The Gallery Archive
The Third Exhibition of
American Decorated Publishers' Bindings 1872-1929
[Exhibition ended June 2, 2011]
This cabinet includes two copies of Sarah Wyman Whitman's 1892 design for Martin
Brimmer's Egypt, which was issued by
Houghton in vellum stamped with gold and in suede stamped with brown. Also
shown are William James Jordan's 1902 design
for McClure on The Taskmasters, F. R. Kimbroough's design for Stone on Miss
Ayr of Virginia, and Frank Hazenplug's 1900 design
on A Valley Muse. The bottom shelf includes The Road to Nowhere,
a 1900 design from Harper's that is likely by Thoman Watson Ball.
The cover art to the right of that shelf on I and my True Love is from
The Decorative Designers.
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Thank you for visiting the online gallery. This is our third exhibition featuring the Golden Age of publishers' bindings. Combined with the previous two exhibitions on this subject, we have showed a total of 1,100 designs by 141 known designers and many anonymous ones. The current exhibition features 300 and 26 artists not previously shown. The catalog is the third volume issued on this subject.
The CATALOG of the Third Exhibition is now available. The exhibition was acquired by The Boston Athenaeum in its entirety.
The second exhibition, with 300 designs, ended November 20, 2008. That entire collection was acquired by The Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. The fully illustrated catalog of the second exhibition is available in Limited and Deluxe editions and on CD-ROM. The first exhibition ended in August 2005, and that entire collection was acquired by the University of Alabama. A beautiful and comprehensive illustrated catalog was produced that included high resolution images of all 500 designs in the collection plus many variants, as well as bibliographic information. Essays by Richard Minsky on the aesthetic and historical aspects of this art form provide several methodologies for collecting these works, and demonstrate that artists were doing work on book covers that was prototypical of art movements that arose decades later. The Limited Edition and CD-ROM versions of the first three exhibition catalogs may now be ordered online. |
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Please note: I welcome comments and corrections on any of the captions or catalog information! Click on contact to send me a message.  a Bertrand Frères percussion press is on the left, next to a lying press and plough.
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Exhibition
Archive: American Decorated Publishers' Bindings 1872-1929 (ended August 2005) 30 Years of Book Art: 1974-2003 (ended July, 2007) American Decorated Publishers' Bindings 1872-1929 (ended November 2008) |
To continue the exhibition, click one of the sections or a button
Each section has several thumbnail images and descriptions of the works. You can click on any image for a page about that work, with larger pictures and details.
Section A Bindings 1968-79
Section B Bindings 1979-85
Section C Bindings 1986-88
Section D Sculptural Bookworks from 1988
Section E Bindings 1988-94
Section F Painted Car, Watercolor studies, Bindings
Section G The Bill of Rights, 1993-
Section H Bindings on books by Erica Jong
Guest Books and Blank books
