• During the long winters in the country, Jocelyn Cohen and Nancy Poore spent a great deal of time leafing through seed catalogs, planning for their spring crops. Between the images in old catalogs and the scenes they saw every day, and with a letterpress at hand, Cohen could not resist making this print, as well as other small cards drawing upon old catalog art.

Cabbage print

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Letterpress print, 10” x 11½”, printed on acid free, Strathmore cover stock. To make the print, Cohen combined three engravings from old seed catalogs with two hand cut linoleum blocks.
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