Robert Motherwell and Tyler Graphics, Inc.

Poe’s Abyss

1974

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Robert Motherwell and Tyler Graphics, Inc.

Poe’s Abyss

Artist: Robert Motherwell
Publisher: Tyler Graphics, Inc.

Poe’s Abyss

1974

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.

Brandywine River Museum, "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems," September 8 2012 - November 15 2012.

Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.

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