Artists' Books

 

Artist

Telfer Stokes

Nationality

Scottish

Artist Dates

b. 1940

Title of Work

Passage

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Date of Work

1972

Medium

Artist Book

Height

7"

Width

4"

Collection/Provenance

Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection

Status

Stored: FF_012_D

Location

UND Art Collections Repository

Artist Bio

Telfer Stokes was born in 1940 in St. Ives, Cornwall. Stokes studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and then went on to postgraduate studies at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1962. He is best known for founding WEPRODUCTIONS which published contemporary artist books from 1972 to 2002 (including the book pictured above). Stokes currently specializes in abstract steel sculptures and colorful abstract paintings. Telfer Stokes has work in the permanent collections of the Redfern Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and many others.

Additional Information

Black and white hand holding a paintbrush on the front cover with a teal back cover. Book contains an assortment of photographs which depict a slice of bread that is being covered in jam.

James Smith Pierce Collection

For more information about this book, please contact UND Art Collections.

Condition

Very good

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