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Mills College, Pacific Center for the Book Arts
Notes: "John DePol, Wood Engraver... Prints & Illustrated Books...Drawings, tools & blocks... Mills College Oakland, California... November-December 1987. Evening Lecture, Thursday, November 19th, co-sponsored by the Pacific Center for the Book Arts. Two-day Workshop, Saturday & Sunday, November 21st & 22nd... Pax et bonum." An engraving in blue ink of the front door of Mills College. initialed in the engraving
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Notes: "Bowne." After-dinner scene of a wine glass left full on a table with two lit candles and a window with curtains in the background. initialed in the engraving
A little rebellion now & then
Broadsides contributed by various printers, chiefly American, and containing words of the Founding Fathers.Housed in navy cloth portfolio, lined with gray paper; title stamped in gold on front board
[Figure holding candle, emerging from cave]
Color wood engraving, with linocut tint block. Print is tipped-on to front cover. Printed message: THE SEASON'S | BEST WISHES | [ornament] | MARIAN AND JACK | WARNICK. Dystopian image and wartime scene may be an illustration of the quote "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness" attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, among others.Original blocks housed at the Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco
The Figure in Contemporary Art
Glossy print promoting an exhibition with a number of guest artists at the University of Northern Iowa, 1984-1985. Full color print of a collage artwork with title in blue over multicolored artist information along bottom border, along with contact information
O FOR A Bowle of Fatt Canary
"A song from the play Campaspe written by John Lyly, first printed in 1632.
The Garden, Mourning
Black and blue on cream paper print of "The Garden, Mourning" by Bruce Whiteman to the right of an engraving by Wagener. Epigraph at the top by Hermann Hesse. Signed on the bottom in pencil by Wagener and Whiteman
Calligraphic letterforms
Black on cream sheet of various letterforms by Lloyd Reynolds, from Reed college in 1962. Signed in blue by Reynolds
Spel Against Demons
Black and red print on white paper of Snyder's "Spel Against Demons", with a red symbol on the right of the text
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Notes: Two women with luggage and a man in a uniform reading a paper. They are inside a room with a window behind them and a door on the right. Initialed in the engraving. Numbered: 55