Donna Day Westerman / Quercus Limited Signed Edition
Author: Westerman, Donna Day Title: Quercus Publication: Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N. Number one of seven, tall, thin quarto size, five folded leaves, signed by the artist. Limited edition, number one of seven. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker and painter in the Bay Area of California. [She is] interested in traditional and historical media - particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera - used in a contemporary manner.
Working from close observation, and occasionally referring to [her] own photographs, [she] conceptually reduce[s] realistic nature to calligraphic or glyph-like notations. A kind of erasure takes place as the visual abundance... Is distilled into the essence of the place. Other senses, such as sound and touch often inform the visual...
Has been to capture the powerful ephemeral forms of fog and water in the hard-edged medium of wood... The medium itself determines much of the outcome. "Artist's Statement" from web site of Artist. The present volume is themed around the oak tree, and includes a poem by Langston Hughes. ___DESCRIPTION: Original handmade gray paper covered boards, pictorial title strip inlaid to upper board, backstrip opens so the accordion style format can be displayed in a connected elongated format, single-panel wood engraving underlaid with three photogravures 4" x 20", Trajan Pro and Goudy Old Style type, Arches 88 paper, 12" x 4" when closed, five folded leaves including title-page and colophon, limited edition, number one of seven, signed by Donna Day Westerman. ___CONDITION: A fine copy, no flaws to the paper covers, leaves are bright, rich impression, a fine copy signed and numbered by Donna Day Westerman; acquired by us new directly from the Artist.___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Swan's Fine Books is an open shop located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer quality used, collectible, and rare books in a wide variety of general interest subjects. While we specialize in illustrated books, fine press books, and Californiana, we have books in many areas.
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- Author: Westerman, Donna Day
- Illustrator: Westerman, Donna Day
- Publisher: Donna Day Westerman
- Special Attributes: Illustrated, Signed
- Binding: Softcover, Wraps