Item #35483 Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings. Wiesedruck, Sarah Horowitz.
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings
Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings

Vogel Totentanz: 29 Etchings

Washington: Wiesedruck, 2018. Hardcover. Number 31 of 40 copies that included five deluxe copies. Vogel Totentanz is a bird dance of death alphabet book inspired by Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death woodcut alphabet. After the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the late 14th century, death as inevitable regardless of status or age became a pervasive motif in art and literature. My present-day Totentanz is a reflection of that idea in context of our environmental crisis. Birds are indicator species for overall environmental health and human well-being [from the artist's website].

The 29 etchings were drawn from specimens at the Cashmere Museum, the Wenatchee Valley College collection, and the Burke Museum in Washington State along with other found remains. Diotima types were used throughout. The text was letterpress printed on Zerkall Book paper by Arthur Larson of Horton Tank Graphics. This regular edition is bound in a bird-footprint-etching printed blue paper and housed in a slipcase. Binding and slipcase by Claudia Cohen. In fine condition. Measures 6.875 x 5.5 inches. Etchings are 2.5 x 2.5 inches. [60 pages.]

Sarah Horowitz has been awarded multiple grants and has held residencies at several arts centers including ArtBellwald in Switzerland. She taught printmaking at Portland State University for over ten years and was a member of Atelier Mars printmaking workshop during her time in Portland. Her press is named for the Wiese stream that runs through her grandparents backyard near Basel, Switzerland. Much of her work is printed on a Charles Brand Press once owned by Leonard Baskin. Her work is held in private and institutional collections across the U.S. PRI/122121.
Fine.

Item #35483

Price: $2,800.00