Search Results: Authors starting with O from The Limited Editions Club

O'Connor's shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword.The white O'Connor flourished within the system. Andrews, a son of black sharecroppers, flourished in spite of it. Imagine. School, for him, was permitted only when it was too wet to work the fields. High school was a four-mile walk each way. With only determination, wit, desperation and genius he cobbled together scholarships for college.His passion, vision and talent have earned a place for his art in all major New York museums, including the august Metropolitan Museum.Six color etchings by Benny Andrews.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each book signed by Benny Andrews.Peter Pettengill made the plates and editioned the prints at his Wingate Studios in New Hampshire. Red Japanese linen, the… Read More

One of the most intriguing books of the Bible, this work has inspired the literary masterpieces of Dante and Milton. Now it has inspired one of America's great artists, Allan Rohan Crite, to produce fifteen relief engravings for what may be the ultimate illustrated edition.Revelation was written at the height of Christians' persecution at the hands of the Romans. The work cries passionately against the power of evil and exhorts Christians to resist, even at the cost of martyrdom, a message that has a special resonance for an African-American artist, such as Mr. Crite. Perhaps the most forceful of his Revelation drawings is that showing an angry Angel whirling a millstone through Babylon, archetypal city of sin and indulgence. Critics have acclaimed Crite's revisualization as the finest of the artist's religious works.Fifteen relief engravings by Allan Rohan Crite.Edition limited to 400 numbered copies.Each signed by Allan Rohan Crite.Mr. Crite's relief engravings were printed on Japanese paper and… Read More

The Museum of Modern Art honored Frank O'Hara with a memorial edition of his poetry illustrated by artists who knew and loved him—foremost among them, William de Kooning. De Kooning made his drawings on mylar which he then presented to the Museum.A quarter of a century later, the mylar drawings were transferred to lithographic plates and printed under the supervision of the artist and the Museum of Modern Art solely in order to illustrate the Club's edition of those O'Hara poems that had so moved de Kooning.Seventeen of de Kooning's eighteen charcoal drawings are reproduced here for the first time as originally intended-with their subtle strokes and wide tonal range. The thirteen poems begin with O'Hara's "Ode to Willem de Kooning."Seventeen lithographs by Willem de Kooning.Edition limited to 550 numbered copies.Facsimile signature by Willem de Kooning from the bon à tirer proof signed by the artist.De Kooning's drawings were transferred from their original mylar sheets to lithographic plates and… Read More