Cane
Artist: Martin Puryear (American, born 1941)
Publisher: The Arion Press, San Francisco, California
Author: Jean Toomer (American, 1894-1967)
Designer: Andrew Hoyem (American)
Date: 2000
Dimensions:
page: 11 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (292 x 251mm)
book: 11 13/16 x 14 3/16 in. (300 x 360mm)
slipcase: 13 3/4 x 15 1/16 in. (350 x 383mm)
sheet: 16 13/16 x 20 5/8 in. (427 x 524mm)
portfolio: 18 3/16 x 21 13/16 in. (462 x 554mm)
Medium: Book with 10 woodblock prints and letterpress text, plus portfolio of 7 woodblock prints, housed in artist’s wooden slipcase
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 2001.4A
DescriptionThis artists' book is bound in full leather. The text is letterpress printed on Biblio paper, mouldmade in Germany. The 7 full-page woodcuts and 3 section headers are printed on Kitakata paper, handmade in Japan. The book (special edition only) is housed in a wooden slipcase designed by the artist and constructed in his studio from four woods --African wenge, Swiss pear, American walnut and sugar maple. A signed, numbered, and untrimmed suite of the 7 woodcuts on Kitakata paper is housed in a separate cloth-covered portfolio.
This artists' book is bound in full leather. The text is letterpress printed on Biblio paper, mouldmade in Germany. The 7 full-page woodcuts and 3 section headers are printed on Kitakata paper, handmade in Japan. The book (special edition only) is housed in a wooden slipcase designed by the artist and constructed in his studio from four woods --African wenge, Swiss pear, American walnut and sugar maple. A signed, numbered, and untrimmed suite of the 7 woodcuts on Kitakata paper is housed in a separate cloth-covered portfolio.
This artists' book is bound in full leather. The text is letterpress printed on Biblio paper, mouldmade in Germany. The 7 full-page woodcuts and 3 section headers are printed on Kitakata paper, handmade in Japan. The book (special edition only) is housed in a wooden slipcase designed by the artist and constructed in his studio from four woods --African wenge, Swiss pear, American walnut and sugar maple. A signed, numbered, and untrimmed suite of the 7 woodcuts on Kitakata paper is housed in a separate cloth-covered portfolio.
Not on view