Elegy on Toy Piano / Dean Young

Elegy on Toy Piano / Dean Young

Broadsides

FA.FFS16.3152
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, an orange outline of a four-legged animal is leaping over a blue rounded surface, the image has been drawn with colored pencil. 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 Shari DeGraw at the Center for Book Arts in New York 2003." CBA has two copies, this is CBA copy 1.