Willard Clark: Printer & Printmaker

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2008. Expanded trade edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. SIGNED. 95pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Forest green cloth over boards. Rear board does not quite lay flat. In the dust jacket, with very minor sunning to the spine. Prospectus tucked in. Willard Clark (1910-1992) was born in Massachusetts was raised in Argentina as a young boy. He studied painting in the mid-1920s at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. In 1928, he decided to move to California where his father was working for Phillips Petroleum. While traveling westward, he stopped in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The people, the prevalence of spoken Spanish (perhaps a reminder of his youth in Argentina), and the southwestern landscape attracted him, causing him to abandon his California destination and open up a printing business in Santa Fe. Clark's career in commercial printing and color woodcut illustration came to define the art colony of Santa Fe in the late 1920s.

This edition increases the number of illustrations from 66 in the original edition to 119 in this new edition. Inscribed by David Farmer, in the year of publication, to the late Santa Fe bookseller Nick Potter on the page preceding the title page.