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Untitled abstraction (from "A Travel Book") by Fred Martin
Untitled abstraction (from "A Travel Book")
Fred Martin
Title
Untitled abstraction (from "A Travel Book")
Artist
Fred Martin
1927 - 2022 (biography)Year
1976
Technique
screenprint with added color
Image Size
14 1/2 x 27" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
23 of 26
Annotations
pencil dated after signature, editioned in lower left
Reference
Illustrated on cover of "A Travel Book"
Paper
antique-white Milbourn watermarked laid
State
published
Publisher
Arion Press, San Francisco. Collection Oakland Museum
Inventory ID
20386
Price
$1,000.00
Description
From "A Travel Book" by Fred Martin which was written and illustrated with 78 drawings by Fred Martin, 1976. One of 26 special screen prints, signed by the artist.
The author and artist, then dean of the San Francisco Art Institute, collaborated with Andrew Hoyem on the first Arion Press livre d'artiste. Entries from a diary kept by Martin during a journey more than halfway around the world and his selections from nineteenth-century travel writings are intricately combined with multi-color drawings on every page. The illustrations were printed in black from photo-engravings and in colors from linoleum blocks. The type is handset Inkunabula. The paper was specially made from cotton fiber by the Curtis Paper Company.