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Beautiful Evidence: New Illustrations Cut from Encyclopedias and Primary Readers by Thomas Allen

August 23, 2012

Christopher Jobson

Book artist Thomas Allen (previously) just published a dozen new works in advance of his forthcoming show, Beautiful Evidence, at Foley Gallery in New York opening September 9th, 2012. Allen pours through old encyclopedias, primary readers and science books to extract figures for these perfectly composed illustrations. See the rest over on his blog.

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