Rebecca Goodale ~ Maine

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University of Southern Maine, Announcement June 2020:
"New Scholarship Honors Esteemed USM Professor and Book Artist --
Over the past many years, Professor Rebecca Goodale has been instrumental in the growth and development of book arts at USM, where she has served as program coordinator for the Kate Cheney Chappell ’83 Center for Book Arts. With her retirement set for August, we are thrilled to announce a scholarship established in her honor by the Center’s Advisory Board. The Rebecca Goodale Book Arts Scholarship will provide support for a student in the visual arts, with preference given to a declared Book Arts minor. While Rebecca will be sorely missed, the scholarship is a lasting tribute that will benefit future generations of talented USM students."

Maine Craft Association: "Rebecca Goodale has been creating innovative and sublimely-made artist’s books for many years and frequently does collaborative work with other artists as well as public art installations. … Goodale’s current body of work consists of a series of artist’s books about the more than 200 plants and nearly 50 animals currently listed as threatened or endangered by the State of Maine. Her intention is not to become a scientific illustrator; instead, Goodale wants to inspire sensitivity for these rare flora and fauna by using her background in book arts and textile design to interpret color, pattern, rhythm, and transition."

Collaborations
Threatened and Endangered Project
Other Maine flora and fauna bookworks

Where To?
By Rebecca Goodale and Arlene Morris
Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2024. Edition of 5.

Box: 17 x 15 x 2.25” with orange lid and blue bottom. Smaller life jacket print on exterior lid and larger life jacket print on interior lid. Design and imagery developed at the Clammers' Shack on Bunganuc Creek in Brunswick. Box contains: base with slots(or gameboard) and seven double sided leaves (pages) of different sizes and shapes. Pages and game board screen printed, hand colored, and stitched by Arlene Morris and Rebecca Goodale. Screen printing and hand coloring occurred at Rebecca's Freeport studio. Machine sewing at Arlene's studio in Topsham. Boxes fabricated in Portland by Scott Mullenberg at Mullenberg Designs. Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills designed the type and letterpress printed prospectus. Signed and numbered by Goodale and Morris.

Rebecca Goodale: "An historic Clammers’ shack on Bunganuc Creek in Brunswick, Maine was the inspiration for this artists’ book which is a new collaboration with Brunswick artist Arlene Morris.

“We began working together one day in mid-December 2023. We were at the shack during an incoming tide with heavy rain. While the storm raged around us, we worked and we talked about the climate crisis and the changes to the landscape in our lifetimes and our fear of loss, and more loss to come.

“This book invites the reader to assemble the panels to create a specific place during this climate crisis. Each reader will be free to choose the arrangement of the seven panels to suit their aesthetic preferences. “
$4,700

Running at Wolfe's Neck
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2022. Edition of 3.

11.25 h x 7.75w x 1.75 d closed book, open 11.25h x 88 w x 7d in inches. Accordion structure. Mixed media silkscreen prints with collage. Cloth bound. Numbered. Signed by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale: "Wolfe's Neck in Freeport, Maine is home to Wolfe's Neck State Park, several parcels of land preserved by the Freeport Conservation Trust, and also Wolfe's Neck Farm (aka Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment). All of this land is open to the public for walks in the woods, fields, and along the shoreline.

“In the spring of 2020 when I was adjusting to a world without Yoga classes or an indoor pool at the Y, I began a regime of walking and running the dirt roads in and around the farm. As the warm spring unfolded ahead of the biting insects, I began to develop a more intimate relationship with this pastoral spot.

“The bright landscape was punctuated with farm equipment holding steady, waiting for the seasons ahead. I ran past orange and pink beasts that I later discovered were called tedders and hay rakes. I would turn my head and say, ‘I will be back to draw you’. And so, began my infatuation with stationary machines. There is a tractor that I have never seen move, there is another that is always on the go in the summer and fall. There is a hen house on wheels and a do-re-mi set of grain bins all with the name brand Farmer Boy written in large red letters near their tops.

“After making a suite of 6 mixed media silkscreen prints I decided to develop these images further by creating a small edition of pop-up books.”
$1,700

eight neighbors and roommates
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2019. Edition of 8.

2.5 x 2.5" miniature. Accordion structure extending from front board. Compound drum leaf assembly with a variation on a secret Belgian binding for the covers. Dry points, á la poupée or hand-colored. Text letterpress printed by Scott Vile of Ascensius Press. Handmade paper by Bernie and Patty Vinzannni as well as handmade paper by Katie MacGregor. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Poem and book by the artist inspired by spiders in her life.
$1,250

Garden Lovers
Lovers' Garden
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2017. Edition of 7.

6.625 x 4.125 x 1.5"; 5 panels, double sided. Jacob's ladder structure. Silkscreen printed on Japanese paper and Tyvek. Signed and numbered by the artist. Cloth bound covers and slipcase.

Rebecca Goodale: "A Jacob's Ladder structure that undulates to reveal four short poems and illustrations of beets, daisies, fox gloves, and forget-me-nots."
$800 (Last Copy)

Shagbark Sestina
Poem by Lisa Hibl.
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2023. Edition of 11.

9” x 6”. Bright yellow cloth bound covers with red foil stamp of an Echinacea. Single sided accordion book with two flag pages. Drypoints printed at Circling the Square Fine Art Press in Gardiner by Rebecca Goodale. Type design and letterpress printing by Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Foil stamped by Scott Mullenberg4 at Mullenberg Designs in Portland. Designed, hand colored, and bound by Rebecca at her studio in Freeport, Maine. Signed and numbered by the artist and the writer.

Goodale and Hibl taught a two day course at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in 2022. Course description: “The course explores and unites two creative processes: poetry and the visual arts. Taking inspiration from the forms, colors, and inhabitants of the Gardens, students will write, illustrate, and design an artists’ book.”

Not only did the students benefit from their teaching but their collaboration resulted in a beautiful book of poetry and drypoints – “Shagbark Sestina”.

Just out of the worst wind,
bee tucks into coneflower.
For days, it’s been hot
enough to watch snails inch
up the bristle-grass,
travel the outdoor ..

Lisa Hibl bio, University of Southern Maine: “Lisa grew up on Bailey Island, in Harpswell, Maine. She studied literature at Bowdoin College and then completed an M.F.A. in poetry at Arizona State University. After two years at the University of Delaware, she completed a Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Brandeis University, focusing on the garden in American poetry. Long interested in landscapes and representations of place, she maintains a perennial garden as ‘field work.’ She’s committed to mentoring students and to teaching innovative courses on literature and the arts, creative expression, and the environmental humanities.”
$350

Future Tents
Poem by Jefferson Navicky
Hand Colored Drypoints by Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2022. Edition of 9.

6 x 7"; 13 unnumbered pages. Single sided accordion structure. Drypoints printed at Circling the Square Press in Gardiner then hand colored at the artists' studio in Freeport. Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills designed printed the letterpress type. Bound in cloth boards with tent illustration tipped on front board. Laid in cloth covered clam shell box. Foil stamping on the box by Scott Mullenberg at Mullenberg Designs in Portland Bookbinding and box making by the artist. Signed and numbered by the artist and poet.

Rebecca Goodale: "In preparation for the 2021 Belfast, Maine Poetry Festival, poet Jefferson Navicky and artist Rebecca Goodale rented a campsite at Wolfe's Neck Farm for six days. There they gathered ideas while sitting at the picnic table or as they strolled through the campground and along the farm roads. At the festival Jefferson read two new poems and Rebecca showed a group of small paintings depicting their neighbors' tents. This 'Campsite Residency' led to the making of this book.”

It is difficult to erect a tent on
The crumbling hillside of the present which
Is always falling downhill into the gulley
Of the past. The future tents are made not
Of tarps or plastic of any mil, but of leaves
Overtop roots, caves covered by shadow and
Tucked into recline, here one day and gone.
                                          [Future Tents, excerpt]

www.jeffersonavicky.com: “Jefferson Navicky is the author of the story collection, “The Paper Coast”, and the poetic novel, “The Book of Transparencies”. His writing has appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Electric Literature, Fairy Tale Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal; his short plays have been produced across New England. He has been awarded a Maine Arts Commission grant, two Maine Literary Awards, and was the 2019 winner of the Maine Postmark Poetry Contest. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection.”
$1,550

Rope
Text: Judson Merrill
Drypoints: Judson Merrill
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2021. Edition of 9.

5.75 x 6.75"; 18 pages including pastedowns. Vertical accordion structure. Ink stained Japanese papers. Text printed in letterpress. Images drypoints. Bound in cloth boards with title stamped in silver on the front board. Housed in clothbound clam shell box. Designed and bound by Rebecca Goodale. Imagery onto the pages at Circling the Square Press in Gardiner by Goodale. Text designed and printed letterpress by Scott Vile at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Signed and numbered by the artist and poet.

Rebecca Goodale: "This artist's book was inspired by the text. In response to the written word I created a vertically long long long book suggesting the deep Atlantic and the creatures that live there. "

      I got hold of a rope,
      A brown and braided cord emerging murkily from the sea.
      As I haul it in, an algal slick stains my hands.
      Rope puddles around my ankles and laps against my knees,
      Saltwater pools onto the deck and the drips through the plans,
      A plump little rainstorm just beneath my feet. …

www/mainewriters.org/: "Judson Merrill grew up in Maine, studied literature and writing at Brown University, and received his MFA from Brooklyn College, where he also taught writing for several years. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Chicago Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southampton Review, Unstuck, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other publications. He has been an Artist in Residence at Millay Colony, Ox-Bow, Lighthouse Works, Guild Hall, and Hewnoaks. He now teaches at the University of Southern Maine."
$1,550 (Last 3 copies)

Symphytum officianle,
Comfrey, Knitbone
Poem by Cathleen Miller
Images by Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2017. Edition of 6 + 2 AP.

10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered.

A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with a poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open.

Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates — passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's Portland Studio and at Peregrine Press where Stephen is a member."
$1,700

Threatened & Endangered project: Flora bookworks
Threatened & Endangered project: Fauna, Species in the Air
Threatened & Endangered Project: Fauna, Land Animals
Threatened & Endangered project: Fauna, Species of the Water

Lullaby
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2008. Edition of 100.

4.75 x 4.75" closed; six vertical-fold pages arranged in an accordion-and-banner structure. Printed on Hahnemühle papers by David P. Wall at The Applecart Press. Cotton ribbon closure.

Goodale's primary body of work is a series of artist's books and prints about the plants and animals currently listed as threatened or endangered by the State of Maine.

Rebecca Goodale: "I wrote the poem after Wes McNair challenged me to write my T&E [Threatened & Endangered] project into a poem."

"I am
a nymph the
color of mud

I am
a mayfly in a
nuptial swarm…."

$120

Summer Grape
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2006. Edition of 10.

5.5 x 15.5" closed, extends to 55". Silkscreen printed using a screen with wax resist. Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, maroon cloth covered case.

Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series, a book of a flowing tangle of grapes.
$750

Summer Grape
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2006. Edition of 4.

5.5 x 15.5" closed, extends to 55". Silk-screen (black-and-white with some gray). Interlocking accordion book bound into a flat backed, black-and-brown weave cloth covered case.

Another in Goodale’s Threatened and Endangered Series. This black-and-white rendition of Summer Grape is the original version. Goodale used this as the prototype for the colored version, later published in an edition of 10.

Rebecca Goodale: "I used wax crayons directly on the mesh of the silkscreen to create the matrix. It has an almost batik or woodblock-like texture."
$1,000 (Last Copy)

Grammanoides 3
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2005.

Set of three books in a 9 x 9" cloth covered box. Each book with the same edition number.

Three books from Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species make up this set: Five Maine Rushes, Fifteen Maine Grasses, Cyperaceae. Rushes is an accordion with ink on paper with cutouts. Grasses uses a compound binding with mixed media prints. Cyperaceae consists of hand colored gelatin prints in an accordion book.
$1,750 (Last Copy)

Five Maine Rushes
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2004. Edition of 10.

6 x 8.5" closed. Accordion book construction with two stitched sections. Ink on paper with cutouts. Front cover bound in woven Japanese grass paper.

Five rare Junacae in Maine are the subject of this Threatened and Endangered Species book (Alpine rush; Slender rush; Vassey rush; Northern wood rush; Spiked wood-rush). The pale ink on paper imitates the color and value of the cast shadows produced by he cutaways.
$650 (Last 2 copies)

Seven Maine Ferns
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2003. Edition of 5.

9.5 x 12 x 1"; 13 leaves. Handcolored silkscreen prints on handmade paper (including pastedowns). Accordion construction. Green silk cloth-covered boards with illustrated handmade paper on front board. In matching green cloth-covered slipcase.

Goodale uses the accordion book structure for bringing attention to these seven ferns on Maine's Threatened & Endangered list. She lists the individual species' names under the name of the genus Woodsia. Her vigorous painting strokes and bold design seem to bring the page alive with ferns.
$1,250 (Last Copy)

Fifteen Maine Grasses
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2002. Edition of 10.

8.5 x 8.5" with compound binding. Mixed media prints with hand lettering.

Another of Goodale's books in the Threatened & Endangered series. Each in this series uses different structures and approaches to convey information with text and image. In this book Goodale used Japanese grass paper to cover the boards. Using this material allows the reader to have a tactile experience as well as a visual one with the subject of the book.
$550

Northern Blazing Star
(Liatrus borealis)
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2002. Edition of 5.

11.5 x 7.25 x 1"; 5 two-page spreads. Star carousel book construction. Handcolored silkscreen prints. Bound in purple silk cloth with tipped on illustration.

Rebecca Goodale: "This book is a seasonal narrative about Maine's last grassland which is managed by controlled burnings to protect grassland dependent species such as the purple wildflower called Northern Blazing Star."

Linda J. Docherty, Catalog of the Exhibition, Catalog of the Exhibition: Threatened and Endangered: Artists' Books Created by Rebecca Goodale, 2004: "Because human encroachment on nature more often takes place incrementally, the damage may be done before the consequences are clear. Goodale's Northern Blazing Star anticipates a future in which species survival depends on artificial recreation of natural patterns. This star book focuses on Maine's last grassland, the Kennebunk Plains, home to the grasshopper sparrow, upland sandpiper, black racer, and Northern blazing star. The latter, a rare plant pollinated by yellow butterflies, depends on fire to preserve the character of its habitat. Under normal conditions, lightning would kindle the necessary fire, but the grassland's shrunken size has made nature an unreliable source. Controlled burning now takes place here in three-year cycles, managed by humans in yellow fireproof suits that aptly match the butterflies. Goodale presents a colorful seasonal narrative of conservation and also compensation for what we have done to nature."
$750

Cyperaceae
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2005. Edition of 10.

7.25 x 8.5"; 14 unnumbered pages. Accordion structure with end pages pasted in. Handcolored gelatin prints. Bound in cyperaceae papers.

Cyperaceae is a family of monocot flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. Some members of family Cyperaceae are on Maine's threatened and endangered list, including those illustrated in this book: eleocharis quingueflora; rhyncospora capillaceae; scirpus pendulus; scirpus longii; eleocharis tuberculosa; rhynchospora macrostachya; cyperus erythrorhizos; lipocarpha micrantha; and finkristylis antumnalis.
$650 (Last 2 copies)

Sleepy Duskywing
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2009. Edition of 6.

5.5 x 5.5 x 3.25" cloth-covered box holds a pamphlet and interior lid that can be lifted to display a string assembly on which hang 5 butterfly cutouts (printed on a Gocco printer). The outer box has an interior notch for the interior lid to rest upon. Five cotton strings attach to underside of interior lid and bottom of the box. A cotton loop on top of interior lid lifts the butterfly display. Laid in on top of the interior lid a 5 x 5" hand-stitched two-leaf title and colophon pamphlet with text handwritten in ink. The outer cloth-covered box, a drop lid clamshell box, has a cotton thread and bone closure.

Rebecca Goodale: "Sleepy Duskywing was added to Maine's threatened species list in 2007. It is a small brown butterfly.

"After opening the box and pulling the string upward five of the butterflies float up out of the box. With a string from the ceiling the loop on the interior lid can be tethered in place for display."

Colby Maine Butterfly Checklist: "Five of the 114 species are believed extirpated from Maine and ten have been listed as state endangered or special concern by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife." Sleepy Dusky wing is one of those in the endangered list.
$350 (Last 2 copies)

April/July: Two Maine Moths
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2003. Edition of 10.

9 x 8.5" hand-colored prints with collage in magic wallet binding with wraparound case.

This book focuses on two threatened Maine moths that share a common habitat but mature in different months. Goodale uses a magic wallet form which unites the twilight moth, April, and zanclognatha, July, in a pitch pine / scrub oak barren setting. Using this format restricts the viewer to see both moths simultaneously but these two species are adults in different seasons so one would not see them in the same view.
$350

Beach Plum
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2003. Edition of 10.

5.5 x 11" with hand colored silkscreen prints. Two section binding with French folds and Japanese lace paper.

Linda J. Docherty, exhibition catalog, 2004: "Goodale also uses words to place threatened and endangered species in relationship to other living things. In Beach Plum ... she describes a community of species that share a protected natural area, Beach Plum Farm, along the coast of Maine. Complementary colors - red and green, yellow and purple - visually reinforce this verbal image of a diverse yet balanced natural harmony. The final line alludes to the recurring cycle of the seasons and also to the imminence of change. When the 'old women who still make jelly' no longer come to harvest the beach plums, another tradition uniting humans and nature will be gone."
$550 (Last 3 copies)

Eggs
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2002. Edition of 10.

6 x 4.25 x 1.5" An accordion book using mixed media of archival ink jet prints and ink on paper.

Fifteen birds' eggs are arranged by size. Each cutout is the actual size of the egg and the egg patterns are typical for that species. While generally in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species documents those that are disappearing this book points the reader to think of continuation and hope with the promise of new life under the delicate shell.
$450 (Last Copy)

Fifteen Maine Birds
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2002. Edition of 10.

11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage.

This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.

"In Fifteen Maine Birds, Goodale carries the ornithological interest of her predecessors forward in a comparatively abstract way. She simplifies and flattens her depictions of threatened and endangered birds and sets them against colorful backgrounds. The grasshopper sparrow, American pipit, and upland sandpiper appear together on a two-page spread. Squares of purple, orange, and green separate the individual species and unite the ensemble in a vibrant secondary color scheme. Touches of collage and the relative poses of the birds also hold the pages together compositionally. The threatened upland sandpiper looks back at the endangered, and more static, grasshopper sparrow and American pipit while striding in the opposite direction. Such iconographically thought-provoking arrangements underscore Goodale's environmental concerns." (Invitation to Wonder by Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College)
$1,250

Maine Butterflies
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2001. Edition of 10.

9.625 x 9.5 x .75"; 4 leaves. Silkscreen printed accordion onto which are tipped handcut inkjet-printed butterflies. Clothbound portfolio case closed with an elastic band.

Linda J. Docherty, Catalog of the Exhibition: Threatened and Endangered: Artists' Books Created by Rebecca Goodale, 2004: "Four Maine Butterflies illuminates the fragile beauty of the natural world. It invites contemplations of differences among insects that appear, at first glance, similar. Goodale shows the intricate silhouettes and subtle markings that distinguish Edwards' hairstrea, Clayton's copper, hessel's hairstreak, and Katahdin Arctic. The butterfly forms are cut out and placed on decorative backgrounds inspired by their individual host plants. In the history of art, the butterfly symbolizes resurrection, and Goodale captures this hopeful quality. The insects pop up and hover over the pages, vibrating with life despite their endangered status."
$350 (Last Copy)

Lynx
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2003. Edition of 10.

19 x 12", two section french fold cloth bound book with hand colored silkscreen prints.

To capture this animal listed on Maine's Threatened and Endangered Species list, Goodale visited the zoo where there were three little Lynx kittens. To be sure she captured their actual size on the pages she made puppets. From these she created "stencils" of the kittens in different playful positions.

Docherty says in "Invitation to Wonder" that "Lynx, shows three big-pawed kittens playing insouciantly. Such signs of regeneration co-exist painfully with references to the "threatened" and endangered" statuses that permeate Goodale's imagery. Together they suggest that it is late, but perhaps not yet too late, to intervene on behalf of species that are doing what they can to survive."
$1050

Lynx and Bobcat
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2005. Edition of 8.

Four inch magic cube with hand colored silkscreen prints which are mounted on cherry blocks. Housed in cloth bound box.

This shifting group of hinged blocks shows bobcat, lynx, and hybrids while the text explains how their overlapping territory has led to interspecies mating. Another in Goodale's Threatened & Endangered series.
$1,450

New England Cottontail
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2007. Edition of 8.

9" diameter paper discs printed on both sides; 12 unbound leaves. Housed in 10 x 10 x 2" black cloth-covered box.

The latest in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered Species series concerns the New England Cottontail. In 2007, the state of Maine added the New England Cottontail to its Endangered Species List. Goodale lists loss of contiguous habitat, highway deaths, and pollution as three major reasons for their decline.

Rebecca Goodale: "It is a circle book, a little like an Alexander Calder mobile, discs that are printed 2 sided with imagery about a rare rabbit and all of its struggles with the human altered environment. This piece will be in an exhibit at the Portland (ME) Museum of Art this spring [of 2008]."
$1250

Ice Melts
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2009. Edition of 5.

12 x 15.5"; 43 unnumbered pages, many of which fold out from the main text block. Block printed with rubber stamped letters. Cloth bound.

Rebecca Goodale: "This book unfolds to reveal a vernal pool with the four indicator species and a poem about mating season."

An indicator species is often the most sensitive species in the region and acts as a warning to monitoring biologists. The indicator species of the vernal Maine pool are fairy shrimp, blue salamanders and yellow spotted salamanders, and wood frogs.
$1,250 (Last 2 copies)

Fishing/Mating
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2004. Edition of 5.

A dos-a-dos binding with cut paper and ink mounted on paste papers.

During the mating season the Least Tern male will woo his mate with his fishing abilities. The female is given a fish each time they mate. The male spends his days perpetually fishing and mating.
$850 (Two copies remaining in the edition)

Maine Mussels in Freshwater
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2001. Edition of 10.

12 x 8". Hand colored silkscreen prints on handmade paper. Two section binding in flat backed case.

Comments from Docherty in "Invitation to Wonder": "Goodale focuses on species behavior that is ingenious if not intentional. When their population density dwindles, some of these mollusks become hermaphrodites, thereby maintaining their reproductive capability. The larvae live as parasites on unknown host fish, adding further mystery to their survival. "
$950

the abridged
Albino Bestiary
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2013. Edition of 8.

11.5 x 6.25"; 10 pages. Handcolored silkscreen prints. Letterpress printed text. Accordion structure. Bound in cloth boards with paper title label on front board. Signed and numbered by the artist.

An abridged version of Goodale's original edition of "Albino Bestiary." This version is a simple accordion structure. Goodale's poetic remembrances are printed on the middle four pages on a vibrant blue/purple background. Screenprinted images bookend the text.

I remember a white doe with a large brown spot on her side.

I remember a white fawn with a brown head.

I remember a neighbor saying that everyone knows it's unlucky to kill a white deer. ...

$450 Mai

Bird, String, Cricket
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2012. Edition of 3.

6 x 6"; 18 unnumbered pages. Handmade paper folded into 5 French-folded signatures sewn onto two straps. Handcolored collagraphs and velvet flowers tell the wordless story. Banded with button and thread closure.

Rebecca Goodale has been documenting the extinct and endangered flora and fauna of Maine since 1999. Her books in this area, as Nicholas Schroeder said in a review of her exhibition Lullaby, "vivify, celebrate, and elaborate them, often with poetic flourishes, rich metaphor, and abundance of color. Their surfaces mirror her subjects' habitats, and the rhythm of their bindings borrows from their intricate and animate patterns."

Once in a while she diverts from the specific theme of extinct and endangered to produce a playful book still with the theme of flora and fauna. Bird, String, Cricket is such a book. It is a playful book with bright colors and velvet flowers — a bird, a string, and a cricket.
$950 (Last Copy)

Calla Palustris, Wild Calla Lilies
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2020. Edition of 2.

15"h x 50" w x 11" d standing; star book structure. 15 x 11 x 3/4 " closed.; 6 dry point etchings. Cloth bound. Signed by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale: "This is not rare plant in Maine, although I had only seen it one other time before this spring. We had a gorgeous spring this year [2020] and with the isolation that came with the pandemic I found myself exploring new land trusts in the area. So I stumbled onto a bog in Harpswell and there were the calla lilies just pushing up through the water. I went back time and again to watch them grow and to draw. I used a gray ink on Japanese paper to imitate my graphite drawings."
$1,550 (Last Copy)

Asters and Goldenrods
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2010. Edition of 15.

9.625 x 15.5"; 22 pages. Letterpress printed. Hand colored silkscreen prints. Accordion fold with one end bound into boards via the pastedown. Bound in green cloth with silk screen illustration on front board.

Rebecca Goodale: "[My poem, "Asters and Goldenrods"] explores the intersection of my project with the botanical drawings of Kate Furbish."

The project Goodale refers to is her Threatened and Endangered series, documenting and memorializing every threatened and endangered plant and animal species in her home state of Maine. Research for that project brought Goodale into intimate contact with a woman of an earlier time who also passionately recorded and memorialized Maine's natural bounty.

Goodale's poem is accompanied by her drawings of 17 asters and goldenrods. A list with species name plus date and place of original drawing and sighting is included.

Bowdoin College, Special Collections: "Kate Furbish (1834-1931) was born Catherine in Exeter, New Hampshire, on May 19, 1834, to Benjamin and Mary Lane Furbish. When she was barely a year of age, the family relocated to Brunswick, Maine, where she developed a passionate interest for wildflowers. Like many young women of her time, Kate pursued a genteel education, which included painting and the study of French literature; she even spent a year in Paris perfecting her painting. In 1860, however, a serious interest for science gripped Furbish after she attended a series of botany lectures in Boston by George L. Goodale, later a professor of botany at Harvard.

"The bulk of Furbish's life's work – collecting, classifying, and drawing the flora of Maine – was done between 1870 and 1908. By 1880 she had earned respect among well-known naturalists, including the eminent American botanist Asa Gray. In 1894, Furbish also helped to found the Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine and she served as president in 1911. In 1908, Furbish bequeathed her collection of paintings and drawings to Bowdoin College. She died on December 6, 1931.

"Kate Furbish's name gained fame in 1976 when the wild snapdragon, named the Furbish lousewort, was rediscovered after having been believed to be extinct. This discovery helped stall and eventually stop the building of the Dickey-Lincoln dam and reservoir on the St. John's River, which would have flooded 88,000 acres of northern Maine forests."
$2,100 (Five copies remaining)

Alpine Plants
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2006. Edition of 10.

3.125 x 3.125 x 2.125" slipcase containing six 2.75 x 2.75" miniatures. Each employs a different book structure. Bound using floral ivory patterned cloth front board with solid green cloth spine and back board. Each book denotes the common plant name as well its scientific name.

Another bookwork in Goodale’s Threatened and Endangered series (in which she plans to cover all the threatened and endangered species in Maine). Alpine Plants was inspired by Goodale's visit to Mount Katahdin during the summer of 2005. Not surprisingly, this set of six miniature books spotlights Alpine plants. Five – bearberry, blueberry, moss plant, sitka ground cedar, and hairy arnica -- are in the threatened category: Dwarf white birch is in the endangered category.

Rebecca Goodale on her Threatened and Endangered project: "My research is multi-layered. I being by talking to local naturalists, who are incredibly generous with their time and knowledge. I travel to labs and libraries in order to draw specimens. I walk off into the woods, grassland, and tidal riverbeds to see Maine's rare species in their natural habitats. When I go to a particular place to see a specific plant or animal, I often find myself scribbling notes or making drawings about something else I hadn't been looking for. In spite of all of my research, it is not my intention to become a scientific illustrator; instead, I want to inspire sensitivity for these rare species by using my background in book arts and textile design to interpret what I see with color, pattern, rhythm, and transition."
(Out of Print/SOLD)

Back Then and Now
By Rebecca Goodale and Carrie Scanga
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2023. Edition of 5 (3 copies available).

10 x 14.25”; 33 pages which include two horizontal page fold outs and two vertical fold ups. Accordion structure. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Cloth covered boards with illustration inset on front board. Signed and numbered by the artists on the colophon.

Colophon: “This book was made in Maine, designed, printed, and bound by Carrie Scanga and Rebecca Goodale. … The pages are intaglio and relief printed with chine collé and some hand coloring and were made by the artists in Carrie’s Portland studio, Rebecca’s Freeport Studio, and at Circling the Square Fine Art Press in Gardiner. Scott Vile, at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, designed and letterpress printed the text. Scott Mullenberg, at Mullenberg Designs in Portland, fabricated the drop spine boxes.”

Artist Statement: "In 2022 Carrie Scanga and Rebecca Goodale visited Pettengill Farm, a study site stewarded by the Freeport Historical Society.

“The site features an empty farmhouse and acres of fields and woods located on the Harraseeket River estuary. The first floor of the house has remnants of wallpaper and linoleum, a few pieces of furniture, and a rock and shell collection. On the second floor there are images, previously hidden by wallpaper, of boats and sea creatures scratched (sgraffitto) into the plaster walls. These drawings were made in the early nineteenth century by an unknown resident who lived there years before the Pettingills did.

“Millie Pettengill, the last resident in the house, lived in the farmhouse for most of her life surrounded by pets, livestock, fruit trees and gardens filled with flowers. She moved away in 1965 at the age of 82.

“The visit inspired this work, a third collaboration, between Carrie Scanga and Rebecca Goodale."

A beautiful collaboration by two Maine artists. The images are compelling and lovely. Leaving the reader wondering and interested in the house, its occupants and their shared history.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Camels (for Rebekah)
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2022. One-of-a-Kind.

42” x 60” x 11” displayed with book and camels. Relief prints. Wall hung vertical star book and paper doll camels. Housed in clothbound lidded box. Signed by the artist. Goodale was invited to participate in an exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum. The exhibition was for work about Women's Stories from the (Jewish) Bible. “Camels (for Rebekah) was created for this event.

Rebecca Goodale: "When Rebekah met a stranger (Eliezer) and he asked her for a drink of water she gave him water and then offered to water his 10 camels. I wondered, was it twilight? Was it nice weather? Was it hard work? There were many men with Eliezer but she did this task without help from any of them. Did they offer to help her? Maybe or maybe not."
(SOLD)

Cathance River
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2009. Edition of 5.

18.5 x 25.5"; 18 unnumbered leaves. Silkscreen prints, hand cut. Single section book. Bound in black cloth with cutout of lily tipped on front board.

Rebecca Goodale:"Cathance River is a local, tidal, freshwater river. This is a favorite kayaking spot of mine because this peculiar and rare habitat is home to some unusual plants, including nuphar advena, a rigid water lily."

Goodale's work for much of the first decade of this century has focused on her Threatened and Endangered Series, documenting every threatened and endangered species, both flora and fauna, in Maine. Although the nuphar advena does not yet fall in this category, it is on the watch list.
(Out of Print/SOLD)

Cormorant Diving
A poem by Dennis Gilbert
Hand/colored tile cuts by Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Muse Press, 1990. Edition of 45.

6.25 x 12"; 14 unnumbered pages. Accordion structure. Letterpress printed on Nideggen paper from handset Poliphilus and Blado types. Hand-colored tile cuts. Bound in beige cloth over boards with title gold-stamped into front board. Printed and bound by Jeffrey Haste.

A collaboration between artist Rebecca Goodale and poet Dennis Gilbert.

Maine Arts Commission: "Dennis Gilbert is a widely published writer who teaches autobiography and creative writing at the University of Southern Maine. His interest in collaborative work has led to the publication of Cormorant Diving (Muse Press)…. "

Below, or above,
Remote and at the center,
A cormorant is drafting on the air. ...

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Extinct, Extirpated, Endangered
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2003. Edition of 10.

10.5 x 9 x 4.25" Set of three rotating rings. Each ring in its own box. Rings are hand colored silkscreen prints with collage.

Goodale uses different structures and presentations to make points about Maine's threatened and endangered species. In this creation she accompanies images with sound. Each ring is a flexagon which can be twisted and at the same time make noise. The sounds grow fainter as the species decline in number. Endangered makes the most noise with the black racer, ringed boghaunter, roseate, least and black terns as well as the tall white violet. The Extirpated ring sound is fainter with images of the walrus, grey wolf, wolverine, and caribou. When one tries to twist sound from Extinct there is ominous silence as the rotating ring displays pigeon, great auk, sea mink, and Labrador duck.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Holdfast
An Ensemble
Poem by Jeffrey Haste
Silkscreen by Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Muse Press, 1989. Edition of 35.

4.25 x 9.5"; 16 unnumbered pages. Accordion structure. Silkscreen and hand colored on Nideggen paper from handset Poliphilus and Blado types. Typography, printing and binding by the poet, Jeffrey Haste. Signed by both artist and poet.

A collaboration of artist Rebecca Goodale and poet-printer-bookmaker Jeffrey Haste. Haste, a graduate of the book arts program at the University of Alabama, has been making books and writing poetry for twenty-five years.
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Ilex Laevigata (male and female)
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2013. Edition of 3.

16 x 14.75"; six double page pop-outs. Paper cutting. Silk screen. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Although the Ilex Laevigata does not fall in Maine's threatened or endangered categories, it does have a state status of special concern. That is, while the number of occurrences are low (between 20 to 100 in the state) the habitat seems secure so it is considered rare but not endangered.

Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry: "Smooth winterberry holly is a deciduous shrub which resembles the closely related common winterberry (Ilex verticillata) found throughout Maine. It grows up to 4 m high, with oval leaves which are finely toothed along the edges and shiny on their upper surface (the common winterberry has dull leaves). There are separate male and female flowers, usually on separate plants, in the leaf axils. The staminate flowers occur singly or two together and are borne on long stalks, while the pistillate flowers are solitary and on shorter stalks. The ovule-bearing carpellate flowers develop into small, red berries.

"This plant is restricted statewide to southern Maine. Some populations are vulnerable to conversion of their habitat to residential or commercial use; other populations, located farther within larger wetlands, are more secure."
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Library Books
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 1998. One-of-a-Kind.

10.5 x 11", unique tunnel book using ink and collage on paper.
(Out of Print/SOLD)

Lilith
By Rebecca Goodale
Freeport, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2022. Unique series.

20" in diameter circle book with cotton braids. Ink on handmade paper. Wall hung. Signed by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale: "Lilith was created from the same clay as Adam. She understood herself to be his equal and when she refused to be subservient, she was banished from Eden and restricted to haunting the night. In Isaiah she is referred to as the night-demon accompanied by the wildcat and hyena (or possibly a jackal). I looked at images of sixth century incantation bowls that depicted Lilith. The imagery on those bowls was extraordinary and I decided to create a set of circle books about Lilith in the dark. If someone was limited to a life of darkness, then why wouldn't they consider any of these options- astronomer, poet, mermaid, housecleaner, or night-demon?”

Goodale was invited to participate in an exhibition at the Maine Jewish Museum about Women's Stories from the Bible. The Lilith books were created for this event.

Maine Jewish Museum, “Women’s Stories from the Bible”: “Stories we tell each other are all we have. There would be no past without stories of kings and wars and love and ancestors. There would be no future without stories of hope and aspiration and lessons learned.

“Saint, whore, mother, daughter, queen, slave, hero, betrayer, betrayed. The stories of women are abundant in the Bible. The work in Stories looks at these tales with 21st century eyes and retells them in contemporary book art form. Ancient stories can tell contemporary truths.”

(SOLD)

Obituary for a long life
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2015. One-of-a-Kind.

Ink on paper scroll. 3" with 1.5" diameter closed, extends to 108". Double-sided. White ink on black paper. Punch circle cutouts. Black and white ribbon accents and closure. Handwritten title.

Rebecca Goodale: "I was the one who wrote my mother's obituary. In preparation for that task, I created this long black scroll with patterns of white ink. I imagine it dangling in space and draping into a pile on the floor or surface below. The repetition and rhythm of the marks underscore the daily rituals of being human — cooking, eating, walking, dancing, working, cleaning, laughing, breathing, sleeping, loving."
(Out of Print/SOLD)

Quercus
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2009. One-of-a-Kind.

20.5 x 14 x 3" closed; 10.5 x 14 x 96" extended. Silkscreen printed oak leaves attached to a 13 cotton strings, which are in turn attached to the bottom and top of the maroon cloth-covered box in which the work is housed.

The Chestnut Oak (quercus prinus) is listed as endangered in Maine's official List of Endangered and Threatened Plants.

Lift the cotton loop attached to the lid's exterior and watch streams of leaves rise on 13 strings like flags on a ship's halyards. Quite obviously meant for display, the lid can be hung from the cotton loop so that the leaves flutter delicately in the wind. Fully extended this homage to the Chestnut Oak rises to 8 feet.
(Out of Print/SOLD)

South Meadow Milkweed, Great Spruce Head Island
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2007. One-of-a-Kind.

16 x 11.5"; 16 pages. Ink drawings on handmade paper. Two-section sewing on clothbound hollow back case. Signed and dated by the artist.

Rebecca Goodale: "My second Artist's Residency on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, was in mid-July. The milkweed was in full bloom and the noisy insects seduced me into visiting the South Meadow every day where I drew from life and laid out the pages of this book. In the late afternoon I would return to a small screened porch on the west side of the house, get out my brushes and ink to paint the pages. This book is filled with the music and fecundity of summer."
(Out of Print/SOLD)

Twenty Maine Sedges
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2001. Edition of 10.

5 x 8.5" banner book with hand colored silkscreen prints and collage.

Goodale uses the banner book structure for bringing attention to this plant that is on Maine's Threatened & Endangered list. She lists the individual species' names alphabetically under the name of the genus Carex. To bring the plant alive on the page she uses vigorous calligraphic strokes and bold design.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Vernal Pool II
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2005. Edition of 10.

12.5" closed; 19.5" extended theater book in 12.5 x 9" tyvek envelope. Slider illustrations hand colored silkscreen prints.

Vernal pools are small wet areas in the springtime. In Maine, they are the breeding habitat for four species. One of these is the blue salamander. By the time summer arrives the eggs have hatched and the pools have evaporated. This lovely artist rendering of the pools slides away to reveal the mating salamanders. Another in the Threatened and Endangered series.

Goodale originally editioned this book in 2002 but it was so popular that she has editioned a second one with brighter colors.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Wind Pollination
By Rebecca Goodale
Portland, Maine: Rebecca Goodale, 2013. One-of-a-Kind.

10.75 x 10.75" closed. Flag book. Roller-printed paper. Cloth bound. Signed and dated by the artist. "Seeds" contained in a small ziplock bag.

Rebecca Goodale: "This book was created especially for an exhibition on pollination. After years of studying grasses and their various ways of propagating,-here I have emphasized wind pollination with the movement inherent in a flag book."
(SOLD)