Mid-Century Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers

by Elena M. Sarni

The history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)--one of America's longest-running artist collectives--is explored through their work. The Folly Cove Designers were a mid-20th-century group of American artists block printing in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann. Their blocks were carved into linoleum, and then primarily printed on fabric. Through historical ephemera and photographs, Sarni explores the history, the work, and the group dynamics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616899301
• ISBN13: 9781616899301
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 224 Pages