Maquette for a portfolio for Editions Alecto, [ca. 1968].

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Maquette for a portfolio for Editions Alecto, [ca. 1968].

Maquette for a portfolio comprises 66 prints on 62 sheets, one blank sheet, two sheets with drawings, three resin sculptures, three sound recordings, and a folding box covered in synthetic grass and lined in vinyl. The prints include sixteen etchings of semiabstract vegetable forms and anatomical shapes, two lithograph impressions of a rainbow, a group of eight photomechanical prints on vinyl sheets depicting enlarged reproductions of titled postcards, 29 sheets with relief letters presenting free-verse text beginning with the title print Overnight holiday speech, eight impressions of relief letters with the free-verse text These peopled feelings and zingers passing thru my body on this voyage up the Ohio, and one photomechanical print entitled Alphabet made by a 6 year old boy, named Matt, who at the time had only one eye. The prints also include two double-page pairs of offset photographic layout designs with two matching sheets of annotated preparatory drawings.

76 items (10 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8241431

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Dine, Jim, 1935-....

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Jim Dine (1935- ) is a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jim Dine, 1965 Feb. 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 435526893 Painter, sculptor (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Jim Dine interview, 1965 Feb. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181821 ...

Editions Alecto Ltd.

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