Schanilec, Gaylord

Hole in the donut. Progressive proofs [box title]. When you come to a place you've never been...

[Stockholm, Wisconsin]: Midnight Paper Sales, [2026]. Edition limited to 16 copies signed by Gaylord Schanilec, sheets all approx. 13" x 26" and consisting of a printed outer bifoliate wrapper with 2 images of a 2-color wood engraving, a limitation leaf with 1 wood engraving, 4 sheets containing ten 2- or 3-color engravings, and as a coup de grâce, a large 6-color wood engraving on seven hand-made gampi sheets, the last under plexiglass in the bottom of the box. The box itself, made from black walnut from Schanilec's farm, cut, milled, dried, machined, and varnished by Schanilec himself, measures 17" x 29" x 3" with a removeable lid. Hole in the donut was published in an edition of 60 copies (55 for sale) in 2025. These progressive proofs detail the elaborate and painstaking printing process involved in making a colored wood engraving. "Hole in the Donut is the result of a residency in the Florida Everglades during the summer of 2023. On my first evening there my phone identified a bird in a tree as a penguin ... Seven french-folded sections wrapped in a 2-foot long, 6-color wood engraving of the sun setting over Scrape 22 and [six] other engravings with poetry, biological conversation & a scurrilous species list all contained in a clamshell box ... 60 copies survived of which 55 are for sale." Item #72642

Price: $2,500.00