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LUCIENNE BLOCH

PRINTS & ENGRAVED BLOCKS

The Department of Special & Area Studies at the University of Florida holds a Joseph Ishill and Oriole Press collection of manuscripts, archives, and approximately 700 blocks. They range from original wood-engraved blocks from the 19th century to magnesium and copper cuts and to engraved blocks done by contemporary artists. Part of the collection consists of blocks cut by Lucienne Bloch. Most were used in the printing of Free Vistas, Oriole Press, 1933. Some have no record of ever having been printed by Ishill. Several of the blocks have been cut on both sides. Most have titles and Lucienne Bloch's name written on them. Curiously, there is no correspondence between Bloch and Ishill either here or in the Ishill manuscript collection at Harvard University.

The arrangement below gives the thumbnail linked to a larger image, the page number in Free Vistas on which it appears, a transcription of any writing that appears on the block, and the size in millimeters of the block. If the image is of a cut done on the back of block, it will be labeled "verso."

For more information on Lucienne Bloch, please go to The Artwork of Lucienne Bloch. A related collection at the University of Florida is the Robert Strassburg Collection of Ernest Bloch.


Florence Free Vistas p. 94
"Florence"
19 x 45 mm.
Florence
Brittany Free Vistas p. 131
"Brittany"
19 x 45 mm.
Brittany
Alps Free Vistas p. 135
"Alps Luce Bloch"
29 x 40 mm.
In Novmeber 1974, Lucienne Bloch was at the University of Florida and made a re-impression of this block and signed the print.
Alps
Alps
Study Free Vistas p. 192
"Luce Bloch"
74 x 75 mm.
The block has another cut on the verso.
Study Verso
Verso
Study
New York Free Vistas p. 204
"New York"
20 x 45 mm.
New York
Canada Free Vistas p. 205
"Canada"
19 x 45 mm.
Canada

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch

Free Vistas p. 210
"Ernest Bloch Luce Bloch"
119 x 89 mm.
In Novmeber 1974, Lucienne Bloch was at the University of Florida and made a re-impression of this block and signed the print.
The block has another cut on verso.

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch verso
Verso

Reveredo Free Vistas p. 367
"Reveredo"
56 x 54 mm.
Reveredo
New Year
"Luce Bloch"
36 x 54 mm.
Winter
"Winter Luce Bloch"
74 x 105 mm.
Tree
"Tree Luce Bloch"
77 x 103 mm.
Dutch Village
"Dutch Village Luce Bloch"
119 x 149 mm.
Parisian Workers "Parisian Workers L Bloch"
75 x 129 mm.
The block has another cut on verso.
Parisian Workers verso
Verso


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