Artwork Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Peter Grippe (1912-2002) |
Title |
The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City |
Date |
1960 |
Medium |
Etching |
Dimensions |
Plate: 13 13/16 x 11 3/4 in. |
Description |
The print project, "21 Etchings and Poems," possibly the first of it's kind in the US, was conceived by Peter Grippe in 1951, when he became director of Atelier 17, the graphic workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter in Paris, which moved to New York during World War ll. In 1950 Hayter returned to Paris and Grippe took over the operation. After Atelier 17's New York studio was disbanded in 1954, Grippe continued to work with the artists and poets in his own studio. The project was finally competed in 1960, nearly ten years after its conception, and was published by Morris Gallery Press. Each print closely integrates text and image, including a poem written in its author's hand and imagery created by an artist using innovative intaglio techniques. For the poets, transferring their writing to the copper plates, working backwards from a mirror image, was an arduous but exhilarating experience. In addition to the four works in the Pollock-Krasner collection, the portfolio includes prints by Willem de Kooning, with a poem by Harold Rosenberg; Franz Kline, with a poem by Frank O'Hara; Hayter, with a poem by Jacques-Henry Levesque; and fourteen other artist-poet collaborations. Complete sets are in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and numerous other important collections. Gift of Edvard Lieber. |
Catalog Number |
2020.3.1 |
Object Name |
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Current Exhibition |
Crosscurrents: Selections from the Permanent Collection |