About Us

Jan Johnson, Old Master & Modern Prints, Inc. was founded in 1979 by its owner and director, Jan Johnson, after six years in the print department of P & D Colnaghi, London, and three previous years of print research in European museum collections. The company began with Old Master prints, and on moving from London to Montreal in 1982 it expanded into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Canadian prints.

We offer a wide-ranging, well-researched stock, with an emphasis on fine impressions in excellent condition. Major names are usually represented, but our taste also runs to the less obvious. That variety lets us offer a wide range of prices and welcome collectors at every level.

This website shows only part of our stock, so please tell us about your interests and we will send you a focused list. You can email us, or join our mailing list.

Other services include acting at auction for clients and performing appraisals. Visitors are welcome to view stock at our premises in the Montreal region by appointment.

We have taken part in international print fairs for many years and were a founding member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association. Our clients include many of the great museums of Europe and North America.

Portrait of Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson

Museum clients

Some of the museums we have worked with:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
  • Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
  • British Museum
  • Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University
  • Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
  • Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Fondation Custodia, Paris
  • Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA
  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
  • Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
  • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • New York Public Library
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Portland Art Museum
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Rhode Island School of Design Museum
  • Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
  • Snite Research Center, University of Notre Dame
  • Speed Art Museum, Louisville
  • Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
  • University of San Diego
  • Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
  • Worcester Art Museum
  • Yale University Art Gallery
  • Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey