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J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend - Exhibition Catalog 1992 [Bodleian Library]

29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 3:01:22 PM UTC

Dear All,

I tried to look after some insights about this in TG but I didn't found anything (maybe I didn't looked deeply enough) :

J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend. An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)


This catalog seems to be quite scarce, what do you think?

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29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 3:19:51 PM UTC
It is great, love it. Yeah not very common; don't know the print run.
29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 3:28:56 PM UTC
It is a great exhibition catalogue, black and white and color reproductions. It has some items pictured not in any other catalogues, from what I recall and a quick scan.


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29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 3:35:12 PM UTC
Thank you Urulókë
29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 4:02:20 PM UTC
Anyone got an opinion on the Pictures by Tolkien catalogue?
29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 4:07:56 PM UTC

Caudimordax wrote:

Anyone got an opinion on the Pictures by Tolkien catalogue?

Do you mean "Drawings by Tolkien", the catalogue for the Ashmolean exhibition in 1976/77?

It is an important historical artifact but it only has brief catalogue data entries, very little in the way of pictures and those are all black and white and tiny. I love it, personally - mostly for the card wrappers, which are beautiful ?

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29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 4:14:36 PM UTC
Ah yes, I did mean Drawings by Tolkien; was shooting from the hip on the name. And good to know anything in that would also be present in Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator.
29 Sep, 2020
2020-9-29 4:19:22 PM UTC
If you are looking to find out what Tolkien art is reproduced where, you should definitely check out the Tolkien Art Index website, maintained by Erik Mueller-Harder (@erikmh).

https://tai.tolkienists.org/

Here's all of the items reproduced in "Drawings by Tolkien" - https://tai.tolkienists.org/b/Drawings/

And here's Arist and Illustrator items : https://tai.tolkienists.org/b/AI/

All of the tags are clickable to sort the art index in many useful ways. ?
2 Oct, 2020
2020-10-2 11:04:35 AM UTC
The most interesting in Drawings, except for the tiny drawings, is the introduction by Baillie Tolkien.
12 Oct, 2020
2020-10-12 12:07:45 PM UTC
Just a curiosity... I do not have, yet, the catalog but here you can see the exhibition's promotional poster. I got it in Oxford, from a wall near the Bodleian Library (ehem), trying to reach the exhibition (I arrived in Oxford December 27th 1992 :( ).
Hope you enjoy it.

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