Elegy on Toy Piano / Dean Young

Elegy on Toy Piano / Dean Young

Broadsides

FA.FFS16.3150
Fine Art Collection
43.5 x 32 cm; 17.125" x 12.625"
2003
Kenneth Koch
Kate Austin, Michelle Thompson, Robert Tofolo, Kristin Adolfson, Miriam Haas, Stephanie Chen, Heidi Neilson, Kyle Browne, Hannah Rapson, Shari DeGraw
Dean Young
New York City
broadsides, colored pencils, letterpress printing, poetry
A letterpress printed broadside of a poem by Dean Young for Kenneth Koch, printed in black and orange. There are three states of illustration to the upper left of the text, in this state, a blue plant-like objects with brown roots, the image has been drawn with colored pencil. This state varies slightly from the other copy of this state, in that there are small boxes drawn to the right of the image. The broadside is signed by the poet, and the colophon reads: "A poem for Kenneth Koch. 100 copies of this broadside were printed by Kate Austin, Michelle Thompson, Robert Tofolo, Kristin Adolfson, Miriam Haas, Stephanie Chen, Heidi Nelson, Kyle Brown, Hannah Rapson, and Share DeGraw at the Center for Book Arts in New York 2003." CBA has two copies, this is CBA copy 1.