Wood Engraving Wednesday
Michael McCurdy
Michael McCurdy (1942-2016) was an illustrator, author, publisher, master wood engraver, and founder of Penmaen Press in 1968. Deeply inspired in his youth by the engravings of Lynn Ward, McCurdy made his first wood engraving in 1963 while attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He went on to earn both his BFA and MFA at Tufts University and became a celebrated engraver and fine press printer.
Shown here are two of McCurdy's wood engravings printed by the legendary Harry Duncan (1916-1997) in the 1982 edition of American poet and Zen practitioner Susan Efird's narrative poem The Eye of Heaven printed at Abattoir Editions, the fine press of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, in an edition of 150 copies. Our copy is yet another donation from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025).
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