Tumbling Blocks for Pris and Bruce
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1996. Fine binding. Item #10934
2-1/4" x 2-1/4." [28] pp. Limited edition, one of 200 numbered copies. Signed by Van Vliet and Audrey Holden who assembled them. Miniature cut letter alphabet of offcuts from the Janus Press edition of Praise Basted In: A Friendship Quilt for Aunt Sallie (1995). Housed in a non-adhesive cube of MacGregor-Vinzani pink abaca paper with a linocut pattern in yellow. In plastic outer box. A fine copy.
"Waste not; want not" as they say. What better way to employ the offcuts from a significant project than to create this absolutely delightful alphabet. Of any number of throughlines in Van Vliet's long career, her joy is certainly one of the most prominent. It appears in her most ambitious projects as much as it does in this wonderfully playful artist's book. Fine, The Janus Press — Fifty Years, p. 52.
Price: $150.00