Mind - plate 10 from 21 Etchings and Poems; with poet Richard Wilbur

 

Salvatore Grippi

  1921 - 2017 (biography)

1956  

etching with lift-ground, engraving, and photogravure 

13 15/16 x 9 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered, from an edition of 50 

pencil dated; text by poet transferred to plate via photogravure 

MOMA accession # 131.1963.7; Minneapolis Museum of Art # P.86.59.7 

soft, thick antique-white laid 

published (1960) 

Morris Gallery 

21846 

SOLD

From the collaborative folio "21 Etchings and Poems" compiled by Peter Grippe, then-director of the New York branch of Atelier 17. Grippe started the project around 1950, sending a selection of written works by 21 poets from as Dylan Thomas, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, and others to 21 artists such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Salvatore Grippi to choose from. The poets' handwritten work was tranferred directly to the plate of the corresponding artist. New York's Atelier 17 disbanded in 1954 but Grippe continued to work on the project with the artists in his own studio. In 1960 the project was finally completed and published by the Morris Gallery in New York.