Nov 2, 2004

Strange Birds

Laurels Number One

Strange Birds

1947

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Will Barnet

(American, 1911–2012)

published by

Laurels Gallery

Lithograph

Support: Original pasteboard porfolios. Inside folders of handmade paper and hand printing by Douglas Howell.

Sheet: 32 x 42.2 cm (12 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.); Image: 25.1 x 33.5 cm (9 7/8 x 13 3/16 in.)

Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 1998.183.f

Catalogue raisonné: Cole 93

Edition: 300

Impression: 42/300

Location

Description

Chris Ritter, director of the Laurel Gallery, New York, planned that Laurels would be a periodical with literature, prints, original calligraphy, handset type, and handmade papers by Douglass Howell. The first issue, which appeared in May 1947, included prints by Joan Miró, Anne Ryan, Stanley William Hayter, Reginald Marsh, George Constant, and Will Barnet. Only four issues were published.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Lithograph
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print
Medium: 
Lithograph

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