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The same year that the House Committee on Un-American Activities published "Report on Civil Rights Congress as a communist front organization", Woodcuts U.S.A., a book containing 20 of Helen West Heller's 2 7/8" x 3 7/8" woodcuts, with quotes by American writers and a laudatory introduction by John Taylor Arms, was published in a limited signed edition of 750 copies by Oxford University Press, New York. A softcover edition (size: 6 1/8" x 4 1/2") was printed by The Merrymount Press, in 1947, with 16 woodcuts and printed wrappers of textural effects.
Woodcuts U.S.A. presents a positive image of American life in the mid-1940s unlike the HUAC report. There are no images of authority: no industrialists, bankers, politicians, policemen, military personal or preachers. There are only images in woodcut celebrating ordinary Americans and their activities in labor combined with the words of America's great writers.
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Printing, Specimens, Wood-engraving, woodcuts, Helen West Heller, limited edition bookShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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"This ed. limited to 750 copies, of which 150 are for sale, has been printed ... from the original wood blocks cut by Helen West Heller. This copy, signed by the Artist, is no. 445."
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Because John Taylor Arms wrote this appreciation of Helen West Heller in the introduction to Woodcuts U.S.A
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