Rouge-gorge

58971 — Robin Price b. 1962 Denton TX began printing in Claremont CA under the Lavender Armadillo Press imprint in 1984 and later under Robin Price Printer & Publisher. Since 1995 her press has been located in Middletown CT. In 1984 RP received her BA from Pomona College and in 1987-88 worked with the book artist Susan King at her Paradise Press in West Los Angeles. She bought her first press in 1988 and worked as the Assistant to the Master Printer Gerald Lange at the University of Southern California's Fine Arts Press. In 1992 she began printing for herself full-time. Her fine press editions broadsides and unique work have been collected and exhibited nationally and internationally and she has received numerous awards and honors. This archive represents a life-time's work by one of the world's finest printers and book artists. It is meticulously preserved in a tidy and orderly manner and while not catalogued each piece is duly identified and/or categorized. In it are all RP's extant correspondence sales records business papers and financial records as well as personal and family correspondence together with a complete collection of her published work together with the corresponding production materials. Also included are her extensive journals diaries photographs etc. Virtually every book broadside chapbook etc. as listed in Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists' Books as curated by Suzy Taraba Wesleyan University Press 2010 162 items is present in the archive. Robin notes that she always saved the best copy for herself. Unique books already purchased installations and the like are obviously not included. Also present are virtually all the production materials for each of the above: proofs trials 3-dimensional prototypes layouts original drawings mock-ups woodblocks plates editorial research materials related correspondence etc. unknown