Title
Marbled paper, Bouquet pattern.
Coverage
Peggy Skycraft (b. 1941) and Jack Townes (b. 1953)
Date
1990
Subject
Proprietary acrylic and pigment paint on Permalin Multicolor paper
Description
Peggy Skycraft (who first learned marbling from Pauline Johnson’s Creative Bookbinding), active 1969-2011, and her husband Jack Townes, of Estacada, Oregon, became two of the most prolific paper artists of the era. Skycraft’s artistry and Townes’s ingenuity resulted in copious amounts of beautiful marbled, paste, and painted papers. At the height of their business, they produced up to 30,000 sheets annually for licensing and commercial use. Surplus papers were sold through art venues nationwide.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Skycraft and Jack Townes