Aviary - Cover Side
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Media Type: Books
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection copy is numbered 3/75.
Cover title and publisher information from cover; Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection has loose leaf with information written by the artist about the book, the processes used to make it, and influences.
Etchings on Rives paper in accordion book fold.
Covers made from uninked embossment on Canson Mi-teinte papers that have been hand colored with Caran d'Ache crayon.
The artist used a "reductive approach to making the plate, almost like that of a woodcut, in contrast to the additive approach to platemaking used for the less-detailed interior images."
Notes:
This item was featured in the exhibition, Our Five Senses, Parkway Central Library, William B. Dietrich Gallery, May 2019-November 2019.
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 2005
Call Number: Huebsch - Aviary
Creator Name: Huebsch, Rand - Artist
Aviary - Cover Side
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