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Encantadas, Two Sketches from Herman Melville's Enchanted Isles
Encantadas, Two Sketches from Herman Melville's Enchanted Isles
Encantadas, Two Sketches from Herman Melville's Enchanted Isles
Artist Rico Lebrun (American, born Italy, 1900 - 1964)

Encantadas, Two Sketches from Herman Melville's Enchanted Isles

Date1963
MediumThe Gehenna Press, limited edition book from the deluxe edition of 31, loose signatures laid into a blue buckram covered portfolio and enclosed in a blue buckram slipcase with leather label. Two suites of woodcuts (twelve total), one set printed on Green Moriki, all prints hand signed by Lebrun. Wood blocks cut by Leonard Baskin.
Dimensions24 x 17.5 x 1 (folded, slipcased)
Credit LineGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Michael T. Ricker in memory of William Paul Ricker
Object number2014.170