Brian D. Cohen
Prints & Paintings
Ordering Bridge Press Books
Please contact Brian D. Cohen to arrange purchase of books and cards.
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Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective
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Bestiary: A Book of Animal Poems & Prints
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Beethoven Heads: Variations on Variations
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Hospital Drawings
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Emblems
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The Bird Book
Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective
Brian D. Cohen: Retrospective surveys the artist's 35 years as a printmaker and painter, reproducing about 200 selected prints and paintings, with essays by the artist, Helen Whybrow, Deborah Lee Luskin, and an interview with Dr. Sura Levine, Professor Emerita of Art History at Hampshire College.
The book, 9.5” vertical x 10.6” horizontal, is available in either a signed, limited edition hardbound edition
($75 plus shipping) or softbound edition ($55 plus shipping). It was designed by Irene Stapleford and printed in Barcelona, Spain, by fine art printers SYL L'Art Gràfic.
Contact Brian D. Cohen to pre-order your Retrospective book (please specify hardbound or paperbound).
Bestiary: A Book of Animal Poems and Prints
Brian D. Cohen and his close friend and longtime collaborator, Chard deNiord, former Poet Laureate of the State of Vermont, have published a collaborative book project comprising over thirty poems and prints about a range of animals. The collaboration captures the integrity of the animals' wildness, beauty, and beatitude with the awareness that every creature in some unique, inimitable way is stranger and more mysterious than what we could ever imagine.
Carolyn Forché has written a foreword to the book. Bestiary was designed by Marjorie Merena and printed by Villanti Press of Milton, Vermont in an edition of 500 signed and numbered hardbound copies. The book is 7 ½” vertical x 10" horizontal, and is available for $55 plus shipping & handling.
Contact Brian D. Cohen to order your Bestiary book (hardbound only).
The Beethoven Heads: Variations on Variations
The Beethoven Heads: Variations on Variations is a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. The book reproduces 15 drawings of Beethoven by Brian D. Cohen, along with an essay by the artist about the challenges of depicting Beethoven’s image.
The book is 35 pages and measures 6 x 6". It was designed by the artist in May of 2022, printed by Mixbook Photo Co., and is available for $30 plus shipping.
Contact Brian D. Cohen to purchase your Beethoven Heads book.
Emblems
Emblems is a 40-page booklet of 25 images by artist Brian D. Cohen accompanied by essays by poet Chard deNiord, by Renaissance scholar Nancy Eddy, and by the artist. The etchings are reproduced at original size in high-resolution duotone by Puritan Press.
The edition was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for small presses, and is limited to 200 copies, signed by the artist. $35 plus shipping.
Contact Brian D. Cohen to purchase your Emblems book.
Hospital Drawings
In 2020 Brian was hospitalized for 100 days, or more than a quarter of the year. He spent many hours of these days in his chair drawing, starting with death masks, moving on to self-portraits, then copying heads from the paintings and drawings of the artists he has admired throughout his life; Rembrandt, Velasquez, Manet, Kollwitz, Cézanne, Hopper, Rivera -- portraits of their friends, family, neighbors, and their sitters, and their own faces. The book measures 6 x 6" and comprises 48 pages, including a brief essay by the artist. The text is set in Mrs Eaves, a variant of Baskerville designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996. The book was designed by the artist with Mixbook software and printed by Mixbook Photo Co.
Hospital Drawings is limited to 100 copies signed by the artist. $40 plus shipping.
Contact Brian D. Cohen to purchase your Hospital Drawings book.
