Screenprint in black with hand coloring, 30¾ x 22⅜ in. No. 84/100.
Ben Shahn was a visiting lecturer at Smith College when I was an undergraduate there. I was taken by his presence and his attitude about art as a statement of justice and humanity.…
Provenance: Inscribed by the author, with A.N.S. to collector Robert White.
This was one of my first discoveries from a press whose books delighted me, and about which I could find almost no information. I was inspired to research their history and…
Designed by Dali, etched by Stanley William Hayter, plate: 17⅝ x 11¼ in.; sheet: 22⅝ x 15¼ in. Engraved on Whatman wove paper and signed by Dali. Edition of 260.
Depictions and accounts of the myth of St. George and the Dragon have appeared in…
Edited with an introduction by John Carter.
Provenance: John Carter, with his manuscript corrections and revisions; then John Sparrow, with his signature.
Labeled in John Carter's hand “2nd proof corrected” on the half-title and “final proof” on the…
Begun in 1976, my collection of American prints spans the period from 1900 to World War II, with a particular emphasis on the 1930s. Between 1929 and 1933, Gerald Geerlings created a series of masterful urban images. A…
Although not widely known today, Belle Silveira Gorski made this beautiful, captivating portrait of an unknown sitter in the early 1900s. Drawn with great technical skill, the image proves how the humble pencil can…
Provenance: Julian and Grace Boyd, with an inscription by the author.
I am interested in the history of American book collecting and especially in the movement of books and manuscripts in the last century from private collections into public…
Scroll: 2¼ x 20½ in., pagoda: 8¼ x 3¼ in.
The oldest accurately datable, block printed-text on paper is recorded on miniature scrolls, or dhārāni (mantras), that Japanese Empress Shōtoku (718–770) commissioned to express her gratitude for the…