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Lygia Pape : a multitude of forms : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 21-July 23, 2017; Title from press flye
Armored form : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for an artwork displayed in the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 13, 2017-February 4, 2018; Title from press flye
David Hockney : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 20, 2017-February 25, 2018 Tate Britain, February 9-May 29, 2017 Centre Georges Pompidou, June 19-October 23, 2017; Title from press flye
Rodin at The Met : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 16, 2017-January 15, 2018; Title from press flye
Irving Penn : centennial : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 20 through July 30, 2017, and at the Grand Palais, Paris, from September 2017 through January 2018; Title from press flye
Collection of marbled graphic papers and marbled decorative papers / created by Robert Wu
No full text"[Included] here are the selected patterns of my marbling art that I have created throughout the past 15 years.... My favorite would be the double marbled Willow tree. And my 6 layers of marbled potpourri is not available to be included at this time. Most of the patterns are also available at various colour schemes or combinations and various format at 21" x 31" the largest sheets. I am unable to provide my marbling on Japanese washi kozo sheets at this moment as I have sold all of them. But I have marbled pieces on silk fabric too. Marbling is the ancient technique of painting on water. Colours are added with oxgall to be floated onto a bath of liquid carageenan size. Various combs, rakes and stylus are used to create the patterns. Then, a sheet of alum fixed paper is gently rolled onto the bath in order to pick up the colours. Thus each print is unique and one off. I started marbling for my own bookbinding use since year 2000. The idea of doing marbling as art is not new, but since I love and collect some Japanese prints, most of my compositions are inspired by them. I coined the term "Marbled Graphics" to describe my unique marbling art with lots of white background like the Japanese prints or Chinese paintings and signed with various shapes of my soapstone chops in scarlet clay ink. My marbling technique can be described as fine details with velvety colours which I have discovered and developed through years of working and experimenting to achieve the effect and look I want. I usually name my pieces both before or after I marble. So inspirations come from everywhere and works both ways. For marbling, I am mostly self-taught which is the best way is through trial and error. Here is my brief background. I studied 8 years of architecture at universities to obtain my bachelor and masters degree in architecture. In between, I have attended bookbinding lessons through the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild. Then, I spent a couple of years attending workshops at The American Academy of Bookbinding in Colorado, followed by private intensive training with master binder Tini Miura and various other fine binders such as Monique Lallier, Don Etherington, Gabrielle Fox and Luigi Castiglioni. Collections of my bindings and marbling art can be found worldwide but most notably in Fisher Rare Books Library, Toronto, Harvard University, Michigan, Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, University of Alberta Bruce Peel Library, Osboume Children's library in Toronto, Northwestern University, IL and Yale University, Center for British Art." -- from Artist's Statement, dated May 16, 2017
Box 1. 30 marbled graphic papers. Box 2. 20 marbled decorated paper
A unique collection of old watermarks from the Smoorenburg collection : 165 watermarks on 143 blank paper sheets
No full text"This unique collection of watermarks was composed from a large collection of blank paper sheets dating from the 17th to the 19th Century. I was very lucky to be able to buy this collection from Mr. Smoorenburg from the Netherlands, who collected these sheets over a long period... The historic value was also exciting: paper that was used by some famous artists, paper that was made by papermills from Holland who supplied the paper for the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, and many other remarkable papers...Pictures were made of all the watermarks showing a ruler in millimeters and all the sheets were measured for the description. The stocknumber in the description corresponds to the pictures on the CD-Rom that is included." -- Introduction; "The main part of the collection is paper from Dutch papermills and another part consists of French, English, German and Portugese paper. The earliest paper is from about 1600 by Wendelin Richel from Strasbourg (nr. 105)..." -- Description of the Collection from the catalo
Delirious : art at the limits of reason, 1950-1980 : [press kit]
No full textDigital press kit for the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018; Title from press flye