In collaboration with the renown poet, Richard Tillinghast, his friend and undergraduate contemporary, Joe has created sixteen planographic prints from his drawings using continuous tone offset lithography at the Curwen Studio in Cambridgeshire to illustrate the fine book of Sewanee Poems. Each 7 ½ x 4 ½ inch image, printed on the same museum quality Somerset Paper as the hand set and printed texts by the Evergreen Press in Gloucestershire, is tipped onto blank 10 x 7 inch pages of the books opposite corresponding references in the poems, and sewn under hard cover, with box case, by the Fine Bindery in Northamptonshire.
The fine book celebrates the150 year history of the University of the South by commemorating in one long poem the early years after the Civil War and in another the college in the 1960s, with two shorter eulogies for each of a favourite teacher and of a dear friend. Generous sponsors funded the whole cost of production in order that the signed limited edition of 1000 volumes can be sold with entire proceeds going to support career internships for current students.
For more information and to purchase books contact the artist by e-mail: joe@winkelman.co.uk
Cutting the design on the linoleum block
Taking a proof on the Columbian press
Drawing the lithographic compositions
Trimming the drawings for the composite
Arranging images on the printing matrix
Chemically fixing the matrix
Masking out the margins
Rolling up the matrix with ink
Removing unwanted marks
The matrix with the first proof
A view of the finished books
The two styles of covers and cases
The single Linoleum Cut (above) made to measure 4 x 4 ½ inches by the artist for the book is printed in relief with the type face on page X of each volume and a 1 ¾ x 2 inch reproduction of that image is stamped on the box covers that come with each book.
© Joseph Winkelman
