by some of the most iconic writers of the modern era
Every book lover's collection includes a few treasured favorites with frayed edges and covers soft from wear. Richard Baker's remarkable paintings of vintage paperback books capture these intimate details. The "book portraits" feature titles by some of the most iconic writers of the modern era, from Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain to George Orwell and Susan Sontag. Brooklyn-based still-life painter Richard Baker started painting dog-eared copies of vintage paperbacks several years ago. He scours used bookstores in search of appropriately careworn paperbacks to immortalize in his 12-by-10.5-inch gouache portraits: "No precious first editions, no rare things--just your common companions."
by some of the most iconic writers of the modern era
Classic Paperbacks 1000 Piece Puzzle
by Emily Dickinson
Paper Flowers Cards and Envelopes
by cutting and layering tiny pieces of paper on black ink backgrounds
Classic Paperbacks Notebook
by Richard Baker
Yogi Berra Notecards
by Yogi Berra
Color
by Princeton Architectural Press
Fredericks & Mae Paper Games
by Fredericks & Mae
The Story of Gardening
by ity on garden history
Stampville
by Aurélian Débat
Fredericks & Mae Playing Cards
by the Brooklyn-based design duo Fredericks & Mae
A Slice through America
by federal and state geologists over the course of one hundred years
The Lawyer Says
by Jan Cigliano Hartman
I am Milan
by based in Berlin
Woodcut Journal
by his popular book
Connected Notecards
by hand
Paula Scher
by two of the theater's artistic directors
Prints and Their Makers
by more than one hundred artists
An Architect’s Pencil Set
by Princeton Architectural Press Staff
Inside Paragraphs
by Cyrus Highsmith
Button Power
by Christen Carter
Cultivated 1000 Piece Puzzle
by designer and photographer Christin Geall
Radiant Notecards
by of eight books
Woodcut Memory Game
by Woodcut Memory
Vicious Nonsense
by who became brutal critics when writing about their fellow wordsmiths
At the Beach 1000 Piece Puzzle
by an artist statement from Sevilla-based illustrator María Medem
Pigology 1000 Piece Puzzle
by Camilla Pintonato
Clothwork Notecards
by extraordinary post-WWII Japanese textile artist Ayako Miyawaki
A Walk in the Forest
by Maria Dek
Wild Sea Notecards
by Irish design agency Superfolk Led by the husband and wife team of Gearoid Muldowney
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