On Exhibit: "A Visual Feast"

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Bromer Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our next exhibition, "A Visual Feast: The Art of Laura Davidson and David Esslemont", on Thursday, February 21st, with a cocktail reception from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. The exhibit brings together prints, watercolors, woodcuts, calligraphy, drawing, and bookbinding to create a tableau of book artistry.
 
Based out of Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood, Laura Davidson centers her work on past-made-present, using found objects and soft textures to imbue her work with nostalgia. She expresses her talents through a range of media, including books, drawings, prints, paper mosaics, and paper sculptures. 
 
David Esslemont, born in England and currently a resident of northeast Iowa, focuses much of his artistic attention on the interaction between nature, art, and humanity. He often directly engages with nature in order to best present its nuanced beauty, and participates in his own visual narratives in his series of “food” books.
 
The exhibition will be on view until May 3rd, 2019. Learn more about the gallery and the artistry and craftsmanship of Laura Davidson and David Esslemont's work on the Bromer Gallery website, gallery.bromer.com.

Featured Books

  • Sonnets Five.

    Sonnets Five.

    Bexhill-on-Sea, England: Gordon Murray, 1986. (26)pp. One of 50 copies hand-illuminated and signed by the artist. Illustrated with sixteen tipped-in floral watercolors, each painted against a gold ground. The endpapers show panoramic watercolor landscapes: one a river scene, and one an Elizabethan village. Text printed in brown, with initials hand-colored...

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  • Beginning to End. A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett.

    Beginning to End. A Selection from the works of Samuel Beckett.

    NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. Adapted by Samuel Beckett and Jack MacGowran. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey, printed in blue. Fine in patterned paper over boards. (Toledano B76b).

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  • The Tempest.

    The Tempest.

    Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1993. Octavo. x, 107pp. One of 40 copies in bindings hand-painted by Carolyn Hammer and Paul Holbrook, from an edition of 75 copies printed by Hammer, in Victor Hammer's American Uncial typeface, the rest (in marbled boards) of which were given away as gifts. With initialed...

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  • Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell; together with The Chase. A Poem. By William Somerville.

    Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell; together with The Chase. A Poem. By...

    London: W. Bulmer, 1795; 1796. Quarto. Two books bound together in one volume: xx, 76; xv, vii, 126pp. First editions thus. With a fore-edge painting by the "double-line" painter depicting the pastoral village of Lissoy where Oliver Goldsmith spent his youth, standing in for the pseudonymous town of Auburn in...

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  • Facsimile of the Cranach Press Hamlet.

    Facsimile of the Cranach Press Hamlet.

    NY: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972. Folio. 202, (5)pp. Publisher's facsimile of the famed edition of Hamlet issued by the Cranach Press in 1929. With reprints of Edward Johnston's typography, Edward Gordon Craig's 74 woodcuts, and Eric Gill's contributions of two initials, the title over the first woodcut, and spine titling...

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  • Shall I Die? Shall I Fly?

    Shall I Die? Shall I Fly?

    (Boston): Anne and David Bromer, 1986. (11)ff. One of 160 copies printed at the Firefly Press and illuminated on the title page by Suzanne Moore. This is the publisher's copy, so indicated in Moore's calligraphy on the colophon page. This Elizabethan poem was discovered in a manuscript in 1985 and...

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  • The Merchant of Venice.

    The Merchant of Venice.

    Cincinnati: Mosaic Press, (1982). (24)pp. This tiny, tiny edition contains only Portia's "quality of mercy" speech, quite legibly printed. Fine in tan leather with gilt titling and ornament. (Bradbury, p. 159). (9/16 by 1/2; 14x12mm).

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  • Hamlet.

    Hamlet.

    Rome: Delfino, (1985). Folio. 106pp. According to the colophon, this is one of 1,200 copies. Illustrated with ten color lithographs after drawings by Henry Moore. The editor, Dr. Stanley Wells, notes in the Foreword that this work reveals an "unsuspected spiritual kinship between one of the greatest visual artists of...

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  • Longes mac n-Usnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech.

    Longes mac n-Usnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of...

    (Dublin): Dolmen Press, 1954. Tall octavo. 32pp. One of 225 copies. Printed in black with red initials and with a decorative title-page spread, two full-page illustrations, and six pictorial headpieces by Mia Cranwill. The tragic myth of Deirdre and the sons of Usnech, who were slain by the jealous Conchobor...

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  • Works.

    Works.

    (Leipzig: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1925-1931). Seven volumes, a complete set as published. One of 250 copies. Only 200 copies of the seventh volume were printed. The dedication notes that this edition was produced as an homage to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and the German editions of Goëthe printed at the Doves Press.......

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  • Mite Series in Tartan.

    Mite Series in Tartan.

    Glasgow: Bryce, David, & Son, (c. 1900-1905). Five miniature volumes. (127); (127); (240); (384); (127)pp. The volumes included are: Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; Witty, Humorous, and Merry Thoughts; Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect; The Smallest English Dictionary in the World; and Old English, Scotch, and Irish...

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  • The Works of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes.

    The Works of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes.

    Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-1906. Ten quarto volumes. This is one of only twelve sets printed on pure vellum with a frontispiece illustration in each volume. It represents a monumental undertaking, which took four years to complete and consumed about 250 sheets for each of the twelve copies printed on...

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