Another Road Scholar Demonstration

Dard Hunter Rose

I have been asked to do a demonstration for this group who will be learning about Roycroft and the Arts and Crafts Movement. I will do another two color screen print. I will have the first color printed and let the participants print the second color.

I was inspired by the Dard Hunter Rose. A wonderful arts and crafts design created by the well known designer and hand made paper authority of the time - you can read about him  here.

In June of 1904, Dard applied for a summer position with Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters. He was denied employment but insisted he could do the job and in July he simply showed up at the artist's colony and was hired. Within a few months, he was designing stained glass windows in the Roycroft Inn and title pages for Hubbard's press.

 In 1908, Dard married Roycroft pianist Edith Cornell. At the time, he was so enamored with the work of Joseph Hoffman and the Wiener Werkstatte that they spent their honeymoon in Vienna. For the next few years, Hunter incorporated the geometric patterns and the highly stylized figures into his work with the Roycrofters. Hunter's designs for books, leather, glass and metal helped unify the Roycroft product line and distinguish it from other American Arts and Crafts enterprises.

The screen print above is the small, two color print that we will be making on Columbus Day. I have matted this one with a black, rag mat. It is on a recycled tan paper and in one of my husband's hand made walnut frames. The Road Scholar group will print the orange rose and the three orange squares. They will be able to take their prints home with them. I hope that they will experience what goes into a handmade print from the inspiration, to the design and care in production to the actual presentation of the finished work.