Ephraim Rubenstein’s Still-Life Painting on the Cover of “The Library Book”

Ephraim Rubenstein’s painting Book Pile XXIV has been published on the cover of the Korean language edition of Susan Orleans’ The Library Book, an account of a 1986 fire at the Los Angels County Library that destroyed over 400,000 books. This painting is part of Ephraim’s larger series of still lifes of used and discarded books.