Title
Marbled paper.
Coverage
Eileen Canning (b. 1937)
Date
1983
Subject
Watercolor on machine-made paper
Description
ileen Canning, active 1977–93, learned marbling from Don Guyot and later founded Dancing Inks in Olympia, Washington, through which she taught Turkish marbling and marbling design. The extremely fine combing seen in this paper is unique to her papers. Canning’s papers and products were sold nationally at art supply stores, gift shops, and trade shows. Occasionally, she created small editions of a single design for fine press publishers, including Arion Press of San Francisco.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Peggy Skycraft