LEE KRASNER (1908-1984),

'Poem', 1967

Limited Edition Vintage Lithograph from 'In Memory of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara'

Limited edition original vintage lithograph print by the acclaimed American artist Lee Krasner, entitled, 'Poem'. One from the limited edition illustrated book, In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems, by Frank O'Hara (American, 1926-1966), of forty-six lithographs. Published by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, 1967. Printed on woven Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper by Crafton Graphic Company, Inc., New York, NY. Edition size: 2500. Dimensions: 12" x 18" sheet, center vertical fold, as issued. EXCELLENT condition (never framed or displayed).

In 1967, a year after the untimely death of the poet, critic, and curator Frank O'Hara, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, published a seminal collection of illustrated poems to celebrate the life and work of O'Hara entitled IN MEMORY OF MY FEELINGS. Under the direction of the editor (poet Bill Berkson), art director (painter Robert Motherwell) and poetry selection consultants (poets John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch), thirty different visual artists who had been closely tied to the life and work of O'Hara were invited to collaborate on the project. Each artist was assigned a different O'Hara poem and asked to produce original acetate artwork as a response to their particular poem. The results of the collaboration were then printed as a beautiful limited edition slipcase of unbound lithographs.

The artists included in the publication were 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.

Lenore "Lee" Krasner (born Lena Krassner) was an American abstract expressionist painter, with a strong speciality in collage, who was married to Jackson Pollock. Although there was much cross-pollination between their two styles, the relationship somewhat overshadowed her contribution for some time. Krasner's training, influenced by George Bridgman and Hans Hofmann, was the more formalized, especially in the depiction of human anatomy, and this enriched Pollock's more intuitive and unstructured output.

Krasner is now seen as a key transitional figure within abstraction, who connected early-20th-century art with the new ideas of postwar America, and her work fetches high prices at auction. She is also one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Krasner made only 23 prints, all between 1962 and 1975. But that factual summary understates their significance: Krasner's prints reflect stylistically her paintings, sometimes restating or elaborating her own themes, sometimes examples of trends among artist at a particular period - such as prints produced for cause-related portfolios - and an illustration for an artist-poet collaborative work.

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