WEN 2016 Summer Workshop participants had the privilege of visiting the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s wonderful resources including the Museum’s current exhibitions as well as the Works on Paper Study Center and the Special Collections Library.
A book about wood engraving tools
Carl Montford shows images on his phone of the slow progression of a commissioned project to print from an original Thomas Bewick wood block alongside the original printed rooster in Bewick’s History of British Birds, vol. 1
Frederick Remington’s “Painting the Town Red” from Engraved Prints of Texas:1554-1900 in the Works on Paper Study Center
La Fontaine’s Fables illustrated by Gustave Doré from Special Collections
Albrecht Dürer’s The Babylonian Whore 1496-1498 in Works on Paper Study Center
J.J. Lankes, Bumble Bee and Big Elm in Aurora #10 in Works on Paper Study Center
Kara Walker’s Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005
Barry Moser’s illustrations for Moby Dick
