I'm just about done with my summer tour and wanted to take a moment to announce our August winner and give you some exciting updates!
Thank you for your interest in me and sharing your love for maps and art. It is an honor to share my story with you!
I'm going to try something new!
The winner of this month's raffle will win a tea stained version of this fabulous map NOVA TOTIUS TERRARUM ORBIS GEOGRAPHIA AC HYDROGRA from 1680. The estimated value $13,000-$18,000 for the historic original!
It is one of my Pre-Painted versions. My painted version will be available this fall.
You can display it as is OR you can color it in yourself!
Everyone who subscribes to the newsletter is AUTOMATICALLY eligible for the drawing!
The raffle winner is determined by a random number generator. Everyone has a chance to win each month.
Show Schedule
Tell your neighbors! Tell your friends!
My Fall Show lineup is "falling" into place. A few more shows yet to be added.
I'm very thankful for the years of partnership with Sue at The Village Custom Framing in LaCrosse WI. She has steadily framed our most popular map, the Father of Waters! At my resent event in LaCrosse Wisconsin she really stepped up and framed 7 maps for us in short order!
Can you find our Father of Waters map it in the picture below?
In The Book Room
There's only one book on my list this month...and I am OH SO excited to read it! This is a thrilling tale in to the BLACK MARKET of ANCIENT DOCUMENTS!
"The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime."
Press Room!
I'm excited to announce that I will be featured in the next edition of Montana Quarterly! I will be sure to post links to the article as soon as it's published!
In other map news...
Here's an interesting article about a 1923 flub on one map of the gold coast of Africa!
It sure has been a whirlwind of a month!
With two more weekends of shows I'm preparing to say good-by to a wonderful summer with some hikes and "hello" to a new season of map projects!
I wish you all the most wonderful of Augusts. Happy trails until we meet again!
Best wishes, Lisa
"Despite the way they express a shared geography, maps are tools of the imagination first, mediating a relationship between an individual and a place" -Michael Blanding, The Map Thief
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