Poem Line

Artist Pat Steir (American, born 1938)

Publisher Landfall Press, Inc., Chicago, 1976

Printer [Timothy Berry, s.l.]

Date1976

DimensionsEnvelope: H: 6 in. (152 mm); W: 6 in. (152 mm); Depth: 1/4 in. (6 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 5 drypoints in sepia on ivory wove paper handmade at Twinrocker Mill.

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.957A-E

Not on View

Label TextIn these five prints, titled POEM LINE, WRITTEN LINE, DOT LINE, LINE WITH LINE, BORDER LINE, words become the picture, and the linear marks become a form of visual poetry.Published ReferencesBroun, Elizabeth, Form, Illusion, Myth: Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 1983.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 78

Toledo Museum of Art, Images from America, Sept.19-Oct. 27, 1995.