About The Catalog: The Catalog Raisonne is a 48-page, four-color booklet with two oversize fold-out pages which display the images of all 201 hand-pulled woodcuts created by the artist between 1950 to 1988. Comprehensive information about each woodcut is also included. With this book you also receive the four-color Supplemental Listing showing and detailing woodcuts pulled between 1988 and 1999, as well as an Addendum of prints completed by Summers between 1999 through the present, a total 255 woodblock prints, lithographs, silkscreens, posters and catalogs.

In other words, you will own a comprehensive survey, including color pictures, of the entire portfolio of one of America’s most important printmakers. This Catalog was published in 1988; the ISBN Number is 0-9620328-0-8 and the Library of Congress number NE539.S86A4. This out-of-print Catalog Raisonne is fresh from the publisher's shipping box and therefore in excellent condition. It is signed on the inside front page in pen by the artist.

In the first half of the catalog, there is a poignant essay written by Summers about his life and art. It is interspersed with 18 pictures of various masterworks including Sunset After Storm, Chinese Landscape, The Likiang, Summer Pasture, Mezzogiorno, A Tibetan Dream, Rocky Mountains, Baktapur, Hellespont, Cairo's Flag, Altiplano, Rainy Mountain Starfall, First Rain, The Lexington Fire, Volcan Fuego, Kali Gandaki and The End.

About The Artist: Carol Summers is one of the master printmakers of the 20th century and a national treasure. His (yes it is a he) woodblocks are in the permanent collection of virtually every major museum in the world. Summers was one of the originators of what has come to be known as the monumental woodcut.....big, bold and beautiful. His oversize woodblock prints over the past 60 years have included oceans, mountains, stars, lakes, palm trees, rivers, architectural motifs plus several abstracts. Summers’ body of work includes many landscapes and scenes from United States, Mexico, Europe and India where he has spent a considerable amount of time. He is famous for his stunning use of saturated color and flat color planes all tied to the world landscape.

Indeed, Summers’ work is in the permanent collections of virtually every major museum in the world...including the MET, MOMA, LA County Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Kunstmuseums throughout Europe plus many more. His work is featured and discussed in over 25 important art reference books. He enjoys such stature that he is one of the very few contemporary artists listed in that bible for art collectors, critics and curators, Who Was Who In American Art and in the prestigious online reference library at AskArt.

At the turn of the last millennium, two major museum retrospective exhibitions were held in New York and California. In conjunction with these record-breaking One-Man Shows, a CAROL SUMMERS 50 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CATALOG was published which contains full-page color images of 50 extraordinary woodcuts selected by the artist himself. This second book is also available at Peggity's here online. They are also signed personally by Carol Summers and there is an actual mini-woodcut bound in the front and back of each book.