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Artist Martin Puryear (American, born 1941)

Publisher The Arion Press, San Francisco, California

Author Jean Toomer (American, 1894-1967)

Date2000

Dimensionspage: 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)

MediumBook with 10 woodblock prints and letterpress text, plus portfolio of 7 woodblock prints, housed in artist’s wooden slipcase

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

2001.4H

Not on View

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.

Published Referenceshttp://www.arionpress.com/forthcom.htm cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 180 [The following citations illuminate his style and past production.] exhibition catalogues: c.f. Neal David Benezra, Martin Puryear. New York, New York: Thames and Hudson; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1993, c1991). articles: c.f. Goodman, Jonathan, "Martin Puryear," Art News, 94 (September 1995) p. 142-3. c.f. Melrod, George, "Skill, vision, and craft," Art & Antiques 18 (June 1995) p. 39-40+. c.f. Princenthal, Nancy, "Martin Puryear," American Craft v. 52 (February/March 1992) p. 34-7. Reich, Paula, Toledo Museum of Art Map and Guide, London, Scala and Toledo Museum of Art, 2005, p. 63, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryIn Focus: Martin Puryear: May-June 2001 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, PICTURE ID: Contemporary African American Works on Paper, March 14-June 14, 2020.