Exchange: F17 Walker - ENGLISH 340 - Michigan Poets, Then and Now

F17 Walker - ENGLISH 340 - Michigan Poets, Then and Now

Poetry and visual art in dialogue

Lester Johnson
Still Life in Milford
oil on canvas
44 5/16 in. x 36 in. x 1 3/4 in. ( 112.6 cm x 91.4 cm x 4.45 cm )
Gift of President and Mrs. Harold Shapiro

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Box containing dark green linen book with the words "Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs" on the cover. Inside the book, there is text with twenty-three accompanying lithographic images. Numbered 53/150.

Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs: Selections from Poems by Auden/Lithographs by Henry Moore
lithographs on Hodgkinson paper, in linen book and box
16 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 2 in (41.91 cm x 34.29 cm x 5.08 cm)
Gift of Corrine Lemberg

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John Cage
Ideogram
typed poem on paper
10 11/16 in x 8 3/16 in (27.2 cm x 20.8 cm);14 3/8 in x 19 3/8 in (36.51 cm x 49.21 cm)
Gift of Professor and Mrs. Gerome Kamrowski

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Abstract expressionist painting in pink, black, green and ivory, with squares pressed into the paint while wet to make an impression.

Michael Goldberg
Untitled
charcoal and oil on paper board
17.9 x 21 in. (45.56 x 53.34 cm)
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

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Grace Hartigan
Variations on Clark's Cove
watercolor and collage on paper
28 ½ in x 22 ½ in (72.39 cm x 57.15 cm);35 15/16 in x 31 in (91.28 cm x 78.74 cm)
Gift of W. Hawkins Ferry

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A black and white ink print. Possibly a room in a house.

Grace Hartigan
Who Will Accept Our Offering At This End Of Autumn?
lithograph on paper
28 ¼ in x 21 in (71.75 cm x 53.34 cm)
Gift of Gertrude Kasle

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Larry Rivers
Bike Girls
Six-color lithograph on Rives paper
20 3/16 x 26 7/16 in. (51.2 x 67 cm);18 x 15 3/8 in. (45.7 x 38.9 cm);20 3/16 x 26 7/16 in. (51.2 x 67 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection

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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

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An abstract painting with a low horizon line, deep blue above the horizon and dark greenish-brown below. There is a brown cloud-like abstract form left of center, and bright white, swirling brushstroke right of center.

E. E. Cummings
Untitled
oil on cardboard
14 9/16 in x 18 3/16 in (36.99 cm x 46.2 cm);8 9/16 in x 14 5/16 in (21.75 cm x 36.35 cm)
Gift of Laurence and Nancy Goldstein

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This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45".

Glenn Ligon
Untitled
etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift on Rives BFK paper
25 in x 17 1/4 in (63.5 cm x 43.82 cm);32 3/16 in x 26 3/16 in (81.76 cm x 66.52 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Alexander Corazzo
Abstraction
grapite on paper
7 1/16 in x 5 ⅜ in (17.94 cm x 13.65 cm)
Gift of Gerome Kamrowski

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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

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