Toronto: Robert Wu, 2021. Die-cut miniature blank notebook filled with 30 sheets of creamy paper with marbled paper covers. Tied with a postal twine and a sealing wax. For keeping your most ambitious thoughts or ideas. Colors vary. Marbled paper and bindings by Robert Wu. Size: Approximately 5 x 4 inches. Fine. More
Toronto: Studio Robert Wu, 2021. A unique artist's book by Robert Wu, the talented Canadian bookbinder, paper marbler, and stationer. This frothy confection is a testament to Robert's love of Victorian art, decoration, and sentiment. It is signed and dated by him. He has created by hand an album of ephemera using 60 authentic samples of Victorian calling cards, autograph verses, postcards, and photographs from his personal collection. The antique postcards were purchased by Robert at the famed Marché aux Puces in Paris. He has incorporated die cut ornaments of flowers, butterflies and birds, along with decorated papers, ink stamps, postage stamps, and paper cutouts. The album has a section for each category of samples with Robert's calligraphic titles for each section. He also wrote copies of some Victorian verse by hand. The album's covers give a preview of its contents, with decorated papers, an ornate Victorian fan, flowers, and birds. A braided white ribbon decorates the spine and its ends serve as ribbons to tie around the book. The album resides in plain white box with "Victorian Scrap Album" written on a brown label to the cover. A delightful creation in fine condition. Measures 5.5 x 7 inches. Unpaginated [about 40 pages] ARTB/031323. Fine. More
Toronto: Studio Robert Wu, 2021. A unique pop-up book by Robert Wu, a noted bookbinder, paper marbler and stationer residing in Toronto. Robert trained at the American Academy of Bookbinding (AAB) in Colorado with Monique Lallier and at the Canadian Bookbinders and Bookartists Guild (CBBAG) in Toronto. He was the recipient of the first ever Tini Miura scholarship for the study of fine binding at the AAB. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions and can be found in several notable collections including Harvard University. He has also become well-known for his mastery of marbling paper. Marbling is an ancient art of floating colors onto a bath of liquid gelatin and using combs and rakes to manipulate the colors into patterns. His unique designs are each done by hand. As a stationer and paper artist, Robert creates intricate pop-up structures inspired by his love of Victorian art, decoration, and sentiment. This charming work was created as a ornately decorated box that is affixed to a stand of a floral stiff paper, with a gilt die-cut ornamental center. The box has a lid with lovely diecut flowers,a butterfly and a paper ribbon handle with which to open the box. An attached tag handwritten by Robert has the title and author. When the lid is lifted, the sides of the box open up to reveal a confection of small color paper flowers with gilt and glass bead centers. Sitting atop the middle flower is a small brown origami snail. The box's four sides comprise two connected panels - the inner panels are decorated with Robert's marbled papers and various die-cut leaves, a bee, and a butterfly. The outer panels have the handwritten text of Longfellow's sweet poem. In fine condition. Box measures 3.5 inches square. The floral stand is 5 inches square. ARTB/010223. Fine. More
Toronto: Studio Robert Wu, 2021. Paperback. Part of a small unnumbered edition. A sweet handmade folding victorian style fan with the handwritten text: "Kind hearts are gardens. Kind thoughts are roots. Kind words are flowers. Kind deeds are fruits. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." The fan is die-cut from stiff blue paper and edged in gilt with full color floral Victorian cutouts on each page. The floral piece on the front of the fan is a pop up. A blue tassle adorns the clip on the back edge of the fan. The back of the fan is covered in green pastepaper with flecks of gold, which was made by the artist. [5 pages.] Size of fan: about 4.25 x 2 inches. Housed in a white paper covered gift box with handtitled brown paper label to top. Wu trained at the American Academy of Bookbinding (AAB) in Colorado with Monique Lallier and at the Canadian Bookbinders and Bookartists Guild (CBBAG) in Toronto. He was the recipient of the first ever Tini Miura scholarship for the study of fine binding at the AAB and later studied privately with master binder Miura in California. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions and can be found in several notable collections including Harvard University. ARTB/072821. Fine. More
East Hampton, NY: Barry McCallion, 2020. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the book artist on the colophon. This is a striking unique work by noted book artist Barry McCallion. Mr. McCallion has had a lengthy career in the book arts following his graduation from Columbia and move to the west coast for a period of time. His work can be found in many institutional and private collections. His career has been documented in a fine article by Mark Segal in the East Hampton Star in 2013: “A Springs Artist’s Creative Odyssey." In the article, Segal also writes extensively about Mr. McCallion’s "astonishingly beautiful and utterly unique books," saying "they use an impressive range of materials and techniques. … It’s difficult to do justice to the variety and complexity of the books in words or in photographs. They are ideally experienced by hefting and opening the boxes and exploring the contents in what becomes a very personal exploration of an artwork.” In this complex artist's book, Mr. McCallion explores and illustrates this famous poem by William Butler Yeats. "Byzantium" is Irish poet Yeats's meditation on the relationship between mortality and immortality, the physical world and the spiritual world, and humanity and art. The artist writes in his colophon: "Opposites fascinated Yeats - all things antithetical: material, immaterial, changing and changeless, profane and sacred. Byzantium offers the reader Yeats's vision of the complex workings of the flesh and the spirit. In the poem, the great cathedral gong presides, tolling midnight over two worlds: the disdained world of everyday, messy with 'complexities of mire or blood,' and the gold-glittering city of Byzantium, where souls come to be purged." Each page of the book has a line of the poem. Mr. McCallion says that in an attempt to better integrate words and pictures, he cut the words apart and arranged them irregularly on the page. The book is made on Richard de Bas cream wove paper. Brushed India ink colors provide a platform for the work's various drawings, collages, and acrylic paintings. Page edges are untrimmed. The book was bound by Joelle Webber of Mermaid Bindery in dark red cloth with a black image of a dolphin affixed to the cover. Housed in a beige cloth covered clamshell box with a large title label to spine. In fine condition. Book measures 6.75 x 10.25 inches; box measures 7.5- x 11 inches. 40 pages. ARTB/012523. Fine. More
Lincolnville, ME: Dudley Zopp, 2017. Hardcover. Number 8 of 25 copies of a new limited edition book by artist and scholar Dudley Zopp. Signed and numbered by the book artist. Ms. Zopp graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. and M.A. and completed postgraduate studies in Drawing and Painting at the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. She now lives in Lincolnville, Maine. Zopp finds inspiration in geological processes and cultural histories of place. Her engagement with restoring habitat where she lives feeds directly into her work, which ranges from site specific installations to paintings, woodcuts and limited edition books. She has completed residencies at geologically significant sites in Newfoundland, Spain and Italy. She has exhibited widely at galleries, universities and museums in New England and the Midwest. Her work is included in university and museum collections nationally. This book is offered as both a limited edition deluxe set with one of the original signed drawings and as a slipcased set with a limited edition print. This is one of the 25 deluxe boxed copies with the original drawing for Day three and a blue marble. The book considers our relationship to the Earth in a sequence of annotated watercolors. It was originally presented digitally for a 2014 exhibition "Turning in Your Hand: The Blue Marble Project,” at Waterfall Arts in Maine. Twenty artists were given a blue marble and asked to respond to the pale blue dot we call home. Dudley's images and notations provide a unique look into the oldest of concerns: our place in this world (artist's statement). The drawings began with a month-long daily ritual of erasing an earlier charcoal drawing and, using watercolor and ink, creating a new drawing in its place. As part of this Dudley noted the weather and the color of the ocean as seen from her studio. She also added a few lines adapted from ancient Buddhist texts. The resulting 31 watercolors were collected in a mystical and magical book that beautifully captures Dudley's artistic consideration of our place in the world. Design, typography, and assembly of books and cases are by Richard Reitz Smith. Text and images are printed as offset lithography by Penmore Lithographers. The book is presented in an accordion format and can be read in the round or displayed as sculpture.The book, watercolor drawing, and marble are housed in a dark blue cloth clamshell box. Book measures 5 x 7 inches. 82 pages. In fine condition. ARTISTSB/110317. Fine. More
Lincolnville, ME: Dudley Zopp, 2017. Hardcover. Number 10 of 25 standard copies of a new limited edition book by artist and scholar Dudley Zopp. Signed and numbered by the book artist. Ms. Zopp graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. and M.A. and completed postgraduate studies in Drawing and Painting at the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. She now lives in Lincolnville, Maine. Zopp finds inspiration in geological processes and cultural histories of place. Her engagement with restoring habitat where she lives feeds directly into her work, which ranges from site specific installations to paintings, woodcuts and limited edition books. She has completed residencies at geologically significant sites in Newfoundland, Spain and Italy. She has exhibited widely at galleries, universities and museums in New England and the Midwest. Her work is included in university and museum collections nationally. This book is offered as both a limited edition deluxe set of 25 with one of the original signed drawings and marble ,and as a slipcased set of 25 with a limited edition print. of which this is one. The book considers our relationship to the Earth in a sequence of annotated watercolors. It was originally presented digitally for a 2014 exhibition "Turning in Your Hand: The Blue Marble Project,” at Waterfall Arts in Maine. Twenty artists were given a blue marble and asked to respond to the pale blue dot we call home. Dudley's images and notations provide a unique look into the oldest of concerns: our place in this world (artist's statement). The illustrations began with a month-long daily ritual of erasing an earlier charcoal drawing and, using watercolor and ink, creating a new drawing in its place. As part of this Dudley noted the weather and the color of the ocean as seen from her studio. She also added a few lines adapted from ancient Buddhist texts. The resulting 31 watercolors were collected in a mystical and magical book that beautifully captures Dudley's artistic consideration of our place in the world. Design, typography, and assembly of books and cases are by Richard Reitz Smith. Text and images are printed as offset lithography by Penmore Lithographers. Typeset inFutura on Cougar Opaque Smooth paper. Covers are blue Dover book cloth.The book is presented in an accordion format and can be read in the round or displayed as sculpture. The book is housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase with an archival pigment print of the drawing for Day Sixteen. Book measures 5 x 7 inches. 82 pages. In fine condition. ARTISTSB/110717. Fine. More
Washington DC: 2012-2013. Hardcover. Limited to 7 copies. These three fascinating volumes comprise the Non-Boundaries Series. They document a project undertaken by Zussman in which a group of people was asked to categorize a list of forty-two interactions between memory and reality into three to five categories. The book artist states: "This project has been a physical fulfillment of the question of whether there is any conscious common ground to the way we categorize unfamiliar phenomena and interactions that haven't been categorized for us in advance." The first volume provides the categories representing each participant's grouping and categorization of the interactions. In the second volume, participants were asked to map up to five interactions from the same list, using Euclidean geometric tools of a dot and a line. The third volume uses Jeremy Bentham's circular structure, the Panopticon to explore the interactions between memory and reality from the first two volumes. Each volume is bound in white laminate covers with the title printed in black on the cover. In fine condition. 8 x 10 inches, Unpaginated. This set may require an extra shipping fee. ARTISTSBOOK/081315. Fine. More
Washington DC: Na'ama Zussman, 2015. Hardcover. Number 7 of 12 copies. A beautifully conceived and produced book from Na'ama Zussman, a powerful new book artist originally from Israel. She describes her book: "A Survey of a World scrutinizes interactions between map and territory, along with memory and reality, whether of the surveyor herself - the creator of this artist's book - or of other people. It surveys and seeks to capture the doubt in the role of the surveyor, and the inevitable immersion in this role. A Survey of a World portrays the endeavour of grasping the moment ahead of the impression of the territory, when doubt turns into representation." Na'ama's exquisite images are interwoven with her evocative text as she ponders interactions, memory, and reality. Bound in brown Cialux book cloth, with a goatskin leather spine. The images throughout the book were created through the screen printing process and are done on lovely Thai Kozo paper. The text is composed in Meta Capitals and Constantia. The book is housed in a surveyor's bag made out of grey cashmere, with a leather string. The colophon is in a pocket on the back of the bag. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTS/081915. Fine. More