Tom Killion - California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History

Author Reception at 5:30pm in the Gallery!

California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Woodcut artist Tom Killion’s prints combine exquisite color with dynamic composition to portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations: storm tides crashing at Point Lobos, serene moonlit coves at Mendocino, fog encircling the Golden Gate Bridge. Deepening our experience are poetry and prose from Gary Snyder, as well as selections from Native Californian traditional stories, accounts of travelers, and poems by Robinson Jeffers, Robert Hass, and Jaime de Angulo.

Woodcut and letterpress artist Tom Killion grew up in Marin County, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais, where the rugged scenery inspired him from an early age to create landscape prints strongly influenced by traditional Japanese woodblock prints. Along with publishing fine art letterpress books, Killion holds a PhD in African history from Stanford University and has taught history at several Bay Area universities.

Location: 

51 Tamal Vista Blvd
Corte Madera, CA 94925
California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History By Tom Killion Cover Image
ISBN: 9781597142991
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Heyday Books - September 1st, 2015