[1] Crown Point Press is widely credited with sparking the revival of etching as a viable art medium.
[2] Some of the most important artists of our time, including John Cage, Chuck Close, Anish Kapoor, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith and Pat Steir, have worked there.
[3] In 1956, Brown left Antioch College in Ohio for one year to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.
After graduating from Antioch College in 1958,[4] Brown returned to the Central School for another year to fine-tune her technique.
[5] In the summer of 1959, while on a holiday trip to Edinburgh, Brown noticed an old etching press in the backyard of her rooming house.
With the etching press in tow, Brown booked passage on a freighter going to San Francisco from Glasgow via the Panama Canal.
In recent years, Brown has shifted much of her focus to writing and left the day-to-day operations of the press to director Valerie Wade who is a partner in the business.