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The Poems

Joan Mitchell, John Ashbery, Tiber Press, Floriano Vecchi, Bruder Hartmann

The Poems

1959

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Joan Mitchell, John Ashbery, Tiber Press, Floriano Vecchi, Bruder Hartmann

The Poems

1959

Physical Qualities Bound volume with five color screenprints (including image on the cover and title page) and text, Book: 452 × 365 × 12 mm. (17 13/16 × 14 3/8 × 1/2 in.) Other (slipcover): 463 × 370 mm. (18 1/4 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Floriano Vecchi, New York, in Memory of William Richard Miller
Object Number 1991.53
This untitled set of four large-scale volumes is a collaboration of pairings between four leading New York School poets and four prominent Abstract Expressionist painters. The collaborators were selected and paired by Tiber Press’s founders, master printer Floriano Vecchi and businessman Richard Miller, with the assistance of the poet, teacher, and radio actress Daisy Aldan. For Joan Mitchell and Mike Goldberg, this project was their first foray into printmaking; Grace Hartigan and Alfred Leslie had made their first screenprints with Tiber Press a few years earlier. The use of matte and gloss inks as well as the layering of colors made this printmaking medium well suited to the artists’ spontaneously executed, tactile, and non-objective compositions.
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Joan Mitchell

Inscribed: Below colophon, in blue ink: "With all my love Joan Mitchell"

Markings: None

Artist

Joan Mitchell

American, 1925-1992
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Author

John Ashbery

American, 1927-2017
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Publisher

Tiber Press

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Printer (prints)

Floriano Vecchi

American, born Italy, 1920-2005
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Printer (text)

Bruder Hartmann

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