Image: Bookshelf 43; MM/CE, Oakland, California by Jane Mount

The one and only Jane Mount, star of 20x200, Summer Reading artist, and also part of the JBP team, is featured by Monica Racic on The New Yorker blog today. Congrats, Jane!

Racic describes Jane's Ideal Bookshelf project, which has her imagining other people's favorite books. This is a continuation of a previous project, where she documented bookshelves in other people's homes.

Racic writes of Jane,

Capturing the personality of a book-owner is part of what drew Mount to her subject matter. “I often meet people and want to paint their books.” she said over e-mail last week. “And people will commission me to paint theirs or a friend’s shelf of books, which I love doing, because it’s a way of peeking into their lives.” Such commissions have included a shelf containing the books used to write a dissertation on twentieth-century English novels.

Ideal Bookshelf 1, JMM by Jane Mount

Jane writes of her own ideal bookshelf, pictured above and available on 20x200 for $50 and $200, "This set happens to be a grouping of my favorite children's books; I’ve been more influenced by books I read as a kid than books from any other time in my life."

Click over to The New Yorker Blog to read the full post and stop on over at the gallery through August 22nd to see Jane's bookshelves in person.