Bookplate designs by Hui-Ming Wang
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Author: Wang, Hui-Ming
Title: A collection of bookplate designs by Hui-Ming Wang
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45 ex-libris woodcut prints in various colors, on various types of paper. Various sizes, average: 13x9 cm (5x3").
A selection of ex-libris woodcut prints by artist Hui-Ming Wang. 8 prints are signed by the artist in pencil at the bottom margin. Includes multiple copies of most of the pieces. 13 individual designs in all.
After teaching Chinese language and literature at Yale University from 1951-61, Hui-Ming Wang followed his desire to be an artist and joined the art department at the Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., eventually rising to be department head. He created Epoh Studio Press, collaborating with printmaker Harold McGrath of The Gehenna Press. He published five other books, including "The Boat Untied," poems by Tang Dynasty poets, and "Land on the Tip of a Hair: Poems in Wood," illustrated by woodcuts for poems written by poets he knew personally: Robert Bly, David Ignatow, Linda Pastan, William Stafford, James Tate and others.
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