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MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992. KERNAN, NATHAN. Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992. image 1
MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992. KERNAN, NATHAN. Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992. image 2
MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992. KERNAN, NATHAN. Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992. image 3
MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992. KERNAN, NATHAN. Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992. image 4
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MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992.
KERNAN, NATHAN.
Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992.

12 March 2019, 14:00 EDT
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MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992.

KERNAN, NATHAN. Poems. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd, 1992.
Folio (500 x 375 mm). 8 color lithographs on TGL handmade paper. Loose in publisher's original wrappers, handmade from the artist's recycled lithographs, publisher's clamshell box. Slight soiling and wear to clamshell box.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY JOAN MITCHELL AND NATHAN KERNAN, number 62 of 76 copies (of a total edition of 88). One of the most important of the second generation abstract expressionist painters and printmakers, Joan Mitchell produced the work for Poems in the last years of her life. Printed in collaboration with master printer Ken Tyler, Mitchell's lithographs are accompanied by the poetry of her longtime friend Nathan Kernan. In a remembrance of Mitchell, Tyler writes, "...our friendship was very rewarding and I learned a great deal about her life, her art, and her ideas about painting. What she practiced in painting as an 'additive painter' she also practiced in printmaking" ("Joan Mitchell: The Blueness of Blue," 2010).

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