A Chamber of Commerce re-introduction to a 54 year old Santa Rosa Institution

The Annex Galleries is inviting all the members of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce to a special exhibition we have titled “DISCOVERING A 54 YEAR OLD SANTA ROSA INSTITUTION”. Saturday, December 6, 2025 – One to Five p.m.

The exhibition opens to the general public on Saturday, November 15 and continues through February 14, 2026.

There will be a walk-through of the exhibition by the owner, Daniel Lienau, at three p.m. every Saturday.

The exhibition, which opens to the general public on November 15, will feature around 100 works, a curated selection of the kinds of art the gallery has been representing for fifty four years. Some of the artists include:

Gustave Baumann (we have represented his estate for 48 years); John Taylor Arms; Rembrandt van Rijn; Francisco Goya; Marc Chagall; Nathan Oliveira; Joan Miro; J.A.M. Whistler; Ian Hugo; Pablo Picasso; Maurice Lapp; James Rosen; W.S. Rice; J.D. Smillie; Horst Trave, Glenn Wessels and many others.

The gallery website, founded in 2001, catalogs 7,400 works currently available in the gallery: www.annexgalleries.com.

The Annex Galleries, although in its present “brick and mortar” location for 54 years, is virtually unknown to the local population. Because of the small niche we occupy in the art world, dealing primarily in Fine Prints and Works on Paper, our base has been mainly collectors and institutions located in the East Coast, Midwest, and Europe. The gallery exhibited yearly in up to twelve art fairs around the country, including New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Antonio, Seattle, Portland, two in San Francisco, San Diego, and two in Los Angeles, as well as a number of others. However, those days have ceased for a variety of reasons.

Now, as one of the last Fine Print galleries in the U.S. focusing on the last two centuries, we are being “discovered” by collectors in California and the Western states. We have also done dozens of gallery exhibitions over the decades, many which have helped in creating markets for the subjects of the shows, i.e.: Gustave Baumann, William S. Rice, the prints of Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular, women printmakers, and printmakers of the W.P.A. to name a few.

We decided it was time to once again offer a salon-style exhibition featuring a cross section of the work we have in inventory so the public can get re-acquainted with the gallery.

The Annex Galleries is open Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sundays by appointment. Hope to see you here.