Broadsided! The Intersection of Art and Literature

Sue Huggins Leopard
Rochester, NY

Title: LVIII
Author: Emily Dickinson
Edition: 20
Size: 19 x 12 inches
Price: $450

To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Colophon: Etching & letterpress on Rives BFK.

Best of Show Award

Congratulations to Sue Huggins Leopard whose LVIII broadside was chosen by our jurors and by opening reception audience votes to receive the Best of Show Award for Broadsided! Sue Leopard is a highly regarded artist whose handmade books and prints are widely exhibited and held in many public and private collections. Her work is known for connecting a sense of memory to myth and history through images and words by using her own wood engravings, relief prints, collages, and handwriting. She has a particular interest in 19th century poetry, which led to this work incorporating the poems of Emily Dickinson. This beautiful work comprises a suite of twelve letter press broadsides with poems by Dickinson produced in an edition of 20. Each broadside is 19 by 12 inches and includes a Dickinson poem with an accompanying solar plate etching created by the artist. The imagery that the artist has chosen includes textiles, birds nests, spiders, gravestones, old photographs, and more. They were printed on Magnani Pescia and Rives BFK papers. Each is numbered and signed by Ms. Leopard. They are housed in presentation boxes done by Julia Nitzsche in Japanese linen and lined with handmade paper. Please contact Laura for more information about the entire suite of Dickinson broadsides.

The Text Featured on This Broadside

LVIII                                            Emily Dickinson

My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I\'m feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.

A power of butterfly must be,
The aptitude to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
and easy sweeps of sky.

So I must baffle at the hint,
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clue divine