Oddballs Contributor(s): Westergard, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889843899 ISBN-13: 9780889843899 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Reference | Curiosities & Wonders - Art | Canadian |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (0.40 lbs) 104 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
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Publisher Description: Oddballs is wood engraver Jim Westergard's collection of forty portraits and brief biographical sketches of historical figures who gained fame-or notoriety-through curious behavior and circumstance. |
Contributor Bio(s): Westergard, Jim: - Jim Westergard was born in Ogden, Utah in 1939. He was educated at a variety of colleges and universities in California, Arizona and Utah where he completed his BFA and MFA at Utah State. Westergard taught at Metropolitan State College and Northern Illinois University before moving to Alberta in 1975, where he taught at Red Deer College until his retirement in 1999. He became a Canadian citizen in 1980. Jim Westergard has been creating prints from wood engravings since university days in the late 60s, but had never completed a book-length collection until the original limited letterpress edition of Mother Goose Eggs. The first engraving for this project was finished in 1999. Then, after a four-year struggle which included an unexpected hernia operation and reprinting the press-sheets a second time with helpful hints from Crispin Elsted of the Barbarian Press (Mission, BC), Mother Goose Eggs was finally bound and released in a deluxe edition of eighty copies in 2003. |