The Poems
published 1960
Artist, American, 1925 - 1992
Author, American, 1927 - 2017
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 5 color screenprints (including front cover) with title page and colophon page on handmade Hahnemühle paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Prospero Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
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Dimensions
page size: 44.5 x 35.7 cm (17 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1996.144.1.a-e
Associated Artworks
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Grace Hartigan, James Schuyler
1960
Untitled
Joan Mitchell
1960
Odes
Michael Goldberg, Frank O'Hara
1960
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Floriano Vecchi, New York; (Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York); purchased 1996 by NGA, with funds donated by The Prospero Foundation (Raphael and Jane Bernstein) and the Ruth Fine Honorarium Fund.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on colophon page, lower center in blue ball-point pen: Well! Hi! Floriano! / John Ashbery