Rebecca Goodale ~ Maine

Prickly Pear
By Rebecca Goodale
1991. One of a kind.
Flag book with sandpaper and leather covers. Illustrated using ink and pencil on paper.

One of Goodale's books resulting from a stay in the American West.
$950

Night Neighborhood
By Rebecca Goodale
1999. Edition of 2.
11.5 x 10" star book with silkscreen prints and ink on paper.
$650

Library Books
By Rebecca Goodale
1998. One-of-a-Kind.
10.5 x 11", unique tunnel book using ink and collage on paper.
$450

Black Birds
By Rebecca Goodale
1995. Edition of 12.

A hand colored silkscreen flutter book with red ribbon.

This book was inspired by Ravens in Stika, Alaska who were excited by a spilled bag of popcorn in front of the local Woolworth's store. (Three copies remaining in the edition)
$225

Pleasant Pond
By Rebecca Goodale
1992. One-of-a-Kind.
Mixed media book with handmade paper by the artist. Handsewn stitchery design by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale trained as a fiber designer as well as a weaver. Her love of color, texture and thread come through in these lovely pages of blue and yellow.
$950

Grammanoides
By Rebecca Goodale
2005. Edition of 3.
Set of four books in a cloth covered box.

Four books from Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species make up this
set:
        Twenty Maine Sedges
        Five Maine Rushes
        Fifteen Maine Grasses
        Cyperaceae
Sedges is a banner book with hand colored silkscreen prints with collage. Rushes is an accordion with ink on paper with cutouts. Grasses uses a compound binding with mixed media prints. Cyperaceae consists of hand colored gelatin prints in an accordion book.
$2,100 (Last Copy)

Fishing/Mating
By Rebecca Goodale
2004. Edition of 5.

A dos-a-dos binding with cut paper and ink mounted on paste papers.

During the mating season the Least Tern male will woo his mate with his fishing abilities. The female is given a fish each time they mate. The male spends his days perpetually fishing and mating. (Two copies remaining in the edition)
$850

Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.
10.5 x 9 x 4.25" Set of three rotating rings. Each ring in its own box. Rings are hand colored silkscreen prints with collage.

Goodale uses different structures and presentations to make points about Maine's threatened and endangered species. In this creation she accompanies images with sound. Each ring is a flexagon which can be twisted and at the same time make noise. The sounds grow fainter as the species decline in number. Endangered makes the most noise with the black racer, ringed boghaunter, roseate, least and black terns as well as the tall white violet. The Extirpated ring sound is fainter with images of the walrus, grey wolf, wolverine, and caribou. When one tries to twist sound from Extinct there is ominous silence as the rotating ring displays pigeon, great auk, sea mink, and Labrador duck.
$1,450

Lynx
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.
19 x 12", two section french fold cloth bound book with hand colored silkscreen prints.

To capture this animal listed on Maine's Threatened and Endangered Species list, Goodale visited the zoo where there were three little Lynx kittens. To be sure she captured their actual size on the pages she made puppets. From these she created "stencils" of the kittens in different playful positions.

Docherty says in "Invitation to Wonder" that "Lynx, shows three big-pawed kittens playing insouciantly. Such signs of regeneration co-exist painfully with references to the "threatened" and endangered" statuses that permeate Goodale's imagery. Together they suggest that it is late, but perhaps not yet too late, to intervene on behalf of species that are doing what they can to survive."
$1050

Eggs
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.

6 x 4.25 x 1.5" An accordion book using mixed media of archival ink jet prints and ink on paper.

Fifteen birds' eggs are arranged by size. Each cutout is the actual size of the egg and the egg patterns are typical for that species. While generally in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species documents those that are disappearing this book points the reader to think of continuation and hope with the promise of new life under the delicate shell. (Two copies remaining in the edition)
$450

Fifteen Maine Birds
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.
11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage.

This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

"In Fifteen Maine Birds, Goodale carries the ornithological interest of her predecessors forward in a comparatively abstract way. She simplifies and flattens her depictions of threatened and endangered birds and sets them against colorful backgrounds. The grasshopper sparrow, American pipit, and upland sandpiper appear together on a two-page spread. Squares of purple, orange, and green separate the individual species and unite the ensemble in a vibrant secondary color scheme. Touches of collage and the relative poses of the birds also hold the pages together compositionally. The threatened upland sandpiper looks back at the endangered, and more static, grasshopper sparrow and American pipit while striding in the opposite direction. Such iconographically thought-provoking arrangements underscore Goodale's environmental concerns." (Invitation to Wonder by Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College)
$1,250

Vernal Pool
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.
12.5" closed; 19.5" extended theater book in 12.5 x 9" tyvek envelope. Slider illustrations hand colored silkscreen prints.

Vernal pools are small wet areas in the springtime. In Maine, they are the breeding habitat for four species. One of these is the blue salamander. By the time summer arrives the eggs have hatched and the pools have evaporated. This lovely artist rendering of the pools slides away to reveal the mating salamanders. (Last copy.)
$150

Butler Sanctuary
By Rebecca Goodale
2004. Edition of 5.
12 x 15.5" double accordion in green cloth boards. Hand colored silkscreen prints with cutouts.

A beautiful rendering of a rare Maine rhododendron. Its growth area is at the northern most range in southern Maine. It grows in a five acre tangle under the shade of birch and beech trees. The lovely blooms begin in late July.
$1,250

Maine Mussels in Freshwater
By Rebecca Goodale
2001. Edition of 10.
12 x 8". Hand colored silkscreen prints on handmade paper. Two section binding in flat backed case.

Comments from Docherty in "Invitation to Wonder": Goodale focuses on species behavior that is ingenious if not intentional. When their population density dwindles, some of these mollusks become hermaphrodites, thereby maintaining their reproductive capability. The larvae live as parasites on unknown host fish, adding further mystery to their survival.
$950

Beach Plum
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.
5.5 x 11" with hand colored silkscreen prints.
Two section binding with French folds and Japanese lace paper.

Goodale captures state wildlife in the form of two little birds perched on a branch with flowers blooming all about them.
$550

April/July: Two Maine Moths
By Rebecca Goodale, 2003.
Edition of 10. 9 x 8.5" hand-colored prints with collage in magic wallet binding with wraparound case.

This book focuses on two threatened Maine moths that share a common habitat but mature in different months. Goodale uses a magic wallet form which unites the twilight moth, April, and zanclognatha, July, in a pitch pine / scrub oak barren setting. Using this format restricts the viewer to see both moths simultaneously but these two species are adults in different seasons so one would not see them in the same view.
$350