
Sightseer
By Maureen O'Hara Ure
Salt Lake City, Utah: 2007. Edition of 58.
8 x 9.75"; 19 pages. 10 photopolymer relief prints watercolored by hand. Accordion fold with front leaf unattached and back leaf attached. Illustrated on one side only. Verso of each open spread blank. Printed letterpress by Jennifer Sorensen. Book design by Maureen O'Hara Ure and Jennifer Sorensen. Font: Garamond. Papers: Johannot and MHK Indian Handmade. Printed from photopolymer plates on the Vandercook 15-21 Press at the Book Arts Studio at the J. Willard Marriott Library. Of the edition: Numbers 1 to 30 handcolored by the artist. Bound by Amber Heaton. Laid in cloth covered clamshell box with titles blind stamped on front.
Maureen O'Hara Ure, Colophon: "Last winter, I spent 3 weeks traveling throughout India, drawing in museums and at historical sites, and on long, dusty taxi rides. When I returned to my studio at the University of Utah in January, 2006, I looked back over my travel sketchbooks, and the 2,000 photographs I had taken, as I began painting a series of black and white miniatures on wood panel. After several months’ work, I selected from these images the 8 which make up this volume, this souvenir of my time in India."
$900