#color lithography

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

First serialized in Pearson’s (UK) and Cosmopolitan (US) in 1897, H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds wasn’t the very first alien story ever told, but it is probably the most enduring and culturally significant of those early tales. Wells wasn’t just drawing on the nascent genre of science fiction but also the (earthly) invasion literature that was first popularized by George Tomkyns Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking ( Blackwood's Magazine, 1871). Wells later wrote that War of the Worlds was inspired by the genocidal treatment of Aboriginal Tasmanians by British colonizers.

The Limited Edition’s Club edition of H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds was published in 1964. It is illustrated with ten color lithographs, drawn directly on the plates by Joeseph Mugnaini, as well as a number of smaller line drawings by the artist. We posted a few years ago about the Limited Editions Club edition of The Time Machine, also illustrated by Mugnaini. These two books were originally issued together in an ochre-yellow slipcase that matches the end papers; the linen-weave book-cloth bindings are dyed in an opposite color scheme (black with a red spine label for The Time Machine and red with a black spine label for War of the Worlds). The boxed set was designed by Peter Oldenburg and printed on white wove paper from Curtis Paper Company by Abraham Colish at his press in Mt. Vernon, NY. The lithographs were pulled by master printer George C. Miller. 

I love how Mugnaini’s colorful illustrations manifest a sense of unease: the yellow and red skies backing the alien invaders, the extreme heat of blue streaked flames, the kaleidoscopic ruins of a building. Mugnaini was best known for his many collaborations with another Science Fiction heavyweight: Ray Bradbury, including cover art for the first paperback and hardback editions of Fahrenheit 451. A previous Staff Pick featured Mugnaini’s illustrations for the Limited Editions Club of Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.

You can find more posts on the work of H. G. Wells here.

Check out more from illustrator Joe Mugnaini here.

And here you can find more from Limited Editions Club.

For more Staff Picks here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Staff Pick of the Week #The War of the Worlds #H. G. Wells #Joe Mugnaini #Joseph Mugnaini #Limited Editions Club #Fine Press Books #Fine Press #Invasion Literature #SF #SFF #Science Fiction #Ray Bradbury #lithographs #color lithographs #color lithography #Peter Oldenburg #Curtis Paper Company #Curtis Paper Mill #Abraham Colish #Press of A. Colish #olivia

[frogteethblogteeth]

BLOOMER COSTUMES OR WOMAN’S EMANCIPATION. ca 1853

#I feel a little silly putting things in all caps but that's what it says on the thing #bloomers #bloomer costume #1850s #19th century #lithographs #color lithography #prints #fashion

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Salvador Dalí, "Spider of the Evening" (detail), 1940

#salvador dali #dali #art #painting #surrealism #surrealist art #spanish art #work on paper #lithograph #color lithograph #lithography #litography #20th century art #20th century #print #salvador dalí #paintings #art detail #surreal

[internationalemeteorologie]

Søren Martinsen

Striped fields at Herlufmagle. 2018

#søren martinsen #art on paper #color landscape #lithography #regionalism #contemporary art #danish artist #beautiful nature

[pagansphinx]

Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988) • The Piano Lesson : Homage to Mary Lou • 1984 • Color Lithograph • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

#art #lithography #fine art #art history #romare bearden #african american artist #black history month 2024 #genre scene #black artist #20th century american art #harlem renaissance #black art matters #pagan sphinx art blog #art blogs on tumblr #art lovers on tumblr #colorful artwork

[arinewman7]

La Toilette

Mai Trung Thu

Color Lithography on silk, 1962

#Mai Trung Thu #art #artist #painter #painting #La Toilette #Color Lithography on silk #1962

[awkwardxbeing]

just showing off my art 💖

#printmaking #art #lithography #color lithograph #support artists #struggling artist #body positivity art #curlyheadbritt #female artists #printmaker

[the-cricket-chirps]

Will Barnet

Play

1952

#color lithograph #will barnet #baby #play #lithography #lithograph #art print #modern art #american art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #beauty #aesthetic #art prints

[thebotanicalarcade]

Pl. 28: Tapisserie, par Henri Gillet [Tapestry. by Henri Gillet] by MCAD Library Via Flickr: Henri Gillet (French illustrator, 1880-1920) 1900 color lithograph 26.3 cm (height) x 36 cm (width) Scanned from: Album De La Décoration. Paris: Librairie des arts décoratifs See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book. intranet.mcad.edu/library

#MCAD #MCAD Library #MCAD Special Collection #A.Calavas #Album De La Décoration #Henri Gillet #color lithographs #Decoration and ornament #Birds in art #Peacocks in art #tapestries #Plants in art #Trees in art #Landscapes #Lithography #flickr #iris #iris flowers #brambles #roses #rosa #pinus

[fantafonte]

PAUSE《ひととき》 Lithograph, ed.5, 10cm X 10cm, 2022 Naomi HASHIMOTO

#printmaking #lithography #lithograph #color lithograph #artwork #small print #small art #fantafonte #naomi hashimoto #橋本尚美 #リトグラフ #coffee cup #mug

[i12bent]

Barry Lereng Wilmont (b. Jan. 17, 1936) is a Canadian-born Danish artist who was trained at the Royal Academy and who works in several media - lithography, painting, glass, sculpture, and books.

Willmont has always been captivated by the creation myths of indigenous peoples, such as the Zia people in New Mexico and related stories he has found all over North America.

Above, a lithograph from his Zia series, 1995

#art #danish artist #canadian-born artist #barry wilmont #danish royal academy of fine arts #zia people #creation myth #lithography #color lithograph #new mexico #mythographic art

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend! 

For this holiday weekend, we bring you the cheery tale of bravery, triumph, fall from grace, exile, revenge, and assasination in Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus, illustrated by Hungarian artist Pál C. Molnár (1894-1981). This is the fifth volume of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. 

Coriolanus was written around 1608 and first printed in the folio of 1623. Many of the artists in this series got to choose a work of Shakespeare they wanted to illustrate. Molnar had a few reasons that drew him to Coriolanus. First, he wanted to illustrate a play he had not seen on stage. Secondly, he selected this play because it is one of Shakespeare's so-called Latin dramas, and he had a particular interest in ancient fashions and mosaics, and the influence is quite visible. Lastly, he selected Coriolanus, because the Hungarian poet Petőfi was so inspired by it that he translated it into Hungarian a hundred years earlier.

The paintings were made by Molnár in tempera paint to the exact size that they would appear in the book. They were reproduced by lithography at the studio of Mourlot Freres in Paris. Some of the illustrations took as many as fifteen layers to achieve the quality of Molnar’s hand. It is this attention to detail, quality, and the labor involved in the production, that make these books so fine. 

The volume was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish. Each of the LEC volumes of Shakespeare’s works are illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.  

View more Limited Edition Club posts.

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Shakespeare Weekend #the tragedy of coriolanus #coriolanus #William Shakespeare #shakespeare #Bruce Rogers #c. pal molnar #Press of A. Colish #paintings #tempera #color lithography #lithography #fine press printing #fine press books #hungarian artists #mourlot freres #Herbert Farjeon #teddy

[frogteethblogteeth]

ADA REHAN, “ The Water Lily.“ Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Lithography by Knapp & Company, 1889 

#frogs #plants #flowers #water lily #Ada Rehan #actresses #comedians #performers #trading cards #costumes #lithograph #color lithograph #lithography #prints #people #animals #gilded age #american #north america #1889 #1880s #19th century #fancy dress

[artandsouldesignstudio]

The last of my mono prints from project 3! • • • #art #litho #lithography #print #paper #ink #taste #vegetables #cooking #eating #color #eat #lithographs #mono #edition https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmk30FLIip/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#art #litho #lithography #print #paper #ink #taste #vegetables #cooking #eating #color #eat #lithographs #mono #edition

[camillescreations]

Ed and Stede sunset sketch! I was trying to come up with an idea for my lithography class and pirates appeared! Let's see if I can make this into a successful lithograph 😬

Let me know if you'd like to see this fully colored/cleaned up! I might even make the digital drawing into my first ever print 🤔

#ofmd art #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #our flag means death season 2 #stede bonnet #edward teach #stede x ed #gentlebeard #stedward #ofmd artwork #ofmd fanart #our flag means death art #art #drawing #print idea #print #art print #procreate

[theegoist]

Pierre Soulages (French, 1919-2022) - Lithographie No. 17, color lithograph, 33,8 x 25,9 cm (1964)

#pierre soulages