May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
McGRAW, DeLOSS; and SNODGRASS, W.D. / BRIGHTON PRESS The House the Poet Built. 10 hand-tinted etchings by McGraw to accompany the poem by Snodgrass. 246x44 mm; 9 3/4x15 3/4 inches (sheets). Oblong folio, contents loose as issued in fabric clamshell box with etching by McGraw printed on cover. number 15 of only 30 copies signed by mcgraw and snodgrass. San Diego: Brighton Press, 1985
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"In the summer of 1985, painter DeLoss McGraw arrived at the door of poet W. D. Snodgrass's country house near Erieville, New York, bearing a mysterious wooden box. The next morning McGraw opened the box to reveal ten prepared etching plates neatly separated to protect their surface. He proposed that W. D. write a short phrase at the top of each plate and McGraw would respond with an image underneath. The artist suggested that these ten phrases might become a poem. What happened as a result is a delightful and very personal retelling of 'The House that Jack Built' in which the poet becomes the 'daft old bard' and finds himself at the center of a whirring menagerie. McGraw's sensitive images perfectly capture the wondrous activity around the poet's house"--from the Brighton Press web site.