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Drawings / Georgia O'Keeffe ; introd. by Lloyd Goodrich

Catalog Data

Author:
O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986  Search this
Goodrich, Lloyd 1897-1987  Search this
Bry, Doris  Search this
Typographer:
Clarke, Bert  Search this
Printer:
Hugo, Harold  Search this
Leether, John F.  Search this
Clarke & Way  Search this
Printer of plates:
Meriden Gravure Company  Search this
Subject:
O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986  Search this
Physical description:
1 portfolio ([8] p., 10 leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. (1 col.) ; 70 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1968
C1968
Notes:
"An edition of two hundred and fifty copies has been published, of which two hundred and thirty are numbered and have been signed by the artist"--Colophon.
The acknowledgements on p. [5] are signed by Doris Bry of Atlantis Editions.
"Plates I through VII were first exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz at his gallery 291 in 1916 and 1917. Plates I and IX are reproduced full size. All other plates are 90 per cent of the original size"--P. [7].
"The ten drawings have been reproduced in 300-line screen offset lithography at the Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden, Connecticut, under the direction and supervision of Harold Hugo and John F. Leether"--Colophon.
Typography by Bert Clarke; text and title signatures composed and printed at Clarke & Way, in New York.
The prints are loosely inserted in white paper folders; each folder is imprinted with the title, date, and print number.
Issued in a white cloth portfolio with black-lettered spine and cover titles.
Contents:
I. Blue lines, 1916 (watercolor) -- II. Drawing number 13, 1915 (charcoal) -- III. Abstraction IX, 1916 (charcoal) -- IV. Drawing number 8, 1916 (charcoal) -- V. Drawing number 9, 1915 (charcoal) -- VI. Drawing number 15, 1916 (charcoal) -- VII. Drawing number 12, 1917 (charcoal) -- VIII. Banana flower, 1933 (charcoal) -- IX. Drawing number 40, 1934 (pencil) -- X. Ram's horns, ca. 1949 (charcoal)
Topic:
Art, Abstract  Search this
Nature in art  Search this
Call number:
NC139.O45 A43 folio
NC139.O45 A43 1968
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_648480