#Davis Press

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Decorative Sunday

California craftsman, artist, and arts educator Pedro J. Lemos begins his forward to the Artist’s Scrap Book with this advice: “In this age where the artist takes his place in the practical professions with the architect, the engineer, the lawyer, journalist, and musician, he also finds as a needed part of his stock in trade a reference library.” Nearly a century later, the internet has dampened the need for any individual artist to collect a libraries-worth of physical reference material. Nevertheless, we here in Special Collections aspire to encourage the next generation of artists to find inspiration in print materials. 

Published in 1929 for the SchoolArts Magazine by Davis Press in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Artist’s Scrap Book collects the twelve-page forward in a portfolio with loose plates. Originally consisting of 104 plates, our copy has been missing ten plates since at least the early 70s. The plates are loaded with images, sometimes rather loosely associated with plate name (the “Busy Women” plate, for example, shows a woman busy examining herself in a hand mirror, and two women busily playing the harp). The forward contains dozens of brief descriptions of methods for utilizing the images (e.g. batik, linocut, appliqué, gesso) and examples of how an image can be utilized in a wide variety of applications (as in image ten above). Many of the images are sourced, with permission, from the Curtis Publishing Company’s roster of publications, most notably from the Ladies Home Journal. 

SchoolArts Magazine, originally published under the name The Applied Arts Book, was founded in 1901 to provide arts educators with a periodical that supported arts curriculum development. Gilbert Gates Davis, already an established printer in Worcester, was approached by members of the Worcester Applied Arts Guild to contribute to the project. Davis, believing wholeheartedly in their mission, established the publishing arm of his business to support publication of the magazine. Lemos took over as editor-in-chief of the magazine in 1919 and stayed in the position until 1950. Under Lemos’ influence, Davis Publications expanded their publication of resource books, many written by Lemos himself. Davis Publications has published SchoolArts Magazine continuously since 1901, currently producing 10 issues a year. The firm has also stayed in the Davis family for five generations, currently helmed by Julian Davis, Gilbert’s great-great-grandson. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Artist's Scrap Book #Pedro J. Lemos #Pedro de Lemos #SchoolArts Magazine #Davis Press #Davis Publications #Gilbert Davis #Gilbert Gates Davis #Julian Davis #The Applied Arts Book #Worcester Applied Arts Guild #Curtis Publishing Company #Applied Arts #Decorative Art #Decorative Arts #arts & crafts #Arts & Crafts Movement #Decorative Plates #olivia

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No Friend of the Empire by Kent Davis

#Critical Role #Wildemount #Mighty Nein #Fantasy #Art #Kent Davis #Darrington Press

[davy-zeppeli]

me and my friends when we see a cool bug on the ground so we open the camera app to take a photo but it loads up the front camera

#i fucking. love this photo. #every photo from this press conference is good #the monkees #peter tork #michael nesmith #micky dolenz #davy jones

[lisamarie-vee]

#ray davies #the kinks #trouser press #1970s #b&w #rock and roll hall of fame

[garadinervi]

Non-Vicious Circle. Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire, Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Gregson Davis, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1984

#graphic design #poetry #book #cover #book cover #aimé césaire #gregson davis #stanford university press #1980s

[notwithaste]

oh they’re leaving money on the table by not releasing the full version of this

#one minute six seconds of eargasm #full duet please #i cannot keep pressing replay on this #i need the repeat one option #miss fisher's murder mysteries #phrack #phryne x jack #phryne fisher #detective inspector jack robinson #let’s misbehave #dead air #essie davis #nathan page

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#garfield #jim davis #daily comic strip #newspaper comics #comic strip #universal press syndicate #random house #poll

[nodynasty4us]

From the November 20, 2023 article:

[Mike] Davis heads Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-funded $20 million plan to gut the executive branch and install only Trump loyalists at every level and in every building.

...

“He’s the man many in Trump’s inner circle including his own son Don Jr. and Steve Bannon are pitching to be the country’s next possible Attorney General. Earlier this week over on my Peacock show,” [MSNBC’s Medhi] Hasan explained, “I dove deep into the conservative lawyer’s record from Davis’ threats to send journalists to the ‘DC Gulag.’ He has repeatedly called on social media for his followers to quote ‘arm up against the violent Black underclass,’ and it appears I may have struck a nerve.”

“Davis has since responded to my monologue from earlier this week, pledging to indict me when he’s AG for what I’m not sure but he’s also threatened to send me to the DC Gulag.”

#mike davis #authoritarianism #attorney general #freedom of the press #racism #featured

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Lloyd Davies - Cult and Countercult - Access Press - 1984 (cover design from a painting by Bill Nicholson)

#witches #cultists #occult #vintage #cult and countercult #cult #countercult #access press #lloyd davies #bill nicholson #1984

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Staff Pick of the Week!

English poet and illustrator Charles Tomlinson (d. 2015) was born in 1927 to an idyllic and musing environment. Growing up in Stoke-on-Trent and travelling outside the city on the weekends to fish in undisturbed landscapes planted seeds of inspiration for Tomlinson’s future poetry and ability to evoke the feelings of a place.

After studying English Literature under Donald Davie (1922-1995) at Queens’ College, Tomlinson went on to enjoy a thirty-six-year teaching career at Bristol University and publish over thirty works of poetry. His poetry has been described as inhabiting the space between philosophy and natural landscapes and was internationally recognized with awards including the 1968 Frank O’Hara Prize, the 1993 Bennett Award, and the 2002 Criterion Poetry Prize. 

In the throes of a high-quality lake effect fog that elicits an homage to Tomlinson's delightful line "baffled by the choreography of the season..." from Autumn Piece, I'm sharing a collection of his poetry and images, aptly titled Words and Images. Published and printed in a limited edition by the Covent Garden Press Ltd in 1972, Words and Images is a collection of eleven poems accompanied by black and white graphics. It is noted that this is the first publishing in book form of graphics by Tomlinson, and that “the pictures are not illustrations of texts, but texts themselves which explore by visual means a world of light, space and density.” 

View other staff picks here!

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

#Staff Pick of the Week #Staff Picks #charles tomlinson #donald davie #words and images #covent garden press ltd #poetry #graphics

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The Road to Traveler Con by Kent Davis

#Critical Role #Mighty Nein #Traveler Con #Jester Lavorre #Fantasy #Art #Landscape #Kent Davis #Darrington Press

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#the kinks #ray davies #trouser press #love this pic

[geekynerfherder]

'Back To The Future' by Rich Davies.

Officially licensed A2 (16.5" x 23.4") fine art pigment prints on 250gm Naturalis Absolute White Matt archival paper, in numbered limited editions of 2000 for £29.99 each, and £85.99 for the 3 print set.

On sale Thursday August 10 at 6pm UK through Vice Press.

#Art #Rich Davies #Back To The Future #Vice Press #poster #print

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #trouser press #1970s #ray davies #the kinks #b&w #rock and roll hall of fame

[garadinervi]

Rochelle A. Davis, Palestinian Village Histories. Geographies of the Displaced, «Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures», Stanford University Press, Redwood City, CA, (2010-)2011

#graphic design #anthropology #book #cover #book cover #rochelle a. davis #stanford university press #2010s

[arabella-strange]

Zephrah-bound [all images by (c) Kent Davis {check store}, whose images have been used by Darrington Press including for the Tal'dorei Campaign Guide (2021)]

#ZEPHRAH #LET'S GO TO THERE #ugh we love it #critical role #Tal'dorei #the air ashari #keyleth #the summit peaks #kent davis #art #darrington press #tlovm #sorta #ashari #cherry trees #mountains #airbenders are so swish #hehehe #but also i cry when i think of zephrah too much so #let's just #sigh #landscapes #animation #fantasy #exandria #i want to go to there