A101. John Muir Trail
Title
A101. John Muir Trail
Creator
Thomas, Peter and Donna
Description
66.5 x 54 mm (2 5/8” x 2 1/8”), 62-page accordion, 40 copies.
Binding: Case-bound fold out accordion; full-bound in grey speckled paper over boards. Paper: Ivory, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Digital. Typography: Reproduction of text handwritten by Donna Thomas. Illustration: Reproductions of twenty-eight watercolor paintings by Donna Thomas. Notes: Illustrations painted on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
“Around this same time I began taking extended summer backpack trips in the Sierra Nevada. I always carried a compact watercolor set with, and on my 2000 twenty-eight day backpacking trip along the John Muir Trail I painted a miniature landscape each day, then used those paintings to make this book. The paper is a duplex sheet, white for the printed side so the illustrations would reproduce accurately and blue on the back, representing all the sky there is out in the wilderness. The original paintings were divided by day into 6 groups and made into one-of-a-kind books, each bound in leather with an artifact I found on the trail inset into the cover.” – Donna
Binding: Case-bound fold out accordion; full-bound in grey speckled paper over boards. Paper: Ivory, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Digital. Typography: Reproduction of text handwritten by Donna Thomas. Illustration: Reproductions of twenty-eight watercolor paintings by Donna Thomas. Notes: Illustrations painted on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
“Around this same time I began taking extended summer backpack trips in the Sierra Nevada. I always carried a compact watercolor set with, and on my 2000 twenty-eight day backpacking trip along the John Muir Trail I painted a miniature landscape each day, then used those paintings to make this book. The paper is a duplex sheet, white for the printed side so the illustrations would reproduce accurately and blue on the back, representing all the sky there is out in the wilderness. The original paintings were divided by day into 6 groups and made into one-of-a-kind books, each bound in leather with an artifact I found on the trail inset into the cover.” – Donna
Publisher
Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas
Date
2000
Language
English
Files
Collection
Appears in Exhibits
Citation
Thomas, Peter and Donna, “A101. John Muir Trail,” Digital Exhibits - UWM Libraries Special Collections, accessed November 17, 2024, https://web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-spc2/items/show/559.