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(#133) A.D.A.C.:

Edition of 1077 of which 300 copies are signed and numbered 1-300; 26 are signed A-Z as artist's proofs and three sets are signed as progressives.

July 19, 1988 Fourteen colors 17 - 1/8" x 24"

Client: Art Directors and Artists Club of Sacramento 2791 - 24th Street, Sacramento CA 95818. Telephone 1-916-731-8802 A-Z: Artist's own use Progressives: one set to A.D.A.C. (Western Art Directors Club 23rd Annual West Coast Show, 1988; Graphis Posters 90) (facsimile)

(Western Art Directors Club 23rd Annual West Coast Show, 1988; Graphis Posters 90)

Model: Self

Those are my own hands in the poster, setting lead type in a job stick. You could put Johann Gutenberg to work in my printshop and he'd take to it without missing a beat. All we'd have to do would be teach him English, and maybe not even that. I know a little German.

Not much has changed in letterpress printing in the last 550 years, except, of course, for it becoming obsolete. Letterpress is still good for some things, but it's not the workhorse that it was when I started printing. Maybe you wonder how I draw both my own hands. First I hold the type in my left hand and draw that. Then, I turn the paper over and draw my left hand again, only this time it's holding the composing stick. Then, I trace through onto one or the other side and there you have it: two hands doing something while the third hand draws.