COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Piute Creek
Creator:
Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
Creator:
Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
Description:
Artist's book comprised of scroll (4 unnumbered leaves sewn together; approximately 186 x 16 cm unrolled) affixed to wooden frame (28 x 19 cm) mounted within casing (paper-covered boards, leather spine, printed and stitched paper label on cover). Issued in strapless blue canvas satchel intended to resemble a backpack. 30 numbered copies made. Colophon: "Antique wood type and Centaur were handset and letterpress printed on Peter's handmade paper." Artists' website: "Illustrated with linocuts featuring stenciled paper pulp background coloring by Donna Thomas." Colophon: "The binding was made using ponderosa pine harvested from Whitlocks, in Mariposa, California, not too far from Piute Creek."
Subject:
Artistic collaboration
Subject:
Bodies of water
Subject:
Nature in art
Subject:
Poetry
Publisher:
Peter & Donna Thomas (Firm)
Contributor:
Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Date:
2017
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x 22 x 5 cm (cased) + 1 bag (30 x 35 cm)
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Wood
Format/Medium:
Wooden bindings
Format/Medium:
Hand composition
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Hardcover books
Format/Medium:
Leather
Format/Medium:
Letterpress printing
Format/Medium:
Linocuts
Format/Medium:
Pulp painting
Format/Medium:
Scrolls (information artifacts)
Source:
Piute Creek, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b1798452x
Identifier:
i13720569
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
