Of But A Single Pang: Emily Dickinson Birthday Celebration Includes Cake, Flowers, and Poetry
Coconut cake and poetry readings were part of the 186th birthday celebration of Emily Dickinson. Read more at the Fine Books Blog.
Make Way for Ducklings!
Robert McCloskey’s classic turns 75 this year, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is hosting a retrospective. Read more at the Fine Books & Collections Blog.
(Drawing for Make Way for Ducklings (“‘Look out!’ squawked Mrs. Mallard, all of a dither…”) by Robert McCloskey, 1941. Reproduced with permission from MFA Boston.)
Revisiting Raptis Rare Books – The Fine Books Blog
La Belle Époque of Toulouse-Lautrec on The Fine Books Blog
The Phillips 
Collection in Washington D.C. will showcase nearly one-hundred drawings, posters, paintings, and prints spanning the career of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque is the first solo staging in the United States of Lautrec’s art in eighty years. Read more at La Belle Époque of Toulouse-Lautrec – The Fine Books Blog
(Le Chat Noir. By Théophile Steinlen – Van Gogh Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=324715)
Original Bemelmans Illustration Goes to Auction–Fine Books Blog
Master bookbinder Tim Ely’s elaborate
art books are a sophisticated otherworldly mash-up of landscapes,
diagrams, and architecture meant to inspire and provoke. The Snohomish,
Washington, native has been making books for almost his entire life,
finding inspiration on heaven and in earth, fusing science and art with
paper and ink. Now, contemporary art bookbinding specialist Abby Schoolman Books is presenting eight of his recently completed art books for sale in a catalog entitled Timothy C. Ely 8 Books.
(via The Alchemy of Book Art: 8 Works by Tim Ely – The Fine Books Blog)
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