Granted an art scholarship to Yale University in the 1940’s, Walter Feldman (1925 – 2017) was mentored by two of the most influential modernist painters in American Art, Josef Albers and Wilhelm de Kooning.  He became committed to Modernist ideology evolving his work over a 50- year career at Brown University from 1953 – 2015.  Feldman was productive and expansive in his artistic exploration throughout his life.  He constantly challenged himself in many art forms working with a myriad of materials beyond paint.  In 1952, his first woodblock print, The Final Agony, won the Metropolitan Museum print prize.  This was not only an important landmark for the young artist but the beginning of a lifelong love of printmaking.  A 1956 Fulbright Fellowship for study in Italy followed by a 1960 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship for study in Mexico were two seminal events that profoundly influenced Feldman’s direction in painting and printmaking.  He mastered mosaics while continuing to paint, print, collage and assemble sculpture.  By 1985 he concentrated on handmade artist books, establishing Ziggurat Press.  Book making became a natural extension of his printmaking talent and interest in written symbols.