Oak Knoll

Private printed in an edition of 20 numbered copies signed by Edward Hutchins (Hutchins, p22-23). A fine copy in fine box. A silk-screened parchment scroll that unwinds and retracts from the torso of a painted papier-mache rabbit, which tells the tale of a city invaded by rabbits.

"These papier-mache rabbits, each containing a screen-printed scroll, eschewed conventions of fine binding and printmaking at a time when editioned artists' books were largely produced within the province of craft and industrial processes (evolving from private press tradition or commercial offset printing technologies). Hutchins exploration of alternative methods of reproduction . . . including rubberstamping, photocopying, simple relief printing and silkscreen . . . have continued to combine with the playful sensibility and structural variability that define his work"--Minnesota Center for the Book Arts catalog, 2003.