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Brrrrrrr! Too Cold to Go to Work Today.

It is currently -4F, with potential -30 windchills here in Milwaukee today. So, Special Collections, the UWM Libraries, and 95% of UWM Campus will be closed today, January 21, 2025, because of extreme temperature conditions. We're just hunkering down in our cozy little cottages for the day, and hopefully we'll see y'all tomorrow.

These color wood engravings are by Kentucky wood engraver Joanne Price as illustrations for Sena Jeter Naslund’s winter story, When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story, handprinted and published in Monterey, Kentucky by Larkspur Press in an edition of 42 copies in 2021.

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Gwenda Morgan (British, 1908 - 1991), Midwinter, 1962, wood engraving, signed, titled and numbered 15/50.

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Gwen Raverat - From a Window (1946)

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#Caturday 🐱:

Cats at the Window, 1929 Wanda Gág (USA, 1893-1946) Wood engraving, 8 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (21.6 x 18.7 cm) Tacoma Art Museum 1970.154.10

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Grace Albee, Americana, 1964, wood engraving on paper, image: 6 1⁄8 x 4 3⁄4 in. (15.7 x 12.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.1

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William Baxter Closson (American,1848-1926)

Girl Reading

wood engraving

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Jean Ulen, The Beginning, 1937

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New York Medical College for Women by National Library of Medicine Via Flickr: Collection: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) Publication: April 16, 1870 Format: Still image Abstract: Woman student dissecting the leg of a cadaver. Extent: 1 print Technique: wood engraving NLM Unique ID: 101436227 NLM Image ID: A013010 Permanent Link: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436227

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Dame Eileen Rosemary Mayo DBE (British, 1906 – 1994)

Wood engraving, printed in black ink on thin ivory tissue.

Cat in Cherry Tree. 1947. Source.

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TRONIE ALONIE

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm.” —Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata I thought it would be fun to take “it” “up a level” and draw a “tronie” (Dutch for face, “Pearl Girl” is one of these) based on an AI-generated image…

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A Nesting Feathursday Blackbird

The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) is unrelated to New World blackbirds, as blackbirds of the Western Hemisphere are Icterids, and the Eurasian Blackbird is a thrush (Turdidae). This wood engraving of a nesting Eurasian Blackbird is by the heralded English American engraver Clare Leighton (1898-1989) from the recent book Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology (2023) as reproduced in a republished review of the book by the British nature writer and columnist for The Guardian, Nicola Chester in the latest issue of Block & Burin (No. 72, Fall 2024, pp 26-30), the official publication of the Wood Engravers' Network, a full run of which we are currently cataloging. Chester writes:

And here are her messages for our times, fresh as a boxwood shaving: 'if I am defiant in my defense of the country side, it is because I know it is the last hope of humanity . . . the strong, sane humour of the earth, without which there is no health. At no time has this been more needed, and at no time have we been at greater risk of losing it.' Clare Leighton, 'artist as quickener of the world' died aged 91, after a life of nature, creativity and work, peace, friendship and the expansive arms of inclusion.

We'll be acquiring Clare Leighton's Rural Life soon, and certainly posting images from it. You can read Nicola Chester's full review here.

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Geri Waddington

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Gwenda Morgan (British, 1908-1991)

by Gwenda Morgan

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Clare Leighton - On the Moor (1931)

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#Caturday 😺:

Agnes Miller Parker (Scottish, 1895-1980) Siamese Cat and Butterfly (Greetings Card) Printed 1939 Color wood engraving on folded card 13 x 10.4 cm (image), folded card 18 x 14 cm (folded out size: 18 x 28 cm) National Galleries of Scotland GMA 3057 "Miller Parker produced numerous commercial prints featuring Siamese cats, including this one. Her cats were often accompanied by other creatures or plants including birds, butterflies and flowers, revealing the animal's natural sense of curiosity. Many of her prints were based on the countless studies she made of her own pets, though few of these drawings survive today."

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Doris Hatt, Walton Castle from Dial Hill, 1930

Signed, inscribed and dated in pencil (Print No. 11)

Wood engraving | 4.5 x 6 inches