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Alfred Leslie (American, 1927 – 2023)
Printed by: Tiber Press, New York
1958–59

Medium/Technique Collaged silkscreen prints (direct glue drawing on screens and mylar stencils) (two sheets stapled together along all four edges, top sheet purposely torn to reveal printed image on sheet beneath)
Dimensions Framed: 73 x 58.4 x 2.5 cm (28 3/4 x 23 x 1 in.)
Sheet: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line Lee M. Friedman Fund
Accession Number1997.69
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionTrial proof for a set of four screenprints illustrating the Kenneth Koch poem "Permanently". From a set of four volumes, each with a poem illustrated by four original screeprints, published by Richard Miller and Daisy Aldan at Tiber Press, New York, 1960. Printed at Tiber Press by Floriano Vecchi. (The other volumes were "Odes" by Frank O'Hara with prints by Michael Goldberg, "Salute" by James Schuyler with prints by Grace Hartigan, and "The Poems" by John Ashbery with prints by Joan Mitchell.) The four volume set was published in an edition of 200, with a reserved edition of XXV.
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.l.: 1/5; l.r.: Alfred Leslie 1958