Last Night - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio by Kelly Finnerty

Last Night - from the Voices and Visions Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio by Kelly Finnerty

Last Night - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

Kelly Finnerty

Title

Last Night - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

 
Artist

Kelly Finnerty

 
Year
1983  
Technique
color etching and aquatint 
Image Size
10 5/8 x 14" 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
23086 
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 first category: Of Love and Loss. Its corresponding poem was "Love Letter" by Grace Grafton:

Last night the moon was still new / in a fresh sky / a star tailing its curve / I'm out for the Big time / the whole hog / ears tail and bacon / the one apricot near the top of the tree / firmly pressing its little girl buttocks together / my finger traces the line of meet / This is a love letter / Sky in my chest, my / Skull like a room with / blue air brightening the bone.