The Temple of Flora
Artist: Jim Dine (American, born 1935)
Publisher: Arion Press, San Francisco, 1984 (Andrew Hoyem)
Printer: drypoints: proofed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris; printed at R. E. Townsend, Inc., Georgetown, Massachusetts (Robert Townsend, Robe
Binder: Cardoza James Bindery, San Francisco
Author: Various artists
Date: 1984
Dimensions:
Box: H: 22 1/16 in. (560 mm); W: 15 3/4 in. (400 mm); Depth: 3 3/8 in. (86 mm).
Book: H: 20 7/8 in. (530 mm); W: 14 9/16 in. (370 mm); Depth: 1 9/16 in. (39 mm).
Page: H: 20 7/16 in. (519 mm); W: 14 in. (355 mm).
Medium: Original sculpture: cast relief bonded bronze sculpture (cover).
Original prints: 29 drypoints and engravings (incl. 1 loose, chine collé).
Text: letterpress with a line block reproduction (typeface: Monotype and handset Romulus).
Paper: Rives BFK white wove paper, watermarked.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.389
Label Text:This volume is modeled on TEMPLE OF FLORA by Dr. Robert John Thorton, a sumptuous 1807 publication with color mezzotint flower illustrations accompanying poetry and botanical and philosophical commentaries. Dine's prints face poems by John Ashbery, Hart Crane, Robert Graves, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound and others. Dine drew on the plates with nails, scrapers, sandpaper, wire brushes, electric tools, and occasionally scraped them on the limestone floor of the Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, where Dine created the drypoints and had them proofed The Toledo Museum of Art also owns Jim Dine's large bronze sculpture THE CROMMELYNCK GATE WITH TOOLS, 1983 (acc. no. 84.77), which represents the actual gate to the Crommelynck Studio.
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