Robert Motherwell and Tyler Graphics, Inc.
Poe’s Abyss
1974
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Brush and tusche lithograph printed in red-brown and crayon lithograph printed in black, Sheet: 1168 x 1067 mm. (46 x 42 in.)
Credit Line
Partial gift of the Dedalus Foundation, New York; and Women's Committee Acquisitions Endowment for Contemporary Prints and Photographs
Object Number
2009.131
T Primeau notes the presence of peau de crapaud in this print, resulting from a thin tusche applied to zinc plate, which looks like the skin of a toad (see The Tamarind Book of Lithography (1970) for a detailed explanation, p. 140.
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems
Exhibition booklet "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems (September 8 - November 15, 2012)," illustrated fig. 17
'Edgar Allan Poe,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 8-9, ill. p. 9.
Signed: 2 (one stone, one aluminum plate)
Inscribed: upper left in stone (backwards): "Motherwell 75"; lower right in graphite: "Motherwell (trial 1)"
Markings: Chopmark: Tyler, Motherwell
