Sue Huggins Leopard, Rochester NY
More Sugar Baby is a wallet-style accordian book with a button and ribbon closure, two-color linocut with pochoir and hand additions in copper and silver, and handwriting by the artist. The quote is from Tristram, Part VIII, 1937, by E. A. Robinson. Printed on Unryu, sugarcane, and Cave papers. Designed, printed, and bound by the artist in 2006. The typeface is 12-point Bodoni bold. The clamshell box is covered in Japanese bookcloth and lined with handpainted paper by the artist. Created in 2006 in an edition of six copies.
Sue Huggins Leopard is a book artist and printmaker from Rochester NY. A sense of memory and a connection to history and myth through images and words is evident in her work and she employs her own wood engravings, relief prints, etchings, collages, letterpress, and handwriting in her books. A particular interest in 19th-century American poets has led to two books based on the works of Emily Dickenson, completed in 2006. Her prints and books are exhibited widely and are held in the collections of the University of Washington, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, and the Philadelphia Free Library, among others as well as in private collections.