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Robert Motherwell, James Joyce, and others

Ulysses

1987

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Ulysses

1987

Physical Qualities Bound volume with text and 40 etchings (18 roman numerals printed in black; 22 etchings of which 20 are printed in two colors [black line and relief rolled with color]), Book: 333 x 270 x 140 mm. (13 1/8 x 10 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Ryda Hecht Levi Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift under the Will of Ryda H. Levi
Object Number 2009.242
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Ryda H. Levi, Baltimore; Arion Press by subscription

Inscribed: on frontispiece, center in graphite: " 58 RMotherwell"

Artist

Robert Motherwell

1914–1990

born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991
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Author

James Joyce

1881–1940

Irish, 1882-1941
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Printer/Publisher

Arion Press

2000–2000

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