uwmspeccoll: Wood Engraving WednesdayLYND WARD’S LAST UNFINISHED WORDLESS NOVELAmerican illustrator
uwmspeccoll: Wood Engraving WednesdayLYND WARD’S LAST UNFINISHED WORDLESS NOVELAmerican illustrator and wood engraver Lynd Ward (1905-1985) published his sixth and last wordless novel Vertigo in 1937. Afterward, he concentrated on printmaking and illustrating children’s books for the remainder of his career. At the end of his life, however, he returned to engraving blocks for one last wordless novel, but he was taken by Alzheimer’s before he could finish it. In the late 1990s, the Ward estate gave American letterpress printer Barbara Henry permission to print 26 of those final wood engravings, which she published in 2001 as Lynd Ward’s Last Unfinished Wordless Novel, in a limited edition at her Harsimus Press in Jersey City, New Jersey.These four engravings from the novel were printed by Henry as an insert to the article “The Woodcut Novels of Lynd Ward” by illustrated-book historian David A. Beronä, published in Matrix 22, Winter 2002,pp. 143-153. Like his novels, Lynd Ward was a man of few words. American wood engraver and fine-press printer Michael McCurdy observed thatThe man was a silent man. He didn’t have a lot of words to say. In fact if he did have something to say it was very deliberate.Friend and fellow illustrator Joseph H. Lindsley remembered Ward for his humanity:Lynd Ward is a man with profound and abiding concern for the human spirit. And just as inescapable is the fact that having said that about a man, there is little else that needs to be said. Matrix was printed by John and Rosalind Randle at the Whittington Press in England, and is a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.View more posts with work by Lynd Ward.View more posts from Matrix.View other posts relating to the Whittington Press. View more posts with wood engravings! -- source link
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