Gouaches, Cut Paper, and Drawings, 1981
MC 81
20 items
About Lancy Hidy
Lance Hidy, freelance designer of posters and books and co- founder of the Godine Press, was born in Oregon in 1946. He studied art at Yale and has become known for his silk screen posters. Hidy lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
About the Collection
This collection consists of the preliminary studies by Lance Hidy for his League of New Hampshire Craftsmen poster. It includes gouaches, cut paper, and drawings, plus 4 printed versions of the poster.
Folder Listing
f. 1 One-paragraph statement by Hidy, signed and dated
4/11/85, describing the studies.
f. 1a Gouache, ll 1/4 x 7 1/4 inch, pumpkin-colored spinning
wheel.
f. 2 Gouache, ll 3/8 x 7 1/4 inch, pale yellow-orange
spinning wheel.
folio 3 Cut paper, 36 x 23 inch, red spinning wheel.
folio 4 Cut paper, 24 3/4 x 17 3/4 inch, designs on both sides,
blue spinning wheel on one side, purple on the other
side.
folio 5 Cut paper, figure and wheel, not attached to
background, with orange wheel [same size as folio 4].
folio 6 Cut paper, 23 x 13 inch, black wheel on pale orange
paper.
f. 7 Cut paper, ll 1/2 x 7 1/8 inch, earth green wheel
f. 8 Drawing, 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 inch, pencil on tracing paper,
torn in upper left.
folio 9 Drawing, 17 x ll 1/4 inch, ink on one side, pencil on
the other.
folio 10 Drawing, 26 x 17 inch, pencil and red ink on heavy
tracing vellum.
folio ll Drawing, 34 x 24 inch, pencil on white paper, both
sides, heavy wheel.
folio 12 Drawing, 35 x 24 inch, pencil on white paper, final
version with wheel trimmed down.
folio 13 Drawing, 34 1/2 x 23 3/4 inch, ink on frosted mylar,
key line master for printer to use in cutting masks
folio 14 Drawing, 23 x 4 inch, rough drawing of lettering, ink
outline on white paper.
folio 15 Final printing, 36 x 23 inch, gouache on paper.
f. 16 Final printing, ll x 8 1/2 inch, color swatches for
mixing silk screen inks.
folio 17 Printed version of the poster, limited edition silk
screen Number 76 of 200. Signed by the artist.
folio 18 Printed version of the poster, unlimited edition silk
screen, smaller margins than the limited edition.
folio 19 Printed version of the poster, offset facsimile, solid
colors, published by Alphabet Press, Natick, Mass.
f. 20 Printed version of the poster, postal card.