gerald & maas
editions / atelier
veracruz julie maas (1969)Founded by author & artist in 1978 and ongoing. For students, writers, artists, workers, partisans, deserters, pacifists, veterans, prisoners, victims, the banned, the forgotten, teachers, caretakers, exiles and anyone who can just get along the continuing saga of our generations on the hills, on the plains, in the streets of our cities, amid the powerful and poor and a confidence game of survival, where the people's dreams of North America are still alive under a flag of resistance to inhumanity - publishing haphazardly from here and there.
Works
in our press and atelier
Albert Schweitzer René Tavernier United Nations Texts Elizabeth Bart Gerald George Maas Julie Maas John Bart Gerald
le problème de l'éthique dans l'evolution de la pensée humaine / the difficulty of ethics in the evolution of human thought, translation by J.B. Gerald. Preface by Rhena Schweitzer Miller. French text: Revue des Travaux de l'Académie des Sciences Morales & Politiques. Bilingual edition. Maine 1985. ISBN 0-941917-10-X
Poèmes 34 Poems. Ed. and translation by J.B. Gerald. Introduction by René Tavernier. Calligraphy J. Maas. Bilingual edition. 1984. ISBN 0-941917-07-X.
In 1987 the French Academy awarded René Tavernier "le Grand Prix de poésie de l'Académie française pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre."
The Crime of Genocide & Bill of Human Rights: U.N. Texts (ed. J.B. Gerald). Maine 1989. ISBN 0-941917-12-6.
This edition was published with U.N. permission when we found their publication of the Convention on Genocide out of print.
Common Rights and Expectations: United Nations texts of primary treaties concerning rights of people, ed. & foreword, J.B. Gerald. (Canadian revised edition) Ottawa 1996. ISBN 0-941917-18-5.
Free online
Night's Lantern genocide warnings
Elizabeth Bart Gerald
Elizabeth Bart Gerald was born in Cleveland Ohio September 8, 1905. She received a Cleveland Museum School of Art fellowship (The Gottwald Scholarship) to study in Europe in the late 1920's, with Alberto Giacometti and Andre l'Hote in Paris, with Hans Hoffman in Italy. Her early works appeared in Cleveland Museum School May exhibitions in the Thirties and the Forties after the war. She lived in Toronto then New York City. Her paintings are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art , the Brooklyn Museum, etc.. Art and painting was the consuming focus of her life yet she was never a recognized American artist. She died September 1, 1990, in Tucson Arizona.
Antimo Beneduce, aka Portrait of Uli. An artist and one of her teachers at Cleveland Museum School. c. 1928. Cleveland.
Untitled. Mexico. c. 1953. New York.
Balcony. c. 1930. Italy.
George Maas
George Maas was born in Kansas City Missouri March 17, 1910. As a young man he studied with Thomas Hart Benton. As WWII began he won the Artists for Victory / Museum of Modern Art National War Poster Competition under the "Slave World or Free World" theme which gained him assignment to the U.S. Office of War Information in London (He was about to be sent as a foot soldier in the U.S. efforts against the Japanese in China). After the War he returned to work in New York City, and was known for his designs of Mercury record covers and anti-fascism. He retired to continue painting on Cape Cod though never gained recognition as an American painter. He died of a puzzling unidentified invasive pneumonia, January 12, 1998, in Boston Massachusetts.
Untitled (Silwan), a gouache sketch c. 1990. Wellfleet.
beirut 4/20 a woodcut, c. 1982. Wellfleet.
Red tree a gouache study, c. 1980 - 90. Wellfleet.
Julie Maas, born 1944, New York City, learned her art from her parents and began an early career as an illustrator. This yielded increasingly to her etching and painting which she has continued for sixty years. In 1978 she teamed with her partner John Bart Gerald to form author & artist which became Gerald & Maas editions / atelier, publishing and displaying artwork in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Ontario and Quebec. She currently lives and works in Montreal, and sometimes Maine.
A Alphabet. Ottawa 2007. Paper ISBN 978-0-9731090-3-0, digital ISBN 978-0-9731090-5-4 editions,"Maas redefines body language...The only words in Alphabet are the title, author's name and publication data. The font speaks for itself." -Amphora, Journal of the Alcuin Society
Works on paper
Folio 1.. Three etchings with watercolour. "Real books,""Night thoughts,""42nd street." Numbered edition of 50 (stopped at 33), 1981.
Folio 2. Two etchings with watercolour. "Disappeared" and "Green comb." Edition of 50 (stopped at 24), 1982.
Folio 3. Two etchings with watercolour. "Greetings from New England" and "Hats and Masks." Edition of 50 (stopped at 9), 1983.
Folio 4. "an alphabet" (1 & 2). 1983. Available at Fitch-Febvrel Gallery
Folio 5. 4 etchings with aquatint, gardens in Menton: "Menton night," "Dream Palm," "Foliage," "Datura." Edition of 7. 1984.
Folio 6. Ten blockprints for Plainsongs. Unnumbered, 1986.
Folio 7. The 14 original etchings which appeared in applegather .
Folio 8. Two etchings about etching. Edition of 7, 1985.
Folio 9.. Two etchings with watercolour. "Sandbar" and "Tide." Edition of 10, 1986.
Folio 10. 3 small etchings with watercolour, on two pages. "Spirit of the Squash." Edition of 13, 1986.
Folio 11. Exiles, two etchings with aquatint. "Cafe" and "Bar." Edition of 20, 1989.
Folio 12. 5 blockprints, 3 colour on cover and 4 portraits, "Earth,""Air,""Fire,""Water." Edition of 15 (incomplete), 1990.
Folio 13."Carnival world," 4 etchings w. chine coll?e & stamps. 4" x 4". Edition of 12 (incomplete), 2010.
Single etchings
"Lowertown." Color etching (3 plates). Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 10. 1997."Because upstairs they are crazy." Image size 7.5" x 9" +/-. Edition of 22. 2006.
"October." Image size 8.75" x 7.5" +/-. Edition of 10. 1999.
"New year horse." Etching with chine-coll?. image size 4" x4". 2002.
"Cold spring." Color etching (3 plates)/ aquatint, with bird stamps. Image size 9" x 7.25". 1997.
"Dog & the moon." Etching from applegather. 4" x 6". 1978
"Ferris Wheel." Etching. 4"x 4". 2008
Others
Print City, unique blockprint, approximately 33" by 47" built with the artist's linocuts and found objects on one sheet of handmade paper, completed 2005.
Gerald and Maas posters and broadsheets, artwork by J. Maas. Text by J.B. Gerald. Design by Gerald & Maas.
7 posters, Images by J. Maas, poems by J.B. Gerald. 11" x 14. Folio. 2004.
Daybreak,
a painting.
Depleted uranium,
a painting.
Gaza, a painting.
Green string, a painting.
Lost painting. Painted in Ottawa durng the 1990s. People were dying in the desert as they tried to enter the U.S. from Mexico. The painting itself was lost or painted over.
Red arabesque, a painting.
Veracruz, a painting.
Conscience, a novel. With scratchboard illustrations by J.Maas. Maine New York 1984. ISBN 0-941917-08-8.
