Sylvæ: fifty specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations

Creator

Gaylord Schanilec
Ben Verhoeven
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Creation Date

2007

Keywords

Timber trees, Botany, Forests, Farmland, Wisconsin, Printmaking, Neighbors, Anecdotes, artists' books

Description

case bound with fold-out pages, bound in oak cover boards with leather spine and foil stamped spine label; cover; interior pages and spreads. Fifty specimens of timber trees on the farm property of Gaylord Shanilec are printed in full color woodcuts. Anecdotes about the making of the book, the trees, and the neighbors give personality to each tree sample. Ben Verhoeven is RISD alumnus.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1217882~S4

Press

[Stockholm, Wis.]:Midnight Paper Sales

Rights

©Gaylord Schanilec; Ben Verhoeven, [Stockholm, Wis.]:Midnight Paper Sales

Materials / Techniques

letterpress; woodcut (reductive method); paper; thread; wood; leather; board; cloth

Measurements

31 cm