COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
The Wandering Book Artists' Collaborative Broadsides
Creator:
Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
Creator:
Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
Description:
Portfolio containing 13 broadsides by various artists, along with a pamphlet by Peter and Donna Thomas. Limited edition of 50 copies. Colophon: "The paper used for the portfolio pages is commerecially made Glama from the Schoellershammer papermill in Germany. The title page was printed on a Vandercook Universal 1 press, using metal Playbill type, on paper Peter made at the Old Ways Workshop. The pamphlet was printed using polymer plates with digital Century Schoolbook and Playbill type, on Peter's cotton rag handmade paper." Contents: The wandering book artists' collaborative broadsides by Peter and Donna Thomas; Song of the wandering book artists by staff and docents at the International Printing Museum; Lines of highway by Karla Elling; Sky prevailing by Catherine Nash; Clouds above the desert by Rob and Georgia Buchert and Paul Alessini; Old ways workshop by Jim Croft; Gypsy Wagon by Hamilton Wood Type Museum; I wandered by Tracy Honn; Gypsy chicken by Andrea Peterson and Jon Hook; Poor wandering book artists' almanack / Don Rash; Far from home by Bread and Puppet Theater; I am a craftsman by Paul Holbrook; My job by Gray Zeitz; Crossroads by Paul Brown and Tom Walker.
Subject:
Artistic collaboration
Subject:
Graphic design (Typography)
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Quotations in art
Subject:
Travel
Subject:
Wagons
Publisher:
Peter & Donna Thomas (Firm)
Date:
2011
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 portfolio : color illustrations ; 36 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Abaca fiber papers
Format/Medium:
Broadsides
Format/Medium:
Clamshell boxes
Format/Medium:
Cotton rag paper
Format/Medium:
Engravings
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Hemp paper
Format/Medium:
Japanese paper (handmade paper)
Format/Medium:
Linocuts
Format/Medium:
Photopolymer plates (printing plates)
Format/Medium:
Wood blocks (printing blocks)
Format/Medium:
Woodcuts
Source:
The Wandering Book Artists' Collaborative Broadsides, 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:
b13040649
Identifier:
i12540195
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
