RICHARD FLAVIN

Pen-and-ink drawing [Japan, ca.1979].

When Timothy Barrett was in Japan, he met the artist Richard Flavin, who had studied advertising art and graphic design in America, then woodblock printing in Tokyo. Flavin's illustrations were printed by Henry Morris' Bird & Bull Press in Barrett's Nagashizuki: The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking the drawing shown here appears opposite the opening of the chapter on "The Craft in Japan: Past, Contemporarby, and Future."

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