Rebecca Goodale ~ Maine

Night Neighborhood
By Rebecca Goodale
1999. Edition of 2.

11.5 x 10" star book with silkscreen prints and ink on paper.
$650

Library Books
By Rebecca Goodale
1998. One-of-a-Kind.

10.5 x 11", unique tunnel book using ink and collage on paper.
$450

Black Birds
By Rebecca Goodale
1995. Edition of 12.

A hand colored silkscreen flutter book with red ribbon.

This book was inspired by Ravens in Stika, Alaska who were excited by a spilled bag of popcorn in front of the local Woolworth's store.
$225 (Last copy)

Pleasant Pond
By Rebecca Goodale
1992. One-of-a-Kind.

Mixed media book with handmade paper by the artist. Handsewn stitchery design by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale trained as a fiber designer as well as a weaver. Her love of color, texture and thread come through in these lovely pages of blue and yellow.
$950

He Talks in Circles, He Talks in Squares
By Rebecca Goodale
1997. One of a kind.

22 x 30" banner book with hand colored screen print.

Goodale had created a similar banner book entitled "She Talks in Circles, He Listens in Squares" to illustrate the difficulties heterosexual couples have in communicating. A homosexual male couple, good friends of Goodale, complained of feeling slighted. Hence, she created this book to recognize the difficulties that homosexual couples have in communicating.
$750

She Talks in Circles, He Talks in Squares
By Rebecca Goodale
1997. One of a kind.

22 x 30" banner book with hand colored screen print.

Goodale created this banner book to illustrate the difficulties heterosexual couples have in communicating.
$750

Carlsbad Cavern
By Rebecca Goodale
1991. One-of-a-Kind.

13.3 x 10" tunnel book. Ink on paper.

Another of Goodale's books resulting from a stay in the American Southwest. What more appropriate way to remember the network of underground caves in southeastern New Mexico? In Goodale's hands, the caverns are in motion, alive, the cavern walls and stalactites waft in unseen breezes — alluring but sinister.
$950

Miniature in the Threatened and Endangered Species Series: Alpine Plants

New England Cottontail
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2007. Edition of 8.

9" diameter paper discs printed on both sides; 12 unbound leaves. Housed in 10 x 10 x 2" black cloth-covered box.

The latest in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species series concerns the New England Cottontail. In 2007, the state of Maine added the New England Cottontail to its Endangered Species List. Goodale lists loss of contiguous habitat, highway deaths, and pollution as three major reasons for their decline.

Rebecca Goodale: "It is a circle book, a little like an Alexander Calder mobile, discs that are printed 2 sided with imagery about a rare rabbit and all of its struggles with the human altered environment. This piece will be in an exhibit at the Portland (ME) Museum of Art this spring [of 2008]."
$1250

Summer Grape
By Rebecca Goodale
2006. Edition of 10.

5.5 x 15.5" closed, extends to 55". Silkscreen printed using a screen with wax resist. Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, maroon cloth covered case.

Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series, a book of a flowing tangle of grapes.
$750

Summer Grape
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: 2006. Edition of 4.

5.5 x 15.5" closed, extends to 55". Silk-screen (black-and-white with some gray). Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, black-and-brown weave cloth covered case.

Another in Goodale’s Threatened and Endangered Series. This black-and-white rendition of Summer Grape is the original version. Goodale used this as the prototype for the colored version, later published in an edition of 10.

Rebecca Goodale: "I used wax crayons directly on the mesh of the silkscreen to create the matrix. It has an almost batik or woodblock-like texture."
$1000

Grammanoides 3
By Rebecca Goodale
2005.

Set of three books in a 9 x 9" cloth covered box. Each book with the same edition number.

Three books from Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species make up this set: Five Maine Rushes, Fifteen Maine Grasses, Cyperaceae. Rushes is an accordion with ink on paper with cutouts. Grasses uses a compound binding with mixed media prints. Cyperaceae consists of hand colored gelatin prints in an accordion book.
$1,750

Lynx and Bobcat
By Rebecca Goodale
2005. Edition of 8.

Four inch magic cube with hand colored silkscreen prints which are mounted on cherry blocks. Housed in cloth bound box.

This shifting group of hinged blocks shows bobcat, lynx, and hybrids while the text explains how their overlapping territory has led to interspecies mating. Another in Goodale's Threatened & Endangered series.
$1,450

Salix
By Rebecca Goodale
2005. Edition of 6.

16 x 7" closed. Silkscreen printed compound flag book with hinged covers. Linen ties on both cloth boards allow the book to be hung in space. Three rows of flags spread across. The names of the willows are in alphabetical order by Latin names.

The latest in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series, Salix is designed to hang in space like the flowing branches of a willow tree. Leaves from rare willow trees are printed on the flag pages. The eight willow trees represented are Arctic; Silverleaf; Hoary; Dwarf; Sandbar; Blue-leaf; Tea-leaved; and, Bearberry.

Rebecca Goodale comments on the making of Salix:
"Inside the front covers on the same side of the book you will see Latin and then the common names on the other end's paste down. For instance Salix interior is Sandbar willow. A botanist might recognize the leaves and be able to guess which are from which tree. The leaves of the 8 different willows are printed on the flags, however I have not given any key ,as to which species is represented by which leaf. My intention was less didactic and more poetic. I wanted the rustling of the leaves (flags) and the drape of the book to echo the image of a willow tree. So you might say my approach was more sculptural."
$1,250

Vernal Pool II
By Rebecca Goodale
2005. Edition of 10.

12.5" closed; 19.5" extended theater book in 12.5 x 9" tyvek envelope. Slider illustrations hand colored silkscreen prints.

Vernal pools are small wet areas in the springtime. In Maine, they are the breeding habitat for four species. One of these is the blue salamander. By the time summer arrives the eggs have hatched and the pools have evaporated. This lovely artist rendering of the pools slides away to reveal the mating salamanders. Another in the Threatened and Endangered series.

Goodale originally editioned this book in 2002 but it was so popular that she has editioned a second one with brighter colors. $250

Butler Sanctuary
By Rebecca Goodale
2004. Edition of 5.

12 x 15.5" double accordion in green cloth boards. Hand colored silkscreen prints with cutouts.

A beautiful rendering of a rare Maine rhododendron. Its growth area is at the northern most range in southern Maine. It grows in a five acre tangle under the shade of birch and beech trees. The lovely blooms begin in late July.
$1,250 (Last copy)

Fishing/Mating
By Rebecca Goodale
2004. Edition of 5.

A dos-a-dos binding with cut paper and ink mounted on paste papers.

During the mating season the Least Tern male will woo his mate with his fishing abilities. The female is given a fish each time they mate. The male spends his days perpetually fishing and mating.
$850 (Two copies remaining in the edition)

Five Maine Rushes
By Rebecca Goodale
2004. Edition of 10.

6 x 8.5" closed. Accordion book construction with two stitched sections. Ink on paper with cutouts. Front cover bound in woven Japanese grass paper.

Five rare Junacae in Maine are the subject of this Threatened and Endangered Species book (Alpine rush; Slender rush; Vassey rush; Northern wood rush; Spiked wood-rush). The pale ink on paper imitates the color and value of the cast shadows produced by he cutaways.
$650

April/July: Two Maine Moths
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.

9 x 8.5" hand-colored prints with collage in magic wallet binding with wraparound case.

This book focuses on two threatened Maine moths that share a common habitat but mature in different months. Goodale uses a magic wallet form which unites the twilight moth, April, and zanclognatha, July, in a pitch pine / scrub oak barren setting. Using this format restricts the viewer to see both moths simultaneously but these two species are adults in different seasons so one would not see them in the same view.
$350

Beach Plum
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.

5.5 x 11" with hand colored silkscreen prints. Two section binding with French folds and Japanese lace paper.

Goodale captures state wildlife in the form of two little birds perched on a branch with flowers blooming all about them.
$550

Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.

10.5 x 9 x 4.25" Set of three rotating rings. Each ring in its own box. Rings are hand colored silkscreen prints with collage.

Goodale uses different structures and presentations to make points about Maine's threatened and endangered species. In this creation she accompanies images with sound. Each ring is a flexagon which can be twisted and at the same time make noise. The sounds grow fainter as the species decline in number. Endangered makes the most noise with the black racer, ringed boghaunter, roseate, least and black terns as well as the tall white violet. The Extirpated ring sound is fainter with images of the walrus, grey wolf, wolverine, and caribou. When one tries to twist sound from Extinct there is ominous silence as the rotating ring displays pigeon, great auk, sea mink, and Labrador duck.
$1,450

Lynx
By Rebecca Goodale
2003. Edition of 10.

19 x 12", two section french fold cloth bound book with hand colored silkscreen prints.

To capture this animal listed on Maine's Threatened and Endangered Species list, Goodale visited the zoo where there were three little Lynx kittens. To be sure she captured their actual size on the pages she made puppets. From these she created "stencils" of the kittens in different playful positions.

Docherty says in "Invitation to Wonder" that "Lynx, shows three big-pawed kittens playing insouciantly. Such signs of regeneration co-exist painfully with references to the "threatened" and endangered" statuses that permeate Goodale's imagery. Together they suggest that it is late, but perhaps not yet too late, to intervene on behalf of species that are doing what they can to survive."
$1050

Eggs
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.

6 x 4.25 x 1.5" An accordion book using mixed media of archival ink jet prints and ink on paper.

Fifteen birds' eggs are arranged by size. Each cutout is the actual size of the egg and the egg patterns are typical for that species. While generally in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species documents those that are disappearing this book points the reader to think of continuation and hope with the promise of new life under the delicate shell.
$450 (Two copies remaining in the edition)

Fifteen Maine Birds
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.

11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage.

This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

"In Fifteen Maine Birds, Goodale carries the ornithological interest of her predecessors forward in a comparatively abstract way. She simplifies and flattens her depictions of threatened and endangered birds and sets them against colorful backgrounds. The grasshopper sparrow, American pipit, and upland sandpiper appear together on a two-page spread. Squares of purple, orange, and green separate the individual species and unite the ensemble in a vibrant secondary color scheme. Touches of collage and the relative poses of the birds also hold the pages together compositionally. The threatened upland sandpiper looks back at the endangered, and more static, grasshopper sparrow and American pipit while striding in the opposite direction. Such iconographically thought-provoking arrangements underscore Goodale's environmental concerns." (Invitation to Wonder by Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College)
$1,250

Fifteen Maine Grasses
By Rebecca Goodale
2002. Edition of 10.

8.5 x 8.5" with compound binding. Mixed media prints with hand lettering.

Another of Goodale's books in the Threatened & Endangered series. Each in this series uses different structures and approaches to convey information with text and image. In this book Goodale used Japanese grass paper to cover the boards. Using this material allows the reader to have a tactile experience as well as a visual one with the subject of the book.
$550

Maine Mussels in Freshwater
By Rebecca Goodale
2001. Edition of 10.

12 x 8". Hand colored silkscreen prints on handmade paper. Two section binding in flat backed case.

Comments from Docherty in "Invitation to Wonder": "Goodale focuses on species behavior that is ingenious if not intentional. When their population density dwindles, some of these mollusks become hermaphrodites, thereby maintaining their reproductive capability. The larvae live as parasites on unknown host fish, adding further mystery to their survival. "
$950

Twenty Maine Sedges
By Rebecca Goodale
2001. Edition of 10.

5 x 8.5" banner book with hand colored silkscreen prints and collage.

Goodale uses the banner book structure for bringing attention to this plant that is on Maine's Threatened & Endangered list. She lists the individual species' names alphabetically under the name of the genus Carex. To bring the plant alive on the page she uses vigorous calligraphic strokes and bold design.
$350 (Last Copy)