1998 he founded his World House Editions imprint, which since 2002 has been his public face in the art world.  World House Editions is a publisher of limited edition prints, portfolios, multiple objects, photographs and video works by an eclectic group of international artists.  We are strictly a publisher – not a printer – and collaborate closely with the artists we publish and work with a select group of contract print workshops and fabricators in the U.S. and Europe in order to realize our projects. Based in a two-story 1940s converted carriage house in the small town of Middlebury, Connecticut since 2006, we are open by appointment only. World House Editions is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) and the Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art (CINOA) in good standing.  Additionally, Donald Taglialatella is a member of the Association of Print Scholars and also sits on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Projects/editions by World House Editions have been acquired by and/or exhibited at the following:

Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; British Museum, London, England; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (Mamco); Microsoft Art Collection, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Progressive Corporation Art Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio; Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Cleveland Clinic Art Program, Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut; Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Arts, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia; Hallmark Art Collection, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Hess Corporation, New York; Le Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland; International Print Center New York, New York; Wellmark BlueCross Blue Shield Corporate Art Collection, Des Moines, Iowa; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida; UBS Art Collection, New York; New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; The Grolier Club, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Daimler Collection, Stuttgart, Germany; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of The New York Public Library, New York; University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland.

In addition to our publishing program, we also specialize in the resale of high-quality post-war and contemporary international paintings, sculpture, photographs and works on paper. Our historical expertise is The Cobra group.  World House Gallery handles works by such artists as: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, John Armleder, Arman, Georg Baselitz, Mike Bidlo, Louise Bourgeois, James Brooks, Alexander Calder, Constant, Corneille, Robert Cottingham, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Flavin, Sylvie Fleury, Lucio Fontana, Mark Francis, Antony Gormley, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Hans Hartung, Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, Asger Jorn, Donald Judd, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, William Kentridge, Per Kirkeby, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Brice Marden, Ryan McGinness, Tracey Moffatt, Bruce Nauman, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Pablo Picasso, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Marc Quinn, Reinhoud, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, Rudolf Stingel, Frank Stella, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall and Christopher Wool.

Finally, Donald Taglialatella is presently compiling and editing the catalogue raisonné of the prints of the American Photorealist artist Robert Cottingham (b.1935), which will be published by Lund Humphries in association with World House Editions.

Literature:

Staff.  “Swoon’s IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online Picks” article in Artsy, 10/29/20.

Staff.  “Dale Chihuly’s IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online Picks”  article in Artsy, 10/28/20.

Bercuzk, Robert.  “Norwalk’s Center for Contemporary Printmaking Welcomes Board Member“, article in Norwalk Daily Voice, 7/31/15, also follow the link here.

Wye, Deboarah and Wendy Weitman.  Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now.  2006, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, p.305.

Rexer, Lyle. “Romancing the Stone, Printmaking is fashionable in the hands of artist Beverly Semmes“, article in Art on Paper, Sept/Oct 2005, no.39-40.