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Exploring the inspiration of great writers on contemporary artists, this exhibition features a selection of recent Limited Edition Club publications, including Willem de Kooning鈥檚 Seventeen Lithographs for Frank O鈥橦ara (1988); Robert Motherwell鈥檚 lithographs for the Octavio Paz Suite (1988); Sean Scully鈥檚 color intaglios accompanying excerpts from Joseph Conrad鈥檚 Heart of Darkness (1992); Balthus鈥檚 illustrations for Emily Bront毛鈥檚 Wuthering Heights (1994); Edward Ranney鈥檚 photogravures for Heights of Machu Picchu (1999); Dean Mitchell鈥檚 colored etchings inspired by jazz (2003); and photogravures by Duane Michals inspired by the poetry of Constantine P. Cavafy (2003). Today, when the internet makes a book鈥檚 entire text readily available, it is a luxury to experience an elegantly produced book, one with pages of handmade paper imprinted with words set in beautiful typography and enhanced by an artist鈥檚 original prints. The New York-based Limited Editions Club, which was founded in 1929, is still one of America鈥檚 finest publishers of artist-illustrated limited edition books. In 2007, Sidney Shiff, who has headed Limited Editions Club since 1978, donated a group of contemporary Limited Editions Club exhibition portfolios to the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in honor of his longtime friend Ralph W. Voorhees, who is also a great friend to this museum and Rutgers University. This exhibition, which was organized by Marilyn Symmes, Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts and Curator of Prints and Drawings, presents a selection of prints and photogravures from this wonderful gift, complemented by an important loan of Limited Editions Club books illustrated by Leonard Baskin, Fritz Eichenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Motherwell from the Special Collections of Rutgers University Libraries.