Saturday 20 December 2014

A Happy Christmas 2014 and Best Wishes


And my special thanks and wishes for all the nice fellow print enthousiasts and print collectors, friendly Blog-article observers and commentors, reasonable print sellers and even more reasonable print exchangers, hard working "German-pioneering-Women-Woodblock-Printmakers-born-before-1900" out-there-in-the-field Scouts, enthousiastic and professional text editors and correctors, important and vital information and new picture senders, always cooperative museum and other email-answering archival correspondents, friendly car-boot and flee-market sellers, unselfish charity shop owners.

it is now time for a rest:    



And in person I would like to thank: Wolfgang Barina, James Barnes, Heert Burgers, Michelle Bos, Bill Carl, Tom Clemens, Charles Haji-Baba, Clive Christy-Hazell, Lily Lotus Green, Ortwin Danckert, Wim Eilander, Hans von Döhren, Ed Ogul, Erik (El-Vivio) Korbeek, Felicity Naylor, Holger Paul, Steven Muzy, Hubert Fricke, Karen Charbonneau, Klaus Ohlig, Klaus Voigt, Markus Wehner, Vlatko Milosevski, Cees Oorthuijs, Peter Weidlich, Auke Boorsma, Neil Philip, Sergei Prodolnov, Shaun D'Arcy-Burt, Henk Spruit, Stephen Bishop, Steve Deniss, Thomas Treibig and all their loved ones who helped making 2014 an unforgettable year. 


And to all deer persons "out there" I might have forgotten to mention. 


These two card/examples by printmaker Arthur Allen Lewis  (Mobile, Alabama, 1873 - New York City, 1957). I'm wondering: who was CBH ?? (or PBH)  (the surprising answer is given by reader Tom in next posting).  

The Newspaper reading dad found at: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?44052-Vintage-Christmas-cards


All pictures borrowed freely from the Internet for friendly, educational and non commercial use only. 

2 comments:

  1. Hello Gerrie - And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours, as well. Your blog is a continuing delight for me. Now let me try to answer your question and possibly send you down another rabbit-hole of wonders.

    I think CHB is really PHB for Paul Burty Haviland. The images at the link below include the same print without the sender's monogram, a separate bookplate with the monogram and another bookplate for Paul Burty Haviland.

    http://www2.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc60/exhibit/bookplates.shtml

    PBH and Allen Lewis knew each other well through their involvement with the Alfred Steiglitz, 291 group.

    In any case, I bought a lot of Allen Lewis material at a small auction years ago - somewhere I have a painting, several prints and drawings and a folder full of bookplates and greeting cards. Maybe this will motivate me to dig it out. So, thanks!

    Tom/Boston

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    1. Thank you Tom, this little card indeed is opening a rabbit-hole. I will update the posting a.s.a.p. with this and information. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too !

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