• The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis
The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis

The Mystery of the Musty Hide: Tales of Skin Thievery / Lee Marchalonis; texts by A. Kendra Greene and Carl Akeley, with case notes by Lee Marchalonis

Books

FA.B85.1582
Fine Art Collection
21 x 13 cm
2014
Center for Book Arts Workspace Artist-in-Residence 2014
Lee Marchalonis
Lee Marchalonis, A. Kendra Greene, Carl Akeley
Iowa, New York City, North Carolina, Washington
artists' books, hunting, natural history, taxidermy, zebras
The MCBA Prize
Tan boards with elephant paper backing. Brown and gold marbled endpapers. "'The Holy Grail Bird' was written by A. Kendra Greene for this project, and is excerpted from a longer essay. The frontispiece, photogeraphed by Jill Kambs, was printed from a copper photogravure plate onto Somerset Velvet Paper. The 'elephant skin' paper is made from flax, formed and treated by the artist. The ivory-billed woodpecker skins are located at the University of Iowa's Museum of Natural History and were photographed by the artist. The types are hand-set metal: 8-point New Century Schoolbook from the Whitman College collection, 6-point Grotesque and Lydian from the Center for Book Arts. The handwritten text and other imagery is printed from linoleum. "This book was printed in Iowa, New York, North Carolina & Washington states on Vandercook presses. Two versions have been produced: the Standard in an edition of 30 and the Deluxe on Rives Heavyweight Paper in an edition of 30. This copy is Deluxe AP/2"--Colophon. Signed by artist in black ink below colophon, "Lee Marchalonis 2014"