Tuesday, November 13, 2012

H.C.
























A Human Condition, 1964, pine, brass, glass doorknob, ink
H.C. Westermann - A Human Condition: Selected Works 1961-1973, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., NY, 2011 (Thanks Meeka!)

Monday, November 12, 2012

endpapers




Noah's Ark by Miche Wynants, 1965
Let's Find Out About Color by Ann Campbell, 1975
Tag-Along by Bernice Frankel, illustrated by Alex Kenne, 1962
God Bless Love by Nanette Newman, 1972

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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Basic Woodworking Processes by Herman Hjorth, Bruce Publishing Co., 1933 (1943) 
Make It and Ride It by C.J.Maginley, Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., 1949

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Folkways with Children




Rhythms of Childhood with Ella Jenkins, Folkways Records FC 7653, 1963 - cover design Ronald Clyne - here
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger, Folkways Records FC 7526, 1956

Saturday, November 3, 2012

gem cutting and sphere collecting






Gem Cutting Shop Helps: The Best Selected from 17 Years of The Lapidary Journal, edited by Hugh Leiper, F.G.A., Lapidary Journal, 1964

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

house face


October 2012
 
October 2011

October 2010

October 2009

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

misc. bookshelf










Art: Your Visual Environment by G.F. Brommer and G.F. Horn, Davis Publications, 1977
Women and Self-Defence by Susan Lynne..., self-published, 1975
Making Things: Book 2 by Ann Wiseman, Little Brown, 1975
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw, Harper and Row, 1947

Sunday, October 28, 2012

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MKG127 booth at Art Toronto.
me, laurel woodcock, dave dyment, roula partheniou, ken nicol, liza eurich, bill burns...(in no particular order). 
photo thanks to PVK.

Friday, October 26, 2012

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If you're in Toronto, I have some work at TIAF (Oct. 26-29)----visit MKG127 (booth 1120) and Galerie Division.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

surface treatment



Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted by Florence Temko, Collier Books, 1974
previously

short a



lips natural, short a
Lip Reading by Edward F. Walther, Nelson-Hall, Chicago, 1982

Sunday, October 21, 2012

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Failed Attempts by Jay Cover, Catalogue Library, Leeds, 2011
edition of 25
thanks MML!

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

minerals of manitoba






Minerals of Manitoba - Volume I: Non-metallic and pegmatitic by K.A. Phillips PHD., P. Eng., MRD Educational Series 78/1, Department of Mines, Resources and Environmental Management, Manitoba Mineral Resources Division, 1978

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Balla tools





"Brushes carved by Balla. The horse-hair and pig bristles were supplied by people with whom Balla had made friends while on painting excursions in the Roman countryside. / Balla liked to construct his own tools, which he then used in making sculpture, furniture, picture frames, and stretchers. / A paint box built by Balla."

Giacomo Balla: An Album of his Life and Work by Virginia Dortch Dorazio, Wittenborn & Co., NY, 1969

thanks Hughes!

Friday, October 12, 2012

juliet kepes







The Seven Remarkable Bears by Emilie Warren McLeod, illustrated by Juliet Kepes, E.M.Hale/Houghton Mifflin Co., 1954 (1963)

Juliet Kepes working on a mural in the Kepes nursery, Cambridge, 1949---see more at LIFE magazine archives!
Components of the nursery, designed by Juliet and her husband Gyƶrgy Kepes, are included in the incredible exhibition Century of the Child currently at the MoMA, NY.

more at Daddytypes

thanks kg!