Thursday Edition: Jane Mount + Original Art Giveaway
Ideal Bookshelf 5, TRE by Jane Mount8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)
Ideal Bookshelf 6, GW by Jane Mount
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)
Happy Thursday, our third day of Festivus at 20x200! It's Sara (it's Day One at PULSE Miami!*) with two new prints from Jane Mount: Ideal Bookshelf 5, TRE and Ideal Bookshelf 6, GW. Jen gave Jane a deservedly glowing introduction way back when we first started working with her and now, you can see all of the prints we've produced with Jane since, including the original works she created with Jason Polan.
Jane has offered to create a new original painting for one lucky collector, which brings us to today's 200-minute special:
One of the first twenty collectors to make an order of $200 or more by 6:35 p.m. EST (200 minutes** away!) will have his or her own ideal bookshelf painted by Jane.
**Newsletter readers get an hour jump!
From the first twenty to collect $200 (or more!) of art today, we'll randomly select one and Jane will turn her pencils, brush and palette onto his or her top tomes, just as she did in both of these bookshelves—the latest in a series that we rolled out in August. While that first shelf served to gather her favorite books from childhood, this time around she's put her paintbrush on the most cherished books of two friends, Tina Roth Eisenberg, mother, designer and blogger, and George Weld, a chef and restaurateur in Brooklyn.
In Ideal Bookshelf 5, TRE, Tina, aka swissmiss, collected her daughter's most sought-after reads. Among the allocations are a stash of Dr. Seusses, animal and alphabet tales, and the classic This is New York by Miroslav Sasek.
In Ideal Bookshelf 6, GW, Jane documented George's favorite cookbooks. A darn-good chef in his own right—I'll second Jane's notions about Egg—George's shelf reflects a hearty respect for those who came before him and continue to raise the gastronomic bar for restaurants across the country: the venerable Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, Marcus Samuelsson of NYC's Aquavit and Thomas Keller of French Laundry.
Now that you know a little more about the mysterious TRE and GW, you should be aptly prepared for an exclusive little easter egg hunt we've put together for you dear newsletter readers only: the first 20 people to answer both of the following questions correctly will get a $10 20x200 gift certificate:
1) Where is the farm that Egg sources their ham from?
2) What was the first 20x200 edition that swissmiss blogged about?
As always, email us at easteregg AT 20x200 DOT com with the correct answers as quickly as you can! We'll announce all the winners, including the taker-home of one of Jane's original works in tomorrow's newsletter, so stay tuned.
Jane's earlier sets of shelves, as shown in Bookshelf 20 and Bookshelf 29, offer no clue to the identity of the owners aside from the books themselves. The books here were painted as they were found, in-situ (ala Mickey Smith). The subjects of these paintings did not have the opportunity, as Tina and George did, to put their best face forward and curate their selections. If we are what we read, we might think that the owner of 29 has regularly drawn, doodled or diaried into dozens of Moleskines and 20 is a fan of great architecture and design but beyond that, our ability to read them as portraits is greatly influenced by our own relationships with the books that Jane found on their shelves. And as Jane points out, there is joy in finding things that you love among others' things, an instant kinship of sorts.
So, I have to say, if you know bookish types—parents, foodies kids- or cooks-at-heart, what better gift than a print that blends the things you both love? Good art and great books!
* Jen's still down south proudly presenting the work of Sarah McKenzie. Yesterday, we wrongly cited the body of work that JBG is showing as Site. Site is actually the title of Sarah's super popular edition—there's only one print left—based on the original that was exhibited in Worlds Away at the Walker Art Center. Apologies to you all for any confusion and huge apologies to Ms. McKenzie! Jen'll be back to share some beachy bliss with you tomorrow!
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