Block Prints: How To Make Them

A vintage reissue for the modern crafter

Now back in print after a long absence, Block Prints: How To Make Them is an eminently readable guide that remains as functional as the day it was made. Written for the novice, Rice's every instruction is provided with a dose of steadying encouragement. The modern crafter or art student will find useful guidance in the contributions of Martin Krause, author of this new edition's introduction. His footnotes added throughout provide context to the original edition, translate terminology that might be unfamiliar, and provide updates where needed. As Rice wrote in his preface, this book "is offered with the sincere hope that it may prove both instructive and encouraging to those who are seriously interested in this most absorbing handicraft."

William S. Rice was one of the most gifted block print artists of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Also a watercolorist, teacher, and avid outdoorsman, he found inspiration in nature and created humble yet stunning images. His active and prolific career extended to the age of ninety.

Martin Krause served for thirty-nine years as curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. Krause is coauthor of Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art and editor of the Pomegranate books The Autobiography of Gustave Baumann (2015) and Gustave Baumann: Views of Brown County (2018). His other wide-ranging publications devoted to the history of the graphic arts include monographs on J. M. W. Turner, Robert Indiana, and Garo Antreasian.