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Poe’s Abyss

Robert Motherwell and Tyler Graphics, Inc.

Poe’s Abyss

1975

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Poe’s Abyss

1975

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
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

Artist

Robert Motherwell

born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991

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