Voyages: Six Poems by Hart Crane

Artist Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000)

Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957 (Monroe Wheeler)

Printer Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts (Leonard Baskin and Harold P. McGrath)

Author Hart Crane (American, 1899-1932)

Date1957

DimensionsPortfolio: H: 10 in. (254 mm); W: 115 in. (2921 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Book: H: 9 5/8 in. (245 mm); W: 11 1/4 in. (286 mm); Depth: 1/16 in. (2 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 9 7/16 in. (240 mm); W: 10 7/8 in. (277 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 7 wood engravings from boxwood blocks in black or red on Amalfi gray laid paper, and in green or black on translucent mending tissue; plus 1 woodcut from a cherry block in black on Moriki green wove paper. Text: letterpress in green, red, and black on Amalfi gray laid paper (typeface: Perpetua)

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.240

Not on View

Published Referencescf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1994, p. 204, repr.

cf. Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 13

cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 4.