Ideal Bookshelf

Ideal Bookshelf 304: DCA

Ideal Bookshelf 304: DCA
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 303: MAG

Ideal Bookshelf 303: MAG
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 302: SFW

Ideal Bookshelf 302: SFW
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 301: NB

Ideal Bookshelf 301: NB
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 300: RS

Ideal Bookshelf 300: RS
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 299: TPW

Ideal Bookshelf 299: TPW
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 298: TDN

Ideal Bookshelf 298: TDN
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 297: JH

Ideal Bookshelf 297: JH
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 296: RJS & LKS

Ideal Bookshelf 296: RJS & LKS
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 295: AL

Ideal Bookshelf 295: AL
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 294: TB

Ideal Bookshelf 294: TB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 293: TDP

Ideal Bookshelf 293: TDP
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 292: RDG

Ideal Bookshelf 292: RDG
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 291: TG

Ideal Bookshelf 291: TG
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 290: RS

Ideal Bookshelf 290: RS
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 289: MSE

Ideal Bookshelf 289: MSE
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 288: MB

Ideal Bookshelf 288: MB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 287: BBB

Ideal Bookshelf 287: BBB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 286: ADG

Ideal Bookshelf 286: ADG
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 285: JO

Ideal Bookshelf 285: JO
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 284: GGM

Ideal Bookshelf 284: GGM
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 283: NCF

Ideal Bookshelf 283: NCF
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 282: DDB

Ideal Bookshelf 282: DDB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 281: KB

Ideal Bookshelf 281: KB
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 280: LCH

Ideal Bookshelf 280: LCH
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 279: CRL

Ideal Bookshelf 279: CRL
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 278: RAG

Ideal Bookshelf 278: RAG
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 277: ADB

Ideal Bookshelf 277: ADB
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 276: CBS

Ideal Bookshelf 276: CBS
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 274: VJL

Ideal Bookshelf 274: VJL
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 273: AM

Ideal Bookshelf 273: AM
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 272: KK

Ideal Bookshelf 272: KK
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 271: WBS

Ideal Bookshelf 271: WBS
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 270: JW

Ideal Bookshelf 270: JW
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 269: HdlB

Ideal Bookshelf 269: HdlB
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 268: JB

Ideal Bookshelf 268: JB
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 267: KP

Ideal Bookshelf 267: KP
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 266: BCL

Ideal Bookshelf 266: BCL
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 265: KCK

Ideal Bookshelf 265: KCK
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper

*Your* Ideal Bookshelf

Hi there, if you'd like me to paint your favorite books (or someone else's), you can see all the size/price/number of book options here. Click on any of the listings for more info about how to proceed, and to see several examples of other people's I've done at that size. I'm pretty swamped with custom holiday orders but you can always ask.

If you're looking for prints or notecards from the Ideal Bookshelf series you can see everything here.

 

Ideal Bookshelf 264: LM

Ideal Bookshelf 264: LM
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 263: LB

Ideal Bookshelf 263: LB
2011 / 9"x12" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 262: RS

Ideal Bookshelf 262: RS
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

A great framing example

A-TG has a great post about their ideal bookshelf (which I painted last summer) including a photo of it framed and in their house.

Recent press!

I'm honored to be featured in A Sharp Eye (a great lifestyle newsletter) today! 

...and in a lovely post from the Housing Works bookstore blog...

..and this is a bit older, but so excited that Sally Schneider noticed her book was in this cookbooks print and blogged about it!

Also, thanks to Jen Bekman at 20x200 one of my prints was featured in Rue magazine and also on The View (although they tilted my print on its end and it looks silly)! 

...and last but not least, in the first issue of Matchbook mag on page 14, and in The Elements of Style blog. 

Ideal Bookshelf 261: CAF

Ideal Bookshelf 261: CAF
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Very exciting news!!

There will be an Ideal Bookshelf book! To be published by Little, Brown!

I'm trying to cut down on the exclamation points and use of the word "exciting", but to be honest, it *is* very exciting! I've been working with Thessaly La Force, an editor at The Paris Review, to create a proposal and the beginnings of a book that will feature the ideal bookshelves of 100 well-known "creative thinkers". So far I've already had the joy of painting the books that helped make Thomas Keller, David Chang, Mira Nair and Jonathan Lethem who they are today. I even met an idol of mine, Maira Kalman, and photographed her entire, giant library.

Then, just a week or so ago, Little, Brown bought the rights to publish it! There is no better fit, and we love all the people we will be working with there, especially Michael Sand. Everyone at L,B seems to be just as excited as we are.

From Publisher's Marketplace:

"Artist Jane Mount and Paris Review web editor Thessaly La Force's THE IDEAL BOOKSHELF, a collection of interviews with 100 well-known writers, artists, designers, musicians and chefs -- including David Sedaris, Maira Kalman, Michael Chabon, Alice Waters, David Chang, and Gwyneth Paltrow -- discussing the books that matter to them most, with paintings of their ideal bookshelves by Mount, to Michael Sand at Little, Brown, at auction, by Kate Lee at ICM (World English)."

The only thing that is not so exciting is how long it takes a book to be completed, published and released; it will probably be in bookstores in Fall 2013, just in time for the holidays. And until closer to that time I can't really show off any of the amazing book selections, sadly. But they are *amazing*, seriously.

Yay!!!! A book! So excited!!

 

Ideal Bookshelf 260: CMJ

Ideal Bookshelf 260: CMJ
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 259: JRP

Ideal Bookshelf 259: JRP
2011 / 8"x8" / gouache & ink on paper

Ideal Bookshelf 258: CR

Ideal Bookshelf 258: CR
2011 / 8"x10" / gouache & ink on paper