Buddy Lankes his book: woodcut bookplate with bare tree and birds – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Buddy Lankes his book: woodcut bookplate with bare tree and birds, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Buddy Lankes his book: woodcut bookplate with bare tree and birds
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Buddy Lankes is the artist here, and this piece is a woodcut bookplate, a small printed label meant to be pasted inside the front cover of a book to show who owned it. The image centers on a bare tree with birds perched in its branches, a simple, stark composition that suits the cut-block technique, where the white areas are what the artist carved away. Lankes, an American printmaker known for his tightly controlled woodcuts of rural and natural scenes, often made such plates for friends and collectors. Bookplates like this one were a long-standing tradition, and this example shows how an owner could turn a functional label into a small work of art.
| Original scan | 6,372 × 9,381 px · prints to 21 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15536_BookplateofBuddyLankesL |
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