Riverhouse Editions was established in 1988 as a publisher of fine prints — specifically etchings and monotypes — working with top international artists and master printers.

Based in the Rocky Mountains in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the artist's workshop is set in an inspiring environment, with the artist spending two to three weeks working with the master printer and staff in the soon-to-be expanded 4000 square foot etching workshop and gallery. The new facilities will include a photo etching darkroom, a separate etching and aquatint room, a lithography area, woodshop, and large artist workspace, as well as the main print room fitted with a 10 foot long Takach etching press.

Riverhouse was founded by William van Straaten, a long-established fine print dealer, and his wife Jan. The workshop, headed by master printer Susan Hover Oehme, has produced more than 2,000 etchings, aquatints, drypoints, photogravures and monotypes by more than 44 prominent artists, including Sol LeWitt, Katherine Bowling, John Walker and Lynda Benglis. Among the master printers who also have worked with Riverhouse are Patricia Branstead, Gregory Burnet, Betty Winkler and Joseph Montague.

Riverhouse prints appear in museums and major galleries in the U.S. and Europe, as well as other collections throughout the world of contemporary art. They are exhibited at international art fairs in Basel, Switzerland, Chicago, San Francisco, and at the International Fine Print Dealers Association Fine Print Fair and Works on Paper Show in New York each year.

In 1992, Riverhouse made the decision to reserve one proof of each new edition as a "college proof," to be made available to a college or university for the purpose of teaching about printmaking. More than 100 such proofs have been made available to date, most of which have been donated to Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Contemporary Art. A major retrospective show was mounted in their new gallery in 2001.

Recently, Riverhouse formed another relationship with the University of Denver, and van Straaten and Oehme give lectures and printmaking demonstrations at the School of Art, and in addition loan selected college proofs to the university.