Artwork Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Lee Krasner (1908-1984) |
Title |
"Poem" from "In Memory of my Feelings" |
Date |
1967 |
Medium |
Lithograph |
Dimensions |
11 15/16 x 17 15/16 in. |
Description |
"In Memory of My Feelings" was published in a limited edition volume of 2,500 copies by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to commemorate the late poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), who had been a curator at the museum. This print is from copy number 545, printed by Crafton Graphic Company, and is folded vertically as it was issued. Robert Motherwell, the project's art director, selected 30 artists: Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Jane Wilson. The project reflects the longstanding relationship between art and poetry, as well as the ambiguities regarding so-called original prints and reproductions. The print is an original design, not a reproduction of an existing image, made by a photolithographic process. There are two untitled studies for this image, LKCR 445 and 446, which illustrate how Krasner planned the composition and experimented with the technique. She painted in gouache on a sheet of plastic called Copyrite, which was placed over a galley proof of the O'Hara text. Her two-page spread, printed in a sepia tone, uses energetic swirls and splashes reminiscent of those in such contemporaneous paintings as Uncial and Towards One. Her gestures are eminently suited to expressing the mercurial emotions and "strange quiet excitement" in O'Hara's Poem: Light clarity avocado salad in the morning after all the terrible things I do how amazing it is to find forgiveness and love, not even forgiveness since what is done is done and forgiveness isn't love and love is love nothing can ever go wrong though things can get irritating boring and dispensable (in the imagination) but not really for love though a block away you feel distant the mere presence changes everything like a chemical dropped on a paper and all thoughts disappear in a strange quiet excitement I am sure of nothing but this, intensified by breathing Purchase. |
Catalog Number |
2013.001 |
Object Name |
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Current Exhibition |
Crosscurrents: Selections from the Permanent Collection |