Very fine copy in wraps with some light shelf wear, clean with no markings, second edition.<\/p>\n
A collection of personal stamps from countries invented by the artist, his miniature art reproductions done to scale. <\/p>\n
The remarkable American miniature stamp watercolorist Donald Evans was a nomadic traveloguer of a wholly fictional yet unquestionably lush global community. Evan\u2019s imaginative stamp paintings began in his youth when he was a novice stamp collector. As an adult world traveller he continued to innovate beautifully executed whimsical stamps.<\/p>\n
In 1975, he told the Paris Review, \u201cIt was vicarious traveling for me to a made-up world that I liked better than the one I was in. I\u2019m doing that now, too. No catastrophes occur. There are no generals or battles or warplanes on my stamps. The countries are innocent, peaceful, composed. Sometimes I get so concentrated in these worlds I get confused. \u2026 It\u2019s hard to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n
But in the end, a catastrophe impinged after all. On April 29, 1977, the Amsterdam apartment house where Evans lived caught fire. He died at 31, a stone\u2019s throw from his beloved windmills and dykes.<\/p>\n
His life was like one of his own miniature works of art: a dreamscape incorporating the banana trees, shells and bird eggs he treasured, framed by a border of banged-out black dots, painstakingly, lovingly worked out with a Grumbacher number two brush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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