Visual Adaptations of Poetry

The image depicts a two-doored red cabinet, outlined in thick black lines. It has a light blue handle on each door. The print is signed and editioned in pencil (l.r.) "Patrick Caulfield AP".
Patrick Caulfield
We wanted to bleed with silence
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
This screenprint has flat, graphic image of vertical poles, transecting a horizontal plane, resembling a fence. Outlined in thick black lines, the fence is a bright kelly green and the background is a lighter lime-green color. 
Patrick Caulfield
She fled along the avenue
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
This print shows a clear glass on a windowsill, both outlined in black. The window is colored a muted yellow and solid blue sky depicted through the window. The print is signed and editioned in pencil (l.r.) "Patrick Caulfield AP".
Patrick Caulfield
Oh Helen, I roam my room
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
Lesley Dill
White Poem Figure (The Soul Has Moments of Escape)
unique gelatin silver print on paper
19 15/16 in x 16 in (50.64 cm x 40.64 cm);28 3/16 in x 22 ¼ in (71.6 cm x 56.52 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
There are two iris flowers surrounded by their leaves coming from the bottom left corner of the hanging scroll. In the top middle section of the hanging scroll is a poem.
Sakaki Hyakusen
Yatsuhashi (iris and haiku poem)
hanging scroll, ink on paper
40 7/16 in x 10 15/16 in (102.71 cm x 27.8 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
A long wooden box divided into two compartments, one small and one large. The small compartment contains an intricately worked gold thimble inscribed with a poem. The long compartment contains a silver thimble in which horse hairs have been threaded. The tuft of horse hair runs the length of the long compartment.
Ann Hamilton
scripted
gold thimble, silver thimble, horsehair, wood and glass
3 3/8 x 33 9/16 x 7 1/2 in. (8.5 x 85.1 x 19 cm);3 3/8 x 33 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (8.5 x 85 x 19 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
Chinese ink painting on scroll with poem, ducks and flowers.
Wang Mengbai
Pair of Mandarin Ducks (Scroll)
ink and color on paper on mounted on scroll
82 3/4 in x 18 in (210.19 cm x 45.72 cm);54 1/2 in x 13 in (138.43 cm x 33.02 cm)
Gift of Sharlynn and Andrew Circo, in memory of Sotokichi Katsuizumi
Iranian
Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
ink, color and gold on paper
8 3/16 in. x 5 3/8 in. ( 20.8 cm x 13.7 cm )
Museum Purchase
This print has a large grid pattern where the lines are colored in with yellow and blue, with green at the intersections, and outlined in thick black lines. In between the colored grid is solid white. The grid is distorted as to suggest a recession into space to the upper right. In the lower portion of the print, there are a series of small objects outlined in white. One of those objects has a red tip and resembles a match. This print is signed and editioned by the artist in pencil (l.r.) "Patrick Caulfield AP".
Patrick Caulfield
And I am alone in my house
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
This screenprint is in two colors: black and blue. In an abstract blue form, there are three small abstract depictions of birds flying. The rest of the image is solid black, creating an impression of looking out a curtained window. 
Patrick Caulfield
Ah! This life is so everyday
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
This print has two series of thick black parallel lines that form a zig-zag pattern and connect out to a series of spheres, resembling a wall-mounted coat rack. There are two lines of spheres; the three on the top are light purple and the three on the bottom are dark purple. The background and the structure created by the parallel lines is in a dark purple. The print is signed and editioned in pencil (l.r.) "Patrick Caulfield AP".
Patrick Caulfield
Oh! if one of Them, some fine evening, would try
screenprint on paper
16 1/8 in x 14 3/16 in (41 cm x 36 cm);24 in x 22 1/16 in (61 cm x 56 cm)
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
Aluminum shaft with block letters cast in black plastic.
Roni Horn
Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front)
cast plastic and aluminum
75 ¼ in x 2 in x 2 in (191.14 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm)
Gift of Joan Binkow

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43 Collection Object Sources

scripted (1999/2.15)
Fish (1949/1.194)
Watching Geese (2006/1.124)
Mountain Studio (1987/1.196.4)
Untitled (1988/1.120)
Display figure (2001/2.33)
Untitled (2015/2.91)

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