Everything That Rises Must Converge, 2005
Benny Andrews & Flannery O'Connor |
Six color etchings and afterword by Benny Andrews. The setting of the story by Flannery O'Connor Georgia in the mid 20th Century.
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- Six color etchings, limited to 300 copies
- Each volume signed by Benny Andrews
- Single volume, 17" x 22"
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Portfolio: |
- Six color etchings
- Numbered edition of 60
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See images of the etchings in the Benny Andrews Gallery. |
Music, Deep Rivers In My Soul, 2003
Maya Angelou, Dean Mitchell & Wynton Marsalis |
The first publication of this book-length original poem about Jazz by Maya Angelou is illustrated with 6 full-page etchings richly colored in aquatint by Dean Mitchell. Printed with the assistance of master printer Peter Pettengill at his Wingate Studio, in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, the after word written by Mitchell describes the relationship of his images to Angelou's poem. This complex multi-arts publication is further enhanced by a CD containing a new original recording by renowned composer and performer Wynton Marsalis. The CD was created in response to "Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul" and includes Angelou's reading of the poem as well. Edition limited to 400 signed and numbered copies by all three collaborators.
See images of the etchings in the Dean Mitchell Gallery. |
Down By The Riverside, 2001
Richard Wright & John Wilson |
Down By the Riverside is a beautiful fine press edition of one of the five stories that constituted Richard Wright's first book Uncle Tom's Children (1930). The text, selected by the well-known Boston printmaker John Wilson, is illustrated with four highly emotional full-page original etchings with aquatint in black and blue, specially created for this publication. The expressionist washes of aquatint fully match in intensity the artist's conception of the dark, brooding, murky atmosphere of the story. The colors of the binding, lettering and lining of book and box repeat the colors of the prints by a timely African American livre d'artiste. Edition is limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. |
Bookmarks In The Pages Of Life, 2000
Zora Neal Hurston & Bety Saar |
Extraordinary portfolio of six signed and numbered original serigraph prints, printed on special handmade paper; conceived as illustrations to six stories by Zora Neale Hurston, also selected by the artist. Each print individually signed and numbered in pencil by Saar. Powerful complex collage images created of fabric and old photographs are here beautifully silk-screened in color and tones of sepia on hand-torn heavy Rosaspina paper (imbued with cinnamon bark), a paper also specially selected by the artist. Printed at Drexel Press, the books are accompanied by a title page, list of print titles, and a colophon page. All aspects of this print series supervised directly by Saar. The images constitute a meditation on African-American identity. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies and signed by Saar in the colophon. |
Sunrise Is Coming After While, 1998
Langston Hughes & Phoebe Beasley |
Beasley collaborated with Dr Maya Angelou, in which she created several serigraphs from poems by Langston Hughes for a limited edition book. Dr Angelou selected the poems and titled the masterful compilation. She then wrote the forwards on Hughes and Beasley. Six original full-page collage-like silk-screens were created by Beasley to illustrate this selection of Hughes's poetry. Hand set typography by Michael Bixler in Perpetua, a typeface designed in the 1920's by Eric Gill. The fine-press book is finished with purple raw silk covered boards with gilt lettered leather title label, inset, in larger matching silk-covered box portfolio case lined in black velvet. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. |
Poems, 1996
Léopold Sédar Senghor & Louis Mailou Jones |
The lush, exotic diction of Senghor's poetry finds its ideal complement in the vibrant paintings of Lois Mailou tones, one of America's most celebrated Black artists Four of Seoghor's poems in the original French and in English translation, hand-set in English Monotype Bodoni, illustrated by five dramatic original full page silkscreen prints by Lois Mailou Jones, including a portrait of Senghor Gold stamped lettering on purple linen covered boards, in black linen covered box, the edition is limited to 300 numbered copies and are all signed by Senghor and Jones. |
The Revelaton Of Saint John The Divine, 1995
Allan Rohan Crite |
An important contemporary Afro-American revisualization of the apocalyptic Biblical, the text has inspired so many artists and writers such as Dante, Durer and Milton Fifteen original relief engravings by Crite are printed on Japanese paper, mounted on handmade heavyweight Italian paper The volume is hand bound in burgundy linen The hinged box, covered in black Italian cotton, is inset with Nigerian goatskin bearing the title stamped in 22-karat gold Edition is limited to 400 numbered and each book is signed by Crite. |
Our Grandmothers, 1994
Maya Angelou & John Biggers |
A special edition of Angelou's favorite poem, I Shall Not Be Moved, illustrated at her request with five specially created original lithographs by John Biggers. A beautiful African-American livre d'artiste, the book is printed on a mould-made Arches paper, uniquely created for this edition. Edition is limited to 400 copies, which are signed by Angelou and Biggers. The books are hand bound in Japanese linen dyed the hue of red Georgia clay, in a matching linen covered box. |
For My People, 1992
Margaret Walker & Elizabeth Catlett |
To illustrate Margaret Walker's best-known poem, For My People, Elizabeth Catlett has created five colorful lithographs. Beautifully striking, Catlett's images borrow from the African tradition of using form to communicate spirit or purpose.
Each of the poem's ten stanzas was hand-set in thirty-point Albertus type, a sans-serif face that looks as if chiseled out of granite. The text was printed letterpress on French-made Arches cover paper. The book is bound in imported red Japanese linen over heavy boards. The box is covered in black cotton. Each book is signed by Margaret Walker and Elizabeth Catlett and the edition is limited to 400 numbered copies. |
The Book of Genisis, 1989
Jacob Lawrence |
Selected by Lawrence as his first choice of books to illustrate, this King James edition of the Bible's first book is one of the most magnificent of Lawrence's illustrated books, and a worthy edition to the long and illustrious history of illustration inspired by this Biblical text. The images in the foreground and background shut and change in each successive print against the shifting screen of preacher and congregation. Large folio (17 x 22 1/4 inches), gilt lettered midnight blue cloth, in black cotton-covered folding box Edition of 400 numbered copies, signed by Lawrence. |
Hiroshima, 1983
John Hersey & Jacob Lawrence |
Lawrence was commissioned by the Limited Editions Club of New York to produce eight images as illustrations for a limited-edition book of his choosing. The artist chose John Hersey's Hiroshima. The text was originally published in the New Yorker; June 1946. Lawrence's gouache and tempera paintings make moving statements on man's inhumanity to man. The special edition book is limited to 1,500 copies. The portfolio and book include a signed poem by Robert Penn Warren and is signed on the colophon page by all three collaborators. |
Poems Of The Caribbean, 1983
Derek Walcott & Romare Bearden |
Poems of the Caribbean is a distinctive book in many ways With an introduction by Joseph Brodsky and illustrations by the distinguished artist Romare Bearden, this volume presents the work of Derek Walcott in a new light, one as bright and striking as the Caribbean sky.
The physical construction and design of the work are the result of careful planning and consideration. Use of sixteen point size Bembo type, the printing of type pages at the Anthonensen Press, and the reproduction of illustrations by the Seaboard Lithograph Company contribute to the beauty of this volume Bearden's personal design of the fabric that appears on the cover required fifteen separate hand-cut silk screens. The firm of Ratti d performed this work in Como, Italy. The book is limited to 2,000 copies. |
