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Sun, Aug 25, 2024 02:00PM EDT
Lot 215

Peter and Donna Thomas, Cannery Row Book

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Peter and Donna Thomas, Cannery Row Book
Mixed Media

Peter R. Thomas
Donna (Millar) Thomas

'John Steinbeck's Cannery Row'

A book in a tin.
2in x 3 1/2in (5cm. x 9cm)

Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books.

Peter Thomas was born in 1954 in Los Angeles. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where he studied the book arts with William Everson at UCSC’s Lime Kiln Press and obtained a degree in Aesthetic Studies.

Donna (Millar) Thomas was born in 1957 in San Francisco. She attended Sonoma State University where she got her degree in Liberal Arts from the School of Expressive Arts with faculty that included the artist Jay DeFeo.

From the estate of a San Francisco Collector

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