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J. J. Lankes Woodcut Print Collection, 1923-2008
Donated in 2008 to the Harvey A. Andruss Library by son J. B. Lankes

Box 1:
Book plate, Christmas and greeting cards
Collection Correspondence, 2007
Exhibitions, 1993-1995
The Frank P. Piskor Collection of Robert Frost exhibition material, St. Lawrence
University, October 22 – December 31, 1993
J. J. Lankes: Woodcuts of Rural America exhibition program, University of Richmond
Marsh Art Gallery, March 9 – April 17, 1994
Woodcuts of Rural America: The Works of J. J. Lankes exhibition program, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, September 28 – October 16, 1995
Exhibit Labels – J. J. Lankes: American Woodblock Printmaker & Illustrator, 2008
J. J. Lankes Woodcut and Museum Holdings records
Publications, 1923-1999
The Star-Splitter – Robert Frost, The Century Magazine, September 1923
The Century Magazine, July 1925, with J. J. Lankes woodcut on p. 258
J. J. Lankes and his Woodcuts – Sherwood Anderson, The Virginia Quarterly Review,
January 1931, pp. 18-27 (photocopy)
The Goodhues of Sinking Creek – W. R. Burnett, Harper Brothers, book jacket with J. J.
Lankes woodcut on cover, 1934
A Descriptive Checklist of the Woodcut Bookplates of J. J. Lankes – Burl N. Osburn,
Serif Press, 1937
A Selection of Woodcuts from a Woodcut Manual – J. J. Lankes, Henry Holt and
Company, 1937
The Month at Goodspeed’s, January, 1943, J. J. Lankes woodcut on cover

Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalog of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller
Barrett Library, University of Virginia – Joan St. C. Crane, J. J. Lankes woodcut on
cover, advertisement for 1974 publication
Julius John Lankes: Virginia Woodcut Artist - Welford Dunaway Taylor, Virginia
Cavalcade, Summer 1976, pp. 4-19
Sherwood Anderson, J. J. Lankes and the Illustration of Perhaps Women – Welford
Dunaway Taylor, Waves Press, 1981
Special Collections brochure – The Jones Library, Amherst, MA, 1983 - J. J. Lankes
woodcut on cover, the library’s Robert Frost Room contains the J. J. Lankes Collection of
woodcut prints and blocks
The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes - Welford Dunaway Taylor, J. J. Lankes woodcut on
cover, advertisement for 1999 publication

Box 2:
Woodcut Prints, 1917-1971
Number 4
37
44
170
235
267
281
291
314
383
384
388
390
391
397
398
399
399(2)
417
418
420

Man with the Hoe, Millet
Shepherd
The Peanut Man, No. 2
Julius J. Lankes B/P
Star-Splitter Dawn
Pisces (Zodiac Sign)
Taurus (Zodiac Sign)
Virgo (Zodiac Sign)
Scorpio (Zodiac Sign)
Xmas Greeting (March on Georgetown)
Xmas Greeting (Three Minstrels)
Personal Greetings
Thunder on the Left
Dawn – James River
Cedar and Grave (Two Graves)
On Top of Tobin (Jacket Design)
On Top of Tobin (Another Design)
On Top of Tobin (Another Design)
Brew’s Store
Massey’s House
James River Trees

3/10/1917
7/21/1918
8/31/1918
7/12/1922
5/23/1923
10/31/1923
1/1/1924
2/13/1924
4/26/1924
11/20/1925
11/30/1925
12/20/1925
12/22/1925
1/4/1926
1/17/1926
1/18/1926
1/19/1926
1/19/1926
4/1/1926
4/4/1926
4/9/1926

421 Big Tree
423
Steinach (Germany)
424
Massey’s House – Virginia Farmhouse
427
Barn and Horse
431
Potato Pickers
435
Frieda Inescort B/P
454 Beauty Crucified
488
Peyton Randolph House – Williamsburg
490
Negro Cottage – Winter (Two Boys with Sleigh) Wmsbg.
492
Burton Parish Church – Williamsburg
510
Plowman (snow cutting)
511 Little Church – Christmas Greeting
537
Spring Plowing (Graveyard in Moonlight)
538
Road to Bennington
539
Spring Plowing – Visibles
540
Spring Plowing
544
Violet Ornament (Aries Press)
544 (2) Violet Ornament (Aries Press)
545
Rising Sun
546 Marsh
547 Arrows Leaf (Ornament)
551
Evening Star, 2nd
634
Mad Hermit – Ecstasy (Kent Design)
680
Doremus – Storm
695 Doremus – Two Ships
1109 Summer – Vermont

4/15/1926
4/17/1926
4/18/1926
4/23/1926
4/28/1926
5/20/1926
7/15/1926
4/28/1927
5/4/1927
5/11/1927
7/22/1927
7/23/1927
1/13/1928
1/14/1928
1/15/1928
1/16/1928
3/25/1928
3/25/1928
3/26/1928
3/27/1928
3/28/1928
4/24/1928
9/14/1929
5/19/1930
9/11/1930
9/21/1948

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U1
U2
U3
U4

6/3/1971

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Marked “Dawn”
Marked “to Fowler”
3 Mushrooms and Frog
Old Man Reading Book by Candlelight

J. J. Lankes Books found in Andruss Library Special Collections

NE1112.L37 A87 2005
J. J. Lankes Illustrates Robert Frost: “Neither Out Far nor In Deep”: Christmas, 1935 – Amherst
College Library exhibition catalog, 2005
NE1215.L3 B7
J. J. Lankes: Painter-Graver on Wood - Bolton Brown, A. Fowler, 1921

NE1215.L3 A3 2009
Lankes: His Woodcut Miniatures - J. J. Lankes, Welford Dunaway Taylor, Tampa Book Arts
Studio, 2009
NE1112.L37 T37 1996
Robert Frost and J. J. Lankes: Riders on Pegasus - Welford Dunaway Taylor, Dartmouth College
Library, 1996
NE1112.L37 T38 1999
The Woodcut Art of J. J. Lankes - Welford Dunaway Taylor, David R. Godine Publisher, 1999