The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
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Artist Statementone of a set — Nick Fairbank
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Artist StatementAnother \"one-shot\" but this one has a special cool marbling that comes when oil and acrylic paint fail to connect. This is especially satisfying and #1 of the last...
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Artist StatementThis is another painting done in \"one shot\" after careful selection of colors and getting them into a bowl separately. The Secret gardens that are so spiritual and sensual...
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Artist StatementThis piece is made of only white paint glue, and flotsam and jetsam found on Highland beach, Florida. texture is realized via sand and dried seaweed. The coconut is...
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Artist StatementThis was an expression painted about a month after my father died. I rarely let one small blob take over a piece, but in this case, it was done....
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Artist Statement... — Diana Polanco
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Artist StatementâGwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?â...
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Artist StatementCan you use the other one I sent he other day Harriet Beecher Stowe gives so much insight into nuanced and complicated characters both for and against slavery. Character...
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Artist Statement For this design, the themes of enlightenment and the beautiful geography of India begged to be highlighted, so that\'s what I focused on. I depicted the most important...
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Artist Statement... — Dimitri Fisher
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Artist Statement... — Tyler Wellever
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Artist StatementâThose who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For...
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Artist StatementLove this story, and love any excuse to draw a cranky old man. — Nat Kusinitz
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Artist StatementIsolation can make us invisible, even to ourselves. — C A Speakman
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Artist StatementLove is always a lesson in duality. — C A Speakman
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Artist StatementAcrylic on canvas — Candy Carver
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Artist StatementThis piece was created using masking and layering techniques in the medium of acrylic on canvas. — Candy Carver
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Artist StatementI chose to draw and paint Piz Corvatsch, the iconicpeak visible from Nietzsche\'s Summer residence in the Swiss Town of Sils im Engadin. Whereas Nietzsche climbed it in Summer,...
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Artist StatementPeople always scoff and âeep!â at the sight of a city rat, but they have always been inspiring to me. City rats know the ins and the outs; the...
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Artist StatementI have creed this piece digitally using bold and vibrant hues to give off a feeling of action and warmth to give the reader an idea of the main...
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Artist StatementUsing a combination of watercolor pencil and digital manipulation, I created a scene showing the invisible man at the desk in his study. He is holding the quill pen...
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Artist StatementI like to do portraits of ordinary people. The image I used for this book cover was from a painting I did of a homeless man I met by...
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Artist StatementEveryone is familiar with the classic Little Women, and is not so familiar with its sequel, Little Men. So I took it as a challenge to create a friendly...
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Artist StatementThe face in the window is based on a chapter in the book, when a character named Lockwood sees the ghost of Cathy, the dead lover of Heathcliff. Her...
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Artist StatementIn my piece, I wanted to represent both the power and the innocence of both the characters of Gaston\'s story. I enlarged the Phantom, to demonstrate the control and...
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Artist StatementFor this piece, I wanted to demonstrate the close relationship of both sisters. I wanted to give hints of their personalities and style of fashion. One sister seems much...
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Artist StatementI took the different photos needed for the cover - the sky, the fence and the paint can. The person on the cover is a photo of my nephew.I...
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Artist StatementSiddhartha has always been my favorite book since my formative years as a teenager. But, in many ways, I never exactly knew why. I appreciated that he pursued different...
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Artist StatementI created an original ink drawing on vellum and colored it in Photoshop. I wanted to achieve movement through line-work and typography, as well as use bold colors fitting...
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Artist StatementSarah Crewe survives her difficult circumstances by using the powers of her vivid imagination. This cover is meant to illustrate the contrast between the cold and snowy London rooftop...
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Artist StatementWhat is being depicted for the viewer is a moment where Dracula has already claimed his most recent victim. The viewer has this moment to gaze into the eye...
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Artist StatementThis cover represents the eerieness and themes of death in Dante Alighieri\'s Inferno. — Montana Laschanzky
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Artist StatementWhile listening to Siddhartha in audiobook form, the cover image of the river and of the title character - bold, simple and abstract - slowly revealed itself to me....
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Artist StatementThis cover depicts the decent into the darkness that is Dante Alighieri\'s, Inferno. I made this digital cover in Adobe Illustrator CC. — Montana Laschanzky
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Artist StatementI manually created this cover. I took pictures of the flowers with the foil road laying in them. I used both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create the rest...
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Artist StatementI wanted to represent the darkness in the story but also have just a candle representing hope the Main character Jean Valjean has when it comes to his future....
