Book Makers

Center for Book Arts first five years

Center for Book Arts collections includes two posters, a screen printed broadside and a letterpress printed broadside, made to advertise for the Book Makers exhibition. Images of the posters are also included below.

Support for Center for Book Arts’ visual arts programming is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Exhibition Checklist:

Sahara, The Longest Desert in the World, 1977
Carol Alonge
3 pages, sand in vinyl

Ovid’s Medea, 1979
Richard Barrett
Handprinted on handmade papers, with etchings and engravings by Jane Marshall. Edition of 30 copies and 4 proofs.

Aloha, Evelyn, 1975
Barton Lidice Benes
9 folded pages. Rubber stamps, epilogue on fan.

Bound Book, 1976
Barton Lidice Benes
Book, rope, paint and wax.

Dance Lesson, The, 1977
Barton Lidice Benes
Rubber stamps on 16 paper footprints.

Pier 48, 1976
Barton Lidice Benes
8 original photographs by Andres Lander and David Meyer. 9 pages, rubber stamps.

Save Our Children, 1977
Barton Lidice Benes
5 folded pages. Rubber stamps, watercolor, glitter and cut-out.

Snapshots, 1975
Barton Lidice Benes
Two folios with rubber stamped ink and hand colored images, color photographs in canvas envelope.

Trick or Treat, 1977
Barton Lidice Benes
6 trick or treat bags with cookies. Typewritten text.

Nudes, 1979
Warren Brandt
Drawings, paintings, photographs in linen binding by Susan Share. (Binding 1979).

Vortex, 1979
Rosemarie Chiarlone
Handmade Nepalese paper on zig-zag hinge, with diminishing cut-out.

Emerge, 1979
Norman B. Colp
C prints

Submerge, 1970
Norman B. Colp
C prints

Basketball Series, 1979
Elaine de Kooning
7 Completed watercolors in a binding by Mindell Dubansky.

Book 3, 1978
Kathleen Derzipiliski
Paper collages in japanese binding, linen cover.

Book 5, 1979
Kathleen Derzipiliski
Paper collages in case binding, linen cover.

Binding for Stanley Moss’ “Skull of Adam,” 1979
Mindell Dubansky
Sewn case binding with linen spine, hand made paper cover with stitching.

Elvis Book, 1977
Mindell Dubansky
Embroidered book of photographs in a blue suede shoe box.

Erie Shore Letters, The, by Timothy Cohrs, 1977
Dikko Faust
Designed, handset, printed and bound on his handmade papers by artist

Ofaginzies Abatoir by Timothy Cohrs, 1979
Dikko Faust
Published by Purgatory Pie Press, New York. Letterpress, paper handmade by the artist; exposed cord, bound in torn paintings.

Western Fightin’ Mens, a serial by Timothy Cohrs, 1978
Dikko Faust
Pack of cards designed, handset, printed and boxed by artist

Book of Chevrons/One hundred original chevron designs in color, 1979
Thom Feild
Designed and screen printed by artist; binding of Nigerian goatskin with onlays designed and executed by Bruce Schnabel.

xxx’s, 1979
Connie Fox
Acrylic on paper, linen box for triptych folding pages bound by Antonia Weil.

Book design for “Minsky in London,” 1979
Pat Gorman
Cover caricature by Gerald Mynott, back cover photograph by Richard Minsky.

Earthwatch No. 2, 1979
Marty Greenbaum
Drawing and painting with roplex, wax and collage

In and Out, 1978
Marty Greenbaum
Book, drawing and collage.

Dabblers in Ink and Self-Admiration, 1979
Hermann Greissle
Wood-engraving

On the Making of Modern China, 1979
Hermann Greissle
Wood-engraving and original wood block

Silmarillion, 1977
Hermann Greissle
Wood-engraving

Zucchini II, 1978
Hermann Greissle
Wood-engraving

A portfolio of ten handmade flax and linen papers, 1977
Douglass Morse Howell
Portfolio constructed by apprentices at Center for Book Arts.

Reasons for the Sky by Jim Hanson, 1979
Allan Kornblum
Handset in Plantin and Libra types by Alastair Johnston and Allan Kornblum

Vodka and Roses by Michael Irene Welch, 1978
Designed by artist, handset and printed in Perpetua and Salem types by Laurie Nelson-Heern

April Diary, 1979
Hedi Kyle
Laminations of various oriental and domestic papers, reversed writing, images with watercolor and color pencils. From the collection of Richard Minsky, New York, NY.

Fan Book, 1979
Hedi Kyle
Concertina fold construction, fans folded out of various Japanese papers.

First Avenue Moth, 1979
Hedi Kyle
Handmade paper, cutouts, watercolor, pastel.

Pocket Book, 1979
Hedi Kyle
Book with mylar pockets, including stencils and fragments of old papers

Vortex, 1979
Hedi Kyle
Handmade Nepalese paper on zig-zag hinge, with diminishing cut-out.

Air Mail Postcards by Franco Beltrametti
Annabel Levitt
Printed in handset Optima by Liz Phillips. Edition of 320 copies, of which 26 are signed and hand colored by the author.

Train Ride by Ted Berrigan, 1978
Annabel Levitt
Printed in Gill Sans type by Michael Uytenbogaart at Center for Book Arts.

Typings (1974 – 1977) by Christopher Knowles, 1979
Annabel Levitt
Published by Vehicle Editions, New York. Offset: 3 colors.

Paper Quilts, 1979
Barbara Mauriello
Quilt patterns on handmade paper

North American Hand Papermaking, 1976
Richard Minsky
2 volumes, accordion-style folding book. 31 sheets of handmade paper works, photographs and statements by artists.

Unicorn Tapestries, The by Margaret B. Freeman, 1977
Richard Minsky
Published 1976; Binding 1977. Work by apprentices at Center for Book Arts, commissioned by Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oasis goat, ivory horn hand carved by Nicholas Caraccio.

2 Openings, 1979
Alphonso Ossorio
Mixed media in a binding by Mindell Dubansky.

Metropolis, 1979
Harvey Dolph Redding
Monoprints from color xerox on rag paper, collage, machine sewing, rubber stamps.

New York Burn, 1979
Harvey Dolph Redding
Monoprints from color xerox on rage paper, collage, machine sewing, rubber stamps.

Probe Detail, 1979
Harvey Dolph Redding
Monoprints from color Xerox, black and white copies and rag paper, collage, rubber stamping, machine sewn.

Across the Universe, 1978
John L. Risseeuw
Lithography and letterpress, words by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I nearly died laughing, 1974
John L. Risseeuw
Printed on handmade papers with Bembo and Palatino types.

Ozzie’s Box, 1978
John L. Risseeuw
Lithography and letterpress

A Bug Book, Pictural Insect Specimens, 1979
Bruce Schnabel
Original gouache paintings color Xeroxed on Wooky Hole paper, dry-mounted on Roma (Fabriano) paper with subtle ink graphics. Title page tooled with black foil with dry-mounted Xerox cartouche. Nigerian goatskin binding, Nigerian goat and reverse Nigerian goat only, damp-scribed. Red silk embroidered headbands.

Gilder’s Notes, 1978
Bruce Schnabel
Gold-tooled drawings on Roma paper, pieced Nigerian goatskin binding, scribed.

notes from the Etymologist’s Journal, I, 1979
Bruce Schnabel
Color Xerox of gouache paintings and collage mounted on Roma paper, Nigerian goatskin binding with onlay, damp scribed.

notes from the Etymologist’s Journal, II, 1979
Bruce Schnabel
Color Xerox of gouache paintings mounted on Roma paper, Nigerian goatskin binding with onlay, tooled with colored foils and in blind.

Notes from the Etymologist’s Journal, III, 1979
Bruce Schnabel
Original gouache paintings and collage color Xeroxed on T. H. Saunders Wooky Hole mouldmade paper. Title page tooled with black foil. Binding is Nigerian goatskin with dyed Nigerian goatskin onlay, blind tooled. Glass seed beads sewn through perforations in leather-covered boards. Turquoise silk embroidered headbands.

Miscellaneous Poems, by Andrew Marvell, 1979
David Sellars
(Binding 1979). Linen, leather parings, pva, snap fasteners.

Silence, by John Cage, 1979
Susan Joy Share
Folding wrapper, collage.

Sequence 3, 1979
Hedda Sterne
Ink drawings in linen binding by Hedi Kyle

Almanach Du Printemps Vivarois, a long poem by Hayden Carruth, 1979
Carol Sturm
Univers monotype on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies

If Birds Build With your Hair, a group of seven poems by W.D. Snodgrass, 1979
Carol Sturm
Univers monotype on BFK Rives, Edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.

Quiet of the Land, The, a group of six poems by William Stafford, 1979
Carol Sturm
Handset Optima on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.

Sleep Tight, a short story by James Purdy, 1979
Carol Sturm
Univers monotype on handmade Umbria and Finnish felt, with an illustration by the author. Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

30,000 References I, 1978
Stella Waitzkin
Mixed media

30,000 References III, 1979
Stella Waitzkin
Mixed media

30,000 References IV, 1979
Stella Waitzkin
Mixed media

Almanach Du Printemps Vivarois, a long poem by Hayden Carruth, 1979
Doug Wolf
Univers monotype on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies

If Birds Build With your Hair, a group of seven poems by W.D. Snodgrass, 1979
Doug Wolf
Univers monotype on BFK Rives, Edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.

Quiet of the Land, The, a group of six poems by William Stafford, 1979
Doug Wolf
Handset Optima on Fabriano papers, edition of 200 numbered and signed copies.

Sleep Tight, a short story by James Purdy, 1979
Doug Wolf
Univers monotype on handmade Umbria and Finnish felt, with an illustration by the author. Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

Exhibition Views

Grey poster with black text at the top and grey text at the bottom. Poster is for Book Makers Exhibition and includes info on the exhibition detials.
Poster for the Book Makers exhibition (1979)
Dark red, navy, and off-white poster with images of books and diagonal, curvy lines. Includes info on Book Makers exhibition
Poster for the Book Makers exhibition (1979) that has info on the details of the exhibition.
1/12
Your cart is empty.