Detail View: Artists' Book Collection: Piute Creek

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.
Relation: 
Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1798452
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)