WES MILLS — Missoula Drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, 2000

Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, 2000. First edition. Softcover.

Published on the occasion of Wes Mills: Missoula Drawings, Joseph Helman Gallery, 20 West 57th Street, New York, January–February 2000. Reviewed in The New York Times and Artnet Magazine.

A small, quiet publication organised around reduction. Grey textured wrappers, pale type, almost disappearing into the surface. The object announces itself softly: artist, place, drawings.

Inside, the reproduced works hold to the lower edge of visibility. Graphite marks, partial structures, faint inscriptions, large areas of paper. The drawing appears not as completed image but as a record of pressure, hesitation, and placement — each mark registering a decision made at the edge of legibility.

The book operates simultaneously as gallery document, exhibition residue, and portable register of a specific drawing sequence made under the name Missoula Drawings. It does not explain the work. It holds it in printed form, at reduced scale, in a format that carries the same restraint as the drawings themselves.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear to covers. Clean interior. Original period item.