Paper - Modigliani

Book Jackets: Oil pastel, gouache, pencil on brown paper sacks. The sides are folded to fit standard softcover (not paperback) book. Character depictions are based on work by Modigliani. In most instances the first sentences of the books are featured. Click on image for larger view.

Suitable for framing, $165. 


 The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories
The Veritable Ralph Salisbury
Character: Jack
"My brother Jack a year older than me and big for his age and fair-skinned, guess who had the say about Who would be What when - scarcely aware of family graves near our house - we played cowboy and Indian."
 Sophie Scholl
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes."
The Razor's Edge
 Somerset Maughm
Character: Sophie MacDonald
"I have never begun a novel with more misgiving."

Tracks
Louise Erdrich
Character: The Native American women
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall."

 
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
Character: One of the white women
"They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

 
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Character: One of the handmaids
"We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

 
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Character: Stingo
"In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn."
 
The Virgin Suicides 
Jeffrey Eugenides
"Obviously, doctor, you've never been a thirteen year old girl."
Character: Cecilia

 Paradise
Toni Morrison
Character: One of the white girls