La Cienega gallery-goers who think the action stops at Melrose obviously don’t know O. P. Reed. Those who do know him apply such phrases as “nice guy,” “great storyteller of the Los Angeles art world, past and present,” and to this should be added “thoroughly knowledgeable dealer in prints and drawings.”
His office (by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a gallery) contains a cluttered desk, a few tables, pipe rack, boxes of prints, and a library of print reference books a museum would envy. There are also a few framed prints and drawings on the walls. Among these is an exceedingly rare proof of an unpublished Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, Cycle Michael, originally intended as a poster to advertise a cyclist race. His inventory of prints and drawings ranges from early and rare German and Italian woodcuts to modern European and American offerings.
—Virginia Allen
