In conjunction with the Maine Print Project, print curator David Becker has written this chronological overview of Maine printmaking. Written for a general audience, but equally appealing to art specialists, the variety of styles, subject matter, and technical approach may well provoke viewers to look further.

The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005

Arts & Photography

Becker, David P.

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Down East Books

Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, Harvard left both a collection of graphic works and a body of prose that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, "a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light," a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible "as the search for perpetual motion." David P. Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog, which won the American Library Association's 1991 Leab Exhibition Catalog Award for Excellence, bears out Harvard's conviction that typography, which is at once art and craft, must "strive to satisfy the intelligence and not the intelligentsia."

The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters (Houghton Library Publications)

Graphic Design

Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library

Physical description; xxii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Notes; Exhibition held at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Me., May 17-July 7, 1985, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, Mass., Sept. 14-Oct.27, 1985, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 19-Mar. 2, 1986, [and] Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, May 17-June 29, 1986. p. 246-251 Includes indexes. Subjects; Bowdoin College. Museum of Art — Exhibitions. Drawing — Exhibitions.

Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College

President & Trustees

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