tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88731411697156290032024-03-05T01:39:13.015-08:00A Naturalist's MiscellanyRuminations on the Art and Literature of Rare Natural History from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries: a compendium of fine Copperplate and Wood Engravings, Rare Books, Letterpress Printing and fine Nature Prose at Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books, ABAA. Please visit us at www.lowryjames.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04664528392436475791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8873141169715629003.post-55490142874827276562014-09-19T15:48:00.000-07:002014-10-07T11:19:35.241-07:00Charles Livingston Bull<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Charles Livingston Bull</b> </i></span></div>
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The preeminent wildlife painter of early twentieth century America, Charles Livingston Bull was a private, reserved artist,
and gentleman. Analytical in nature and informed by his training and practice
as a taxidermist early in his career,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
CL </span>Bull became a reclusive artist who exuded a soulful grace which
emanated from a lifetime of attuned observation, contemplation and subsequent depiction of the character and motion of all creatures albeit bird or beast. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> N</span>ot inclined to self reflection yet
without exception he certainly would not have accepted the
contemporary levels of personal invasion- and misaligned criticism, critique and judgment which has become the pervasive norm for any public figure-
literary, artistic or otherwise. </div>
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Although Bull was a private unassuming artist- working
from the privacy of his two acre animal filled compound on the outskirts of New York City- he was not
ungracious to those with less or no artistic talent. Perhaps this was his secret, and his inherent gift. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Bull's</span> uncompromising personal integrity speaks
to a dignity recognized in old souls- those with the quiet gifts of a still temperament;
an artistic temperament, and an unwavering moral code; a quality which is much
reflected in his ability to render the integrity of the beast as witnessed in the
elegant grace of teal’s flight or the majesty of the Ram in repose, or the boundary
established by the Rooster’s stance or haunting tension of the hunter in
pursuit of his prey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As a painter and illustrator working in the first quarter of the twentieth century
Charles Livingston Bull’s oeveure was impressive; illustrating for
publications such as Saturday Evening Post, McClure’s, The Country Gentleman,
and the nature stories by the writers Jack London, Sir Charles Roberts, William J.
Long and others with an estimated over 7000 images in nearly 150 books and
articles, as well as paintings for advertising and propaganda posters, both commercial
and governmental.</div>
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Yet despite his
artistic foot print, and quite possibly due to his solitary nature, Bull holds
a regrettably minor place in the pantheon of literature of the lives of the
American Illustrator in the Twentieth Century. </div>
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Influenced by the traditions of Japanese woodblock prints
and the English Aesthetic; The Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, and particularly the bold yet sinuous drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, Bull
established an attractive style of linear and tonal compositions, and as book illustrations were an appreciated
precursor to the Golden Age of American Illustration which was ushered in by the talents of his friend and colleague N.C. Wyeth as well as Maxfield Parrish, Jessie Willcox Smith and J.C. Leyendecker, and others. </div>
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CL Bull's monochromatic style
of rendering the animal in the natural setting with charcoal and ink on paper-
the perfect medium for the reproduction as a halftone for book illustration - all but
established illustrated wildlife writing and the illustrated animal story as
<i>the</i> most popular genre of the early twentieth century, and CL Bull was <i>the</i> chosen animal illustrator for many writers. </div>
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Every popular magazine of the day would
contain at least one illustrated animal story, much in thanks to appeal of CL Bull's
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite Bull’s influence on this culture, his
illustrations were never subordinate to the text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His refined style displays the finest attributes
of the aesthetic, and not simply the narrative, yet not void of the pathos or
mystery of the tales of the hunter and the hunted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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He was an illustrator of the highest rank, in the highest demand,
yet his artistic aspirations and abilities were loftier, and thankfully were expressed
in his elegant original compositions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">His work is now held in the permanent collections of the Brandywine Museum, the Glenbow Museum, Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum and the National Museum of Wildlife Art. </span></div>
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At Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books we have collected the work of this most under-appreciated artist Charles Livingston Bull for some
years now and are pleased to offer a fine selection of his work, including six
original charcoal and ink drawings from his Rochester, NY period- as well as the only book both written and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull and the nature stories
of others, and scarce original poster art. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04664528392436475791noreply@blogger.com0Whidbey Island, Washington, USA47.9982761 -122.4395025999999747.3203646 -123.73039609999996 48.6761876 -121.14860909999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8873141169715629003.post-22309189510987308512011-01-16T18:23:00.000-08:002011-01-16T18:23:06.213-08:00The Armchair Naturalist<div style="text-align: center;">In today's travel section of the New York Times there is a terrific article on </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/13/travel/20110116-INDIABIRDS-3.html">Birding in India</a>, illustrated with color glossy photographs of showy birds in their technicolor settings. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Today we have the opportunity and ability to span the globe</div><div style="text-align: center;"> in search of the world's most splendid natural wonders, and many do.</div><div style="text-align: center;">These fortunate folk are known as <i>Eco Tourists. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHytl7tFiupbcFgPSNrqLKJ-VHHDjoZJ5MSol9Kbb-sySr_hRiRhz7RjI0_pR6-iUU5xaJxXsrFmpLyrOh9CdVmJU8vm5BNcucbWNpcWRLSgR69IUqo4IIfiSBsECY6AvhuK9NH-1fyfg/s1600/scan0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHytl7tFiupbcFgPSNrqLKJ-VHHDjoZJ5MSol9Kbb-sySr_hRiRhz7RjI0_pR6-iUU5xaJxXsrFmpLyrOh9CdVmJU8vm5BNcucbWNpcWRLSgR69IUqo4IIfiSBsECY6AvhuK9NH-1fyfg/s320/scan0006.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lowryjames.com/cgi-bin/lowry/4652.html">Kingfisher</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">During the 18th and 19th Centuries, international travel wasn't as opportune. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thus witness the birth of a new demographic: The A<i>rmchair or Parlor Naturalist</i>, a person who in simplest terms was passionate about the discovery of new species, and who, without the means as a worldwide explorer, enjoyed the joy of discovery from the comfort of his or her study or parlor.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Thus accompanying the ranks of the <i>armchair traveler, </i>this new interest created opportunity for an entirely new interest audience, and the book publishing world took note. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> In the pages of these fine volumes, the glories of natural world were available for everyone's enjoyment. </div><div style="text-align: center;"> Both The Naturalist's Library and The Naturalist's Miscellany excelled at the discovery, documentation and representation, from both life and perfected stuffed specimen, of new species: birds, animals, insects and aquatic life, from often previously uncharted territories around the globe. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wonderful new images now filled the minds, hearts and souls of the previously uninformed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">And due to their discovery and documentation, many species were exported worldwide</div><div style="text-align: center;"> to survive in lands far from their natural habitats. </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2HTOci3C-QDLqOadtqQ5U40nBISlpUVThsCCPJ4wlAGs5fdSUyslZt_KYtY6VQpIWnESv41bbI54BNgLbXpCf7Y9gJJu2Rc_lGkel1tvvjJbA19Mi7uVlofRCYq8eUQBhNSaM7_w23-P/s1600/4456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid2HTOci3C-QDLqOadtqQ5U40nBISlpUVThsCCPJ4wlAGs5fdSUyslZt_KYtY6VQpIWnESv41bbI54BNgLbXpCf7Y9gJJu2Rc_lGkel1tvvjJbA19Mi7uVlofRCYq8eUQBhNSaM7_w23-P/s320/4456.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.lowryjames.com/cgi-bin/lowry/4456.html">The Spike-crested Peacock</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>The quantity of newly documented species is astounding, many of which have since been rendered extinct. Regardless, they still thrive in the pages of these essential naturalist's works. <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04664528392436475791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8873141169715629003.post-86660838949163528942011-01-12T17:51:00.000-08:002011-01-12T17:51:04.986-08:00Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie<div style="text-align: center;">Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b> Paris 1763</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><br />
</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">These fine original copperplate engravings printed on heavy handmade rag stock</div><div style="text-align: center;"> were published as part of the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, </div><div style="text-align: center;">science and industry produced during <i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Age of Enlightenment. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This keynote work extolled the artistic virtues and labors </div><div style="text-align: center;">of the common man during pre-Revolutionary France.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZv0oGC3LIzmGFHqjRxgr_GNzrPQ348DaZ2puNW86hMmyxzYQITmi6s-QBiI2OnmFuKZ5nQxMQHo2nP6KatRcVC0MMUWk54B_5EaMBz2EDpcW8dK5ZiffjuWPUDgAbKQA8bYNLGxFPows/s1600/4597.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKZv0oGC3LIzmGFHqjRxgr_GNzrPQ348DaZ2puNW86hMmyxzYQITmi6s-QBiI2OnmFuKZ5nQxMQHo2nP6KatRcVC0MMUWk54B_5EaMBz2EDpcW8dK5ZiffjuWPUDgAbKQA8bYNLGxFPows/s320/4597.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Didactic in nature, the plates were engraved and documented in meticulous detail, </div><div style="text-align: center;">and represented a fine visual record of French culture and achievement.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After the French Revolution, society could thus be recreated,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> here inspired by the illustrations and descriptions of the daily toils and talents of the common folk. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Today these refined engravings are prized for their diverse and elegant representations</div><div style="text-align: center;"> of the arts and craftsmanship, as well as attention to detail of costume, elements of travel, </div><div style="text-align: center;">architectural landscape and perspective. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04664528392436475791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8873141169715629003.post-70295502844530121422011-01-12T17:05:00.000-08:002011-01-12T17:05:27.011-08:00Welcome<div style="text-align: justify;">Welcome to 2011 and the new Blog of Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books. It's a New Year and a New Time, and after a Quarter of a Century in the Rare Print Trade, I felt it was time to get up to speed. We've named our blog '<i>A Naturalist's Miscellany</i>', because it will be just that: a diverse offering of our knowledge of the art and literature of fine and rare Natural History, and the artisans who made a difference. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is where we will host our semi regular postings of our articles and the featured highlights from the shop, as well as random and related ruminations on the rare print and book trade. We hope you find the offerings informative, enlightening. and perhaps even a bit entertaining. One never know what may appear on these pages, so please keep us in your sights and let us know what you think. With kind regards, Priscilla </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04664528392436475791noreply@blogger.com0