Golden Dogs of Autism (Nelleke Nix-2009 copyright)

Golden Dogs of Autism is an artist's book, printed on Italian Magnani Velata archival paper, entirely bound by hand, within a special hand-made "tunnel" adapted binding.

This book describes the development of a charitable foundation which provides specially bred and trained Golden Retrieves to autistic children. The foundation is all volunteer and has successfully placed dogs since 1996, without any governmental grants.

Besides the wonderful thought-provoking original art, one finds interesting and moving true stories written by the artist-author from information and storylines provided by the founder of the Hairy Angel Foundation, Fran Elliott and the volunteers involved in training and raising puppies as well as by recipients of trained Assistance dogs.  The book was made possible through a gift from the A.B. Farrington Foundation.

SavvyCollector.com will forward all of the proceeds from the sale of this book to the Hairy Angel Foundation TM , the organization breeding, training and placing these dogs with autistic children. 

(Born 1939) Born in the Netherlands, Nix studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts, earning her MFA there in 1958.

Her work is in the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; at the Museum of the Holocaust in Providence, RI; at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at the Allen Library at the University of Washington in Seattle.

This very active artist resides on Mercer Island in Washington state. She has received several commisions to include a mural, The Inadvertent Garden Mural located in New York in 1999.

Her artist's books tend to receive awards for their excellence, selling out in short order. These routinely sell in the $250 to $500 range.