This portfolio combines two of Barton’s favorite subjects, hands and flowers. He privileges them equally, resulting in inventive compositions that seem to imagine a species that is both human and botanical.
Rick Barton (1928–1992)
Hands and Flowers, plates 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6
San Francisco: Porpoise Bookshop, 1960
11 linoleum block prints in portfolio, edition of 80
Private collection