Artists Collaboration Books
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wilde, John, 1919-2006
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content: John Wilde papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Linear Feet (Boxes 17-20, 22)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970s-circa 2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.wildjohn, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in chronological order with works by Wilde listed first.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Nearly 90 books form this series of limited edition, letterpress books published by Perishable Press and a few other publishers.  Wilde collaborated with authors and poets to produce illustrated books including Five Poems by Khatchik Minasian, Poems for Self Therepy by George Economou, Six Poems by J.D. Whitney, and John's Apples by Reeve Lindbergh. Wilde also authored and illustrated 44 Wilde 1944, What His Mother's Son Hath Wrought (WHMSHW), The Story of Jane and Joan, and  A Hamady Wilde Sampler/Salutations 1995. Also found in this series are books by Walter Hamady, Mary Laird Hamady, and other authors published by Perishable Press. Many of the books have personal annotations to Wilde from the authors and Walter Hamady.