I Was On My Way Up The Stairs to See You Artist's Book by Jean Buescher Bartlett
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Poem, letterpress printing, title page casein and gouache illustration, hardcover binding with appliqué and linen thread embroidery by Jean Buescher Bartlett. Handmade raw flax and cotton rag cover papers formed and pigmented pale blue and red oxide/walnut by Ann Marie Kennedy. Printed from metal engravings of Nancy Leavitt's original calligraphy on Frankfurt Cream and Deep Green Ingres Antique paper in three colors. Fabriano Roma Moretto (deep red) pastedowns.” - Jean Buescher Bartlett
6.5” x 4.75”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Poem, letterpress printing, title page casein and gouache illustration, hardcover binding with appliqué and linen thread embroidery by Jean Buescher Bartlett. Handmade raw flax and cotton rag cover papers formed and pigmented pale blue and red oxide/walnut by Ann Marie Kennedy. Printed from metal engravings of Nancy Leavitt's original calligraphy on Frankfurt Cream and Deep Green Ingres Antique paper in three colors. Fabriano Roma Moretto (deep red) pastedowns.” - Jean Buescher Bartlett
6.5” x 4.75”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This piece is featured in the November 2024 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“Poem, letterpress printing, title page casein and gouache illustration, hardcover binding with appliqué and linen thread embroidery by Jean Buescher Bartlett. Handmade raw flax and cotton rag cover papers formed and pigmented pale blue and red oxide/walnut by Ann Marie Kennedy. Printed from metal engravings of Nancy Leavitt's original calligraphy on Frankfurt Cream and Deep Green Ingres Antique paper in three colors. Fabriano Roma Moretto (deep red) pastedowns.” - Jean Buescher Bartlett
6.5” x 4.75”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Jean Buescher Bartlett (she/her) received a BS in Design from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she set up a studio and bindery concentrating on art books, design, typography, and limited edition binding commissions. For fifteen years she taught book arts and the history of modern design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Jean has actively exhibited her work in the United States and Europe since 1980, and it continues to be housed in major collections worldwide, including the New York Public Library, the University of Michigan Special Collections, the Dutch Royal Library, Stanford University Special Collections, the Newberry Library, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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