1971. An original illustration capturing a moment of protest by the black community. A Black man is depicted pointing, with a posture that suggests purpose and urgency. The illustration is finely executed in mixed media, including tempera, watercolor, conté crayon, pen, and ink over graphite on board. Dated with "AMR"..... More
1971. An original illustration capturing a moment of protest by the black community, showing a young Black man raising his fist in a timeless and insistent gesture of power and belief. Jarring in its continued relevancy, the illustration is finely executed in mixed media, including tempera, watercolor, conté crayon, pen..... More
(N.p. 1988). Offset lithographic poster. Conal, a self-described guerrilla poster artist, here captures conflation under the Reagan Administration of hyper-militarization, Nicaraguan Contras, and the War on Drugs. Against a camouflage background, a suited skeleton gazes out, perhaps as if a dehumanized victim, perhaps as if a soulless political perpetrator. The..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: People's Hard Drugs Committee, (c. 1975). Poster. An ominous image, showing Uncle Sam opening an enormous pill, the contents of which—needles and yet more pills—bury a crowd. Those unburied drag the inert bodies of the victims out of the rubble. A riff on the "controlled substance" designation..... More
Berkeley, CA: Royal Chicano Air Force, 1977. Poster. A provocative border of chains circling outstretched hands provides sharp visual contrast to the two quotations set within it. The first quotation cites the United States Constitution's 13th Amendment, which abolishes slavery, and the second pulls from Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Emancipation Proclamation..... More
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2021. A selection of art prints, postcard-sized, by Hirschman, all signed on verso by him. Hirschman was a Beat poet, passionate about the anti-war and Black liberation movements, and the prints represent a sampling of a larger project by him; from 1976 to 1988, he..... More
Paris: Three Star Books, 2018. Square folio. (50)ff. One of forty copies, signed by the artist, A.A. Bronson. Fifty identical tearaway posters of “AIDS,” using an appropriative design based on Robert Indiana’s 1967 “LOVE.” The relation of AIDS to love, both conceptually and artistically, and its adaptation into a repetitive..... More
1986. Twenty-seven assorted art pieces, including xerographs, lithographs, mixed-media collages, and prints, accompany nine text pieces to present an alternative catalogue of the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The book supplemented the exhibition, “Art for AIDS: A Creative Response to Crisis,” which took place from October 10 to November..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... More
(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the..... More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna: Propyläen, 1973. Folio. (30)ff., + 26 plates laid in. One of sixty copies. Each plate is signed and numbered by the artist. The twenty-six color etchings each depict a letter of the alphabet in a bizarre, fantastic, and sometimes grotesque manner fitting the excerpt from Joyce's..... More
(N.p. Janus Press, 1955; 1980. Small octavo. (vi), 45, (2)pp. Inscribed twice by the author. The first book of the Janus Press, with a frontispiece woodcut and two additional cuts by Claire Van Vliet, whose imagery adopts a classical motif to echo the highbrow sentiments of Theobald's verses. A promising..... More
Stuttgart, Germany: Julius Hoffmann, (1905). Small folio. (25) ff. Jewelry catalog comprised of a title leaf and 24 loose plates, enclosed in a cloth portfolio. Approximately a dozen art nouveau jewelry designs, including necklaces, rings, bracelets, and haircombs, are featured on each beautifully-detailed monotone plate. Plates printed by A. Calavas..... More
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Four woodcut initials, separately matted and framed, from the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels. The "I", "A", "O", and "T" appear as part of symmetrical black-and-white designs, with lines falling in simple sweeps and patterend with dots and stars..... More
(N.p,): 1927. Pencil, colored chalk, heightened with white on buff wove paper, measuring 11 by 15 inches. Signed and dated to left of sitter's foot. Additionally dated in upper right corner "11. 4. 27". As a fine artist, Jones is perhaps best-known for his landscapes and religious iconography; early in..... More
(Wales): 1980. Print measuring 20 by 17 inches. One of 50 copies. A delicate eight-pointed star radiates light, in shades of blue and tan. Signed by the artist. A renowned Welsh book artist, Jones has dedicated herself to the art of printing both words and images. With a blue mat..... More
(Wales): 1980. Print measuring 20 by 17 inches. One of 50 copies. A luminous print in green and violet of a hyacinth, signed by the artist. The flower blooms against layers of overlapping leaves, which lighten into transparency as they extend upwards. A renowned Welsh book artist, Jones has dedicated..... More
(Wales): 1980. Print measuring 20 by 17 inches. One of 50 copies. A bold color aquatint in brown, yellow, and tan, signed by the artist. This slightly abstracted sunflower is subtly shaded and textured. The flower's head is cradled within two outstretched leaves. A renowned Welsh book artist, Jones has..... More
c. 2014. Watercolor on paper measuring 8 1/4 by 11 3/4 inches (image area 4 1/8 by 3 1/4 inches). Matted. The illustration reproduced from this watercolor appears on page 45 of the printed work, accompanying the following text: "And some few small aunts, not wanted in the kitchen, nor..... More
1935. Watercolor on paper measuring 13 by 9 1/4 inches, signed by Kent in the lower right margin, along with the inscription, "to his friend Charly Mortensen, 1935." Mortensen was the telegraph operator aboard the Hans Egede, the ship on which Kent made two of his three celebrated voyages to..... More
Northampton, MA: Double Elephant Press. Triptych broadside, presented as three sheets plus slip for title. All sheets signed by Kuch. Three woodcuts encourage the viewer toward active citizenship, twisting the three R's of learning into the three R's of civic engagement: Rise Up, Resist, and Reject. Sheets held by magnets..... More
Northampton, MA: 2022. Etching on paper. Unframed. Walnut frame included for an additional $125. (Print measures 7 by 10 1/2 in.). More
Northampton, MA: 2022. Etching on paper. Unframed. Walnut frame included for an additional $125. (Print measures 7 by 8 1/2 in.). More
