Ricky Jay, Glenn Ligon, and others
The Magic Magic Book
1994
Scroll
- Author: Ricky Jay
- Artist: Glenn Ligon
- Artist: Vija Celmins
- Artist: Jane Hammond
- Artist: William Wegman
- Artist: Justen Ladda
- Artist: Philip Taaffe
- Publisher: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Editor: May Castleberry
- Printer (relief prints and letterpress): Patrick Reagh
- Printer (relief print and letterpress): Leslie Miller
- Printer (offset lithographs): Stinehour Press
The Magic Magic Book
1994
Physical Qualities
Two bound volumes with offset color lithographs, relief prints and letterpress, case with embossing, Book (vol. 1): 250 x 204 x 13 mm. (9 13/16 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in.)
Book (vol. 2): 250 x 204 x 17 mm. (9 13/16 x 8 1/16 x 11/16 in.)
Case: 269 x 241 x 42 mm. (10 9/16 x 9 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Print & Drawing Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 1995 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number
1995.133a-b
Whitney Museum of American Art
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Inscribed: Colophon page, graphite, '277'. Opposite page, graphite, 'J. Hammond', 'P. Taaffe', 'William Wegman', 'Glenn Ligon', 'V. Celmins', 'Justen Ladda'
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