I attended several book shows in New York City recently and was pleased to meet with Richard and Cathy Wagener .For those of you unfamiliar with Richard Wagener here is some biographical information taken directly from his website.
www.RichardWagener.com
Richard Wagener grew up in southern California spending a lot of time
with his grandfather in remote parts of the desert and up in the Sierra.
Early art classes introduced him to Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne.
After school activities included selling the evening newspapers at the
Disney studios where he met many of the illustrators and animators.
Richard has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego
and a graduate degree from Art Center College of Design. He has been
engraving wood for over thirty years and his work has been in a number
of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the
Book Club of California. In 2006 Richard established his own imprint
Mixolydian Editions to publish his own fine press editions of his work. He
has collaborated with David Pascoe of Nawakum Press, Santa
Rosa, California on two fine press books, one of which earned them the
2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. Richard was
also awarded the Oscar Lewis Award for contributions to the book arts.
He currently lives and works in northern California.
Richard Wagener grew up in southern California spending a lot of time
with his grandfather in remote parts of the desert and up in the Sierra.
Early art classes introduced him to Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne.
After school activities included selling the evening newspapers at the
Disney studios where he met many of the illustrators and animators.
Richard has an undergraduate degree from the University of San Diego
and a graduate degree from Art Center College of Design. He has been
engraving wood for over thirty years and his work has been in a number
of fine press editions, most notably with Peter Koch in Berkeley and the
Book Club of California. In 2006 Richard established his own imprint
Mixolydian Editions to publish his own fine press editions of his work. He
has collaborated with David Pascoe of Nawakum Press, Santa
Rosa, California on two fine press books, one of which earned them the
2016 Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. Richard was
also awarded the Oscar Lewis Award for contributions to the book arts.
He currently lives and works in northern California.
Check List Of Bookplates By Richard Wagener
Boston Book Congress 2000
James M.Goode
James P.Keenan 1994
Gregory Krisilas
Steven Sharafian
Cathy Wagener
Richard Wagener
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A Mystery Bookplate
Every so often I go to a dumpy bookstore in Philadelphia where I have only found two excellent bookplates in twenty years. A third one was found last week.
I know nothing about the owner of the plate nor the artist.
Here is an enlargement of his (her) cypher. At first I thought it said E Fry but on closer examination I now believe it is E Fay.
Does any one out there have any information about the owner or the artist ?
Bookplatemaven@hotmail.com
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An Old Mystery Solved
I remember exactly when I purchased this bookplate. It was in 2000 at the Boston Book Congress.I've written about it in the past because it made no sense to me.
Now the mystery is solved
See you next Week.
Best wishes
Andrew Peake
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4/26 Comments received from readers
Hi Lew
When I first saw Richard Wagener's bookplate of an emu,
my first thought was that he must be an Australian to be using the iconic
flightless bird (not much smaller than an ostrich), but now realise that he
isn't!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cannot
find a bookplate example, or that monogram, but could this be by Clark Fay?
Hope
that helps! - Mike
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