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CR 283
The Robinson Jeffers Print
1981
lithograph on natural Kitakata handmade paper
11 5/8 x 9 5/8 in. (29.5 x 24.5 cm)
Signature
Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower left; workshop number "RM81-550" in pencil reverse lower right
Edition
100
Proofs
1 archive proof
20 AP, numbered I-XX
1 CP
2 PP
1 RTP
1 WP
20 AP, numbered I-XX
1 CP
2 PP
1 RTP
1 WP
Publisher
The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach
Printer
Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York
Collaborators
Prep work for continuous-tone lithography by Kenneth Tyler; plate preparation and processing by Funderburg; book designed by Lili Cristin in Los Angeles; typesetting and lithography by Vernon Simpson in Baskerville 353 Roman and Italics; edition of 1,500 on Grandee Duplex Cover and Quintessence Dull Cover by George Rice and Sons, Los Angeles; project coordination by Jane Bledsoe
Production Sequence
1 color printed in 1 run from 1 aluminum plate: black – plate
Concordance
B 250; TGL 411 RM30
Comments
Motherwell's first exposure to the poetry of Robinson Jeffers took place in 1954 when Jeffers, novelist Saul Bellow, composer Roger Sessions, and Motherwell were invited to take part in "The Creative Artist and His Audience: A Symposium" by the journal Perspectives USA. Motherwell's contribution, titled "The Painter and the Audience," was published in the journal's autumn 1954 issue.
This edition was made in conjunction with the 1981 book and exhibition Apropos: Robinson Jeffers at the Art Museum and Galleries of California State University, Long Beach, under the direction of Constance Glenn. The exhibition traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas and The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California. Excerpts from Robinson Jeffers' poems "Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years" and "Let Them Alone" were selected by Motherwell and accompanied by Motherwell's drawings and black-and-white photographs by Renate Ponsold. The book was produced in two formats: a hard-cover edition bound in linen, which includes the lithograph by Motherwell; and a soft-bound edition without the lithograph. Motherwell's drawings were executed at Tyler Graphics Ltd. and transferred to plates from which a set of unique proofs was pulled for exhibition purposes.
This edition was made in conjunction with the 1981 book and exhibition Apropos: Robinson Jeffers at the Art Museum and Galleries of California State University, Long Beach, under the direction of Constance Glenn. The exhibition traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas and The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California. Excerpts from Robinson Jeffers' poems "Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years" and "Let Them Alone" were selected by Motherwell and accompanied by Motherwell's drawings and black-and-white photographs by Renate Ponsold. The book was produced in two formats: a hard-cover edition bound in linen, which includes the lithograph by Motherwell; and a soft-bound edition without the lithograph. Motherwell's drawings were executed at Tyler Graphics Ltd. and transferred to plates from which a set of unique proofs was pulled for exhibition purposes.
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