Larry Rivers
Image Size 23 x 30.5 cms (9 x 12 inches)
Sheet Size 23 x 30.5 cms (9 x 12 inches)
Printed on Mohawk, Superfine Smooth, by Crafton Graphic Company and is folded vertically as issued.
These great lithographs are from example 206 of 2500 and contains the poem it illustrates by John O'Hara. A truly great collaboration titled "In Memory Of My Feelings".
Many other great modern artist participated in this grand collaboration as a total of 30 poems were in the publication.
This *Photo-Lithograph comes from "In Memory of My Feelings". Published by MoMA in 1967 as a limited edition portfolio of 2500 copies. The Art was selected by Robert Motherwell, and accompanied the poems of Frank O'Hara, who worked at MoMA prior to his tragic death in 1966. Through Motherwell and O'Hara's involvement MoMa were able to get contributions from the leading lights of The New York School of Abstract Expressionists, including: Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston among others, each artist produced imagery for one poem.
These prints are not reproductions and are included in many of the the artists' Catalogue Raisonne.
Mary Corlett writing in the Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonne says:
'Each artist was given a copy of the text of the appropriate poem, in galley-proof form with page layouts, along with a sheet of plastic, called Copyrite, on which to draw.
The translucent plastic could be placed directly over the layout to execute the drawing. Plates were then made from the drawings on plastic.
The book which includes approximately 46 *photolithography, is unbound…'
The original artwork was thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the 90's when MoMA issued a commercially printed book.
Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002)
Rivers is considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grand Father" of Pop art, because he was one of the first artists to really merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947–48, and then at New York University. He was a pop artist of the New York School, reproducing everyday objects of American popular culture as art.
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