21 Etchings and Poems September 16-December 13, 2009
Introduction
21 Etchings and Poems
Portfolio of 21 etchings with a variety of intaglio techniques
Printed 1955-1958, published 1960
Printer: Anderson-Lamb Company, Brooklyn, New York
Publisher: Morris Weisenthal, Morris Gallery, New York
Ed. 50
The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, 2007.155.1-24.
Individual object information below displays the artist’s name, followed by the poet’s name, the title of the poem, and the medium and date of the print. Click the thumbnails to the right for larger images.
Introductions by Rachel A. Kaston, Class of 2010
Peter Grippe
Buffalo, New York 1912-2002 Orient, New York Dylan Thomas
Swansea, Wales 1914-1953 New York, New York
The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City
Etching and sand-grain etching with burnishing
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Shannon Flaherty, Class of 2008
Ezio Martinelli
Union City, New Jersey 1913-1981 Saugerties, New York Horace Gregory
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1898-1982 Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
The Blue Waterfall (Hokosai 1760-1849)
Etching and lift ground aquatint
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Ally Brown, Class of 2011
Kurt Roesch
Berlin, Germany 1905-1984 New Canaan, Connecticut Alastair Reid
b. 1926, Galloway, Scotland
Underworld
Etching and aquatint with engraving
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Elaine Mehalakes, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs
Fred Becker
Oakland, California 1913-2004 Amherst, Massachusetts Theodore Weiss
Reading, Pennsylvania 1916-2003 Princeton, New Jersey
To Yeats in Rapallo
Etching and engraving with scraping
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Meaghan B. Daley, Class of 2010
Adja Yunkers
Riga, Latvia 1900-1983 New York, New York Theodore Roethke
Saginaw, Michigan 1908-1963 Bainbridge Island, Washington
Praise to the End! (Part One)
Etching and aquatint
1958
Read by Jessica Planos, Class of 2010
Pierre Alechinsky
b. 1927, Brussels, Belgium Christian Dotremont
Tervuren, Belgium 1922-1979 Buizingen, Belgium
Poem
Etching, engraving, and aquatint
1953
Read by Ran Tao, Class of 2009
Willem de Kooning
Rotterdam, Netherlands 1904-1997 East Hampton, New York Harold Rosenberg
Brooklyn, New York 1906-1978 Long Island, New York
Revenge
Etching and lift ground aquatint
1957
Read by Alexa Miller, Curator of Education
Franz Kline
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1910-1962 New York, New York Frank O’Hara
Baltimore, Maryland 1926-1966 Fire Island, New York
Poem
Photoetching with soft-ground and aquatint
1957
Read by Nora Hussey, Director, Wellesley Theatre
Ben-Zion
Stary Constantin, Ukraine 1897-1987 New York, New York David Ignatow
Brooklyn, New York 1914-1997 East Hampton, New York
The Faithful One
Etching and engraving with drypoint
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Yvonne Ollinger, DS, Class of 2008
Ben Nicholson
Denham, Buckinghamshire, England 1894-1982 London, England Herbert Read
Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England 1893-1968 Malton, NorthYorkshire, England
Tenement
Etching and drypoint
1957
Read by Colleen McCarthy, DS, Class of 2011
Attilio Salemme
Boston, Massachusetts 1911-1955 New York, New York Morris Weisenthal
New York, New York 1917 or 1918-2009 Montclair, New Jersey
Tiresias
Etching with foul biting
ca. 1951-1955
Read by Megan Garratt-Reed, Class of 2011
Salvatore Grippi
b.1921, Buffalo, New York Richard Wilbur
b. 1921, New York, New York
Mind
Etching, lift ground aquatint, and engraving
1956
Read by Marie Ayabe, Class of 2008
Karl Schrag
Karlsruhe, Germany 1912-1995 New York, New York David Lougée
Dates unknown
Fiercely, Lady, Do We Ride
Etching, engraving, and aquatint
1956
Read by Courtney Richter, Class of 2009
André Racz
Cluj, Romania 1916-1994 Demerest, New Jersey Thomas Merton
Prades, France 1915-1968 Bangkok, Thailand
Aubade—Harlem
Etching, deep etching, and aquatint with burnishing
ca. 1951-1958
printer: the artist
Read by Lawrence Rosenwald, Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English
Jacques Lipchitz
Druskieniki, Lithuania 1891-1973 Capri, Italy Hans Sahl
Dresden, Germany 1902-1993 Tübingen, Germany
Gedicht (Poem)
Etching and lift ground aquatint with burnishing and foul biting
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Thomas Hansen, Professor of German
Louis Schanker
New York 1903-1981 Stamford, Connecticut Harold Norse
Brooklyn, New York 1916-2009 San Francisco, California
Most Often in the Night
Etching and aquatint with foul biting
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Adrienne Jacobson, Class of 2009
Helen Phillips
Fresno, California 1913-1995 New York, New York André Verdet
Nice, France 1913-2004 Saint Paul de Vence, France
Poem
Deep etching
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Leah Robins, Class of 2008
Letterio Calapai
Boston, Massachusetts 1902-1993 Glencoe, Illinois William Carlos Williams
Rutherford, New Jersey 1883-1963
To a Poor Old Woman
Etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, and lift ground aquatint
ca. 1957
Read by Makkah Ali, Class of 2010
Stanley William Hayter
London, England 1901-1988 Paris, France Jacques Henry Levesque
Paris, France 1899 – 1969 or 1970 New York, New York
Poem
Deep etching
1947
Read by Sarah Dickerson, Class of 2010
Irene Rice Pereira
Chelsea, Massachusetts 1902-1971 Marbella, Spain George Reavey
Belfast, Ireland 1907-1976 New York, New York
Omega
Etching and lift ground aquatint
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Kristina L. Szilagyi, Class of 2009
Esteban Vicente
Turégano, Spain 1904-2001 Bridgehampton, New York Peter Viereck
New York, New York 1916-2006 South Hadley, Massachusetts
Nostalgia
Etching and lift ground aquatint with spit bite
ca. 1951-1958
Read by Melinda C. Rios, DS, Class of 2010
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