Flower and Sea Triptych - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio by Anita Toney

Flower and Sea Triptych - from the Voices and Visions Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio by Anita Toney

Flower and Sea Triptych - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

Anita Toney

Title

Flower and Sea Triptych - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

 
Artist

Anita Toney

  1948 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1983  
Technique
color etching and aquatint 
Image Size
10 5/8 x 14 1/2" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
III/XXV 
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
cream Arches Cover wove 
State
published 
Publisher
The Fort Mason Printmakers under the direction of Eleanor Rappe 
Inventory ID
23090 
Price
SOLD
Description

From the portfolio of 22 etchings by 22 artists, titled "Voice and Visions: A Book of Poems and Etchings." Printed by the Fort Mason Printmakers in San Francisco under the direction of Eleanor Rappe, each work was inspired by a poem of the artist's choice, corresponding to their assigned category: Part I, Of Love and Loss; Part II, Upon the Earth; Part III, Under the Heavens; Part IV, Journeys of the Mind; and Part V, Metamorphoses.

This print is from the second category: Upon the Earth. Its corresponding poem was "Flowers by the Sea" by William Carlos Williams:

When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s / edge, unseen, the salt ocean / lifts its form—chicory and daisies / tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone / but color and the movement—or the shape / perhaps—of restlessness, whereas / the sea is circled and sways / peacefully upon its plantlike stem