Cyrus Highsmith: Red Horse (Alphabet Zoo) TiemannTypes Stempel’s Memphis family

Stempel’s Memphis family

designing and over­seeing the design of hundreds of book covers each year

and beautiful

for young Catholic intellectuals from 1925 to 1941

Cyrus Highsmith: Red Horse (Alphabet Zoo) TiemannTypes Stempel’s Memphis familyIn November of 2023 Cyrus Highsmith had a show in Tokyo called Alphabet Zoo. It was a window into his graphic world. His playful creative process and the joy he gets from mechanical reproduction were on display in his collection of screen prints, monoprints, and etchings. Drawings of animals and the letters of the latin alphabet, pulled from the pages of his numerous sketchbooks, formed the basis for the series of images created for this exhibit. Its