Christmas Cards Past I

Each card on this page visually summarizes our lives' events in a year before 1987

1975 & 1977, London Years:

silkscreened & block-printed postcard of my street with a red mailbox & phone booth & a church & holly, & the lettering 'Christmas in Kensal Rise'. 1975 (42k) silkscreened & block-printed black backgrounded postcard of my street with a red mailbox & phone booth & a church, & the lettering 'Winter in Kensal Rise' in white. Variation (15k) A Gold Christmas Tree andgreeting in a computer-scannable font. 1977 (8k)

1979, Return to the New World:

Postcard of the townhouse on Tappan Street, the Fin Pub & Mass Go Assoc. logos, and reminders of bicycling, skiing, Red Sox & blood donations, printed on tan (38k)Postcard of the townhouse on Tappan Street, the Fin Pub & Mass Go Assoc. logos, and reminders of bicycling, skiing, Red Sox & blood donations. Printed on white (33k)

1980, Evening class photosilkscreening project:

The big apple & most of theword'SUMMARY' in red superimposed on a green orienteering compass, a representation of my litho of Herman, etc. 'MARY' from 'SUMMARY '1980' in red superimposed on a photosilkscreened rendition of my 8th grade class reunion photo. 15k, 21k & 17 k, resp.: the outside section of the long card which folded into three sections to fit in a business-sized envelope.

Bob's Vernal Equinox party invitation My bicycle tour of Vermont, the Yoplait ride, & a moose representing out Baxter State Park July 4th weekend trip, among other things. 75k & 27k: the inside sections of the long card. Each month of 1980 was allocated 2+ inches.

1981, Monotype:

Monotype of a green wreath with a red ribbon surrounding our brown player piano. (14k)Another monotype of a green wreath with a red ribbon surrounding our brown player piano. (53k) Every monotype is unique.

1982, Just Married:

Postcard consisting of our book-movie-&-bird lists overlaid with a line drawing of our honeymoon plane & a silkscreened Christmas tree in transparent ink. (68k)A variation on the design in which the tree is replaced by a wreath 76k

1983, Home ownership begins:

The back & front of our spreadeagled grey-scale offset-print-at-fin-pub card representing a map centered on our house and a photo-collage of our house. (60k) A line drawing of Eva & Herman holding up a welcome mat, decorated with a homemade rubber-stamp of holly 11k

1984, Stamps:

IMG SRC="owlcard.gif" alt="The boreal owl printed in brown, & stamps I silkscreened commemorating events from our year. There's a fir tree branch with an ornament hanging from it for a touch of the seasonal"> Variation 1(32k) The boreal owl printed in gold, with the commemorative stamps made from miniature photgraphs Variation 2 (31k)

1985, Woodcut with plotted dog:

The "real" dogphoto of the lifesized dog on our basement door bedecked with a wreath.(13k) On the left, which, when folded is the back, a dog made on Applicon's plotter. On the right, a woodcut of our newly painted green house with a hanging pot of faux pointsettas Outside(49k) Another(43k) A woodcut portraits of a bearded Herman on the left--he grew that beard in Alaska this year--and Eva on the right, with missletoe in between. Inside(36k)

1986, A pennant year,our hammock got stolen, & we went to the circus w. our neighbors:

The card laid flat so that the back & front form one elongated rectangle. Elephants & camels form a border motif. The back is a montage of photos. The front is a drawing of our new stairwell carpetting,etc. All of that is printed in green. There's a red overlay of the Red Sox's pennant & the words Rah Rah Christmas. Back & front(69k) A red envelope with the 3 camels the envelope(3k)
An illuminated letter 'C' containing events from our year,followed by 'eers from Boston in Old English calligraphy. The inside(7k) Cheers from Boston
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Cards from 1987-1995
Cards from 1996-2005
2006-2013 Cardd
A Contact Sheet of all the Annual Summary Christmas Cards 1975-1997
Exhibition of Christmas Cards at Genesee Community College.
Eva's Silkscreen Studio during production of the 1995 card
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