Book Arts Collection
About This Gallery
We joke in printshops about how much printmakers love to depict birds in their artwork. Louisianians love birds too! So it only seemed fitting that we create a Bird themed gallery.
Printmakers love birds.
Gamebirds & Waterfowl: 10 Etchings Hand Water-Colored
Robinson, Alan James. Gamebirds & Waterfowl: 10 Etchings Hand Water-Colored. (Easthampton, Mass.: Cheloniidae Press), 1980.
QL674 .R63 OVER, McIlhenny Natural History Collection
Orinthology
Sayenko, Dmitry. Orinthology. St. Petersburg [Russia] : [Nikodim], 2014.
N7433.4 .S294 O76 2014, McIlhenny Natural History Collection
Sayenko usually creates the paper, prints and binding for his artists' books. In this spread, Sayenko discusses cannibalistic behavior in birds with pelican and parrot examples.
Bible Birds
Tournour, Margaret. Bible Birds. Durham: Black Cygnet Press, 1996.
NE1147.6 .T68 A4 1996, Rare
Collection of wood engravings and Bible quotations.
Birdsongs: Eleven New Poems
Olson, Toby. Birdsongs: Eleven New Poems. [Mount Horeb, Wis.] : Perishable Press, 1980.
PS3565 .L84 B5 1980, Rare
Fine press chapbook printed in blue, black, brown-black, and red. The 96th book of the Perishable Press, printed and bound by Walter Hamady.
Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin
Schanilec, Gaylord. Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. [Stockholm, Wisconsin] : Midnight Paper Sales, 2015.
N7433.4 .S328 L33 2015 FLAT, Rare
The text consists of commentary on passage through Lake Pepin by several authors including Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain, for example, and is printed letterpress with hand set lead type. All of the images were printed from end-grain maple blocks with the exception of the key block for Pelicanus erythrohynchos, for which han extra piece of Corian countertop material was used.