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

Date1984

DimensionsBox: 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).

MediumOriginal 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.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.389

Not on View

Label TextThis 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.Published Referencescf. D’Oench, Ellen G., Jean E. Feinberg, Jim Dine Prints, 1977--1985, New York, 1986, no. 177, reprs.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 22.

Toledo Museum of Art, Classical Inspirations, 1995

Toledo Museum of Art, Jim Dine: Past, Present, and Future, July 28-October 8, 2000.

TMA, Paper Roses: Garden-Inspired Works on Paper. Feb. 21-May 18, 2014.