June Evening Program
Are you curious to see what your fellow Caxtonians collect? Club members will open their libraries to share a favorite book or other piece from their collection for an information evening of on-line bibliomania.
This is a great way to meet fellow Caxtonians and learn more about them and their collections! We are hoping this will become a regular event.
The presenters will be:
Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History and Art History, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago. A specialist on the history of collecting, museums, World’s Fairs, and the built landscape, he is the author of numerous books and articles. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Getty Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received numerous other awards. Most importantly, he has been a member of the Caxton Club for more than 35 years and he is a devoted book collector, particularly of illustrated books published between the two World Wars.
Marc Joseph is semi-retired from the Wine & Spirit trade, now working several days a week as a manager at a fine wine and spirit shop in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. A new member of the Caxton Club, his book collecting interests are concentrated in two primary areas: Fine and Private Presses from the late 19th century to the current day, with an emphasis on the period of the 1890s to the late 1940s; and Books on Books, with an emphasis on the fine printers of the golden age of letterpress printing. Of course, like most collectors there are a few other interests, like Science Fiction and Wine & Spirits.
Susan F. Rossen has been a Caxtonian for over four decades, serving as chair of the Publications and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Outreach committees. She was publisher at the Detroit Institute of Arts until 1981, and then at the Art Institute of Chicago until her retirement in 2009. She collects books from around the world for adults that are illustrated mainly with woodcuts and wood-engravings and that date from the 1920s into the early 1950s.
Diane Stilwell Weinberg, a former actress, is now a teacher and a collector of beautiful books. She prefers that the subject as well as the binding might come in a lovely form. Some examples of her collecting interests include: artists books, miniatures, fore-edge and 19th-century Asian adventure travel books.
Zoom begins at 6:30 pm CT / 7:30 pm ET. Registration required via website. Program is open to Caxton Club members.
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