Helen Phillips and André Verdet
Poem
1952
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Open bite etching, Sheet: 500 x 424 mm. (19 11/16 x 16 11/16 in.)
Plate: 348 x 296 mm. (13 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society
Object Number
2008.114
Printed in dark green (intaglio), and orange (relief). A color trial proof from the series 21 Etchings and Poems, featuring: Pierre Alechinsky, Poem; Fred Becker, To Yeats in Rapallo; Ben-Zion, The Faithful One; Letterio Calapai, To a Poor Old Woman; Willem de Kooning, Revenge; Peter Grippe, The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City; Salvatore Grippi, Mind; S. W. Hayter, Poem; Franz Kline, Poem; Jacques Lipchitz, Gedicht; Ezio Matinelli, The Blue Waterfall; Ben Nicholson, Tenement; I. Rice Pereira, Omega; Helen Phillips, Poem; Andre Racz, Aubade-Harlem; Kurt Roesch, Underworld; Attilio Salemme, Tiresias; Louis Schanker, Most Often in the Night; Karl Schrag, Fiercely, Lady, Do We Ride; Esteban Vicente, Nostalgia; and Adja Yunkers, Praise to the End!.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2008; The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA
Inscribed: lower left in plate: "Phillips"; lower right in plate: "André Verdet"; lower left in graphite: "Epreuve d'artiste- 19/ "; lower right in graphite: "Helen Phillips '53"
