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Orinda, California: Donna Day Westerman, N.D.. Limited and Signed Edition. Stiff wraps. Fine. Westerman, Donna Day. No. 13 of 20 (book edition; there are another 20 in a fine print edition), tall, thin quarto size, single wood engraving on four folded leaves, signed by the artist. Donna Day Westerman is a printmaker, painter and book artist in the Bay Area of California. [She is] "interested in traditional and historical media — particularly, woodcuts, wood-engravings and egg tempera — used in a contemporary manner. Working from close observation, and occasionally referring to [her] own photographs, [she] conceptually reduce[s] realistic nature to calligraphic or glyph-like notations. A kind of erasure takes place as the visual abundance... is distilled into the essence of the place. Other senses, such as sound and touch often inform the visual... A challenge... has been to capture the powerful ephemeral forms of fog and water in the hard-edged medium of wood... the medium itself determines much of the outcome." (n. b., "Artist's Statement" from the web site of the artist.)

The present volume is inspired by a whale skeleton found on Lummi Island, Washington.

___DESCRIPTION: Original handmade paper covered boards heightened in foils, deckled edges, printed title strip laid onto upper board, printed label with author's name inlaid to lower board, backstrip opens so the accordion style format can be displayed in a connected elongated format, single-panel wood engraving printed in black 4" by 20", Optima type, Arches 88 paper, 12"by 4" when closed, five folded leaves including title page and colophon, limited edition, number 13 of 20, signed by Donna Day Westerman.

___CONDITION: A fine copy, no flaws to the paper covers, leaves are bright, rich impression, a fine copy signed and numbered by Donna Day Westerman; acquired by us directly from the Artist, new.

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