Art
"e.e. cummings" by David Schorr
- Item Number
- 106
- Estimated Value
- 1000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 700 USD
Item Description
This portrait of poet e. e. cummings (1894 - 1962) is part of a series of engravings entitled Unconstraining Voices which depicts over sixty writers. They are permanently installed at Wesleyan’s Shapiro Creative Writing Center where Professor Schorr recently donated the last full set of these engravings. Yale University Art Gallery also holds a complete set of Unconstraining Voices.
David Schorr is a printmaker, painter, and illustrator and Professor of Art at Wesleyan University since 1971 where he has taught printmaking, drawing, typography, book design, graphic design, and calligraphy. Schorr has been a Fulbright Scholar three times, to Italy in 1975, where he worked at the Calcografia Nazionale and to India in 1998 and 2001. He continued to go to India for many years where he was adjunct professor at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. He has also been a fellow a number of times at Tamarind Institute (America's foremost shop of fine arts lithography).
His work is represented by Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City. His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fogg Museum (Harvard), The New York Public Library, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. In addition he has had solo shows in Chicago, Milan, Rome, Naples, Paris, Athens, Toronto, Montreal and Copenhagen. His work has been reproduced extensively in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and most significantly in The New Republic, for which he has done over three hundred portraits. Schorr has illustrated numerous books, among them Parallel Lives by Wesleyan author Phyllis Rose and four volumes of the fables of La Fontaine and a collection from Baudelaire translated by Wesleyan Professor Norman Shapiro.
For more information: http://www.davidschorr.com
Item Special Note
Title: e. e. cummings (20/50, part of series “Unconstraining Voices”)
Artist: David Schorr
Date: 1975
Format: Zinc plate engraving, framed
Size: 5.75 x 5.75 (image), 13.75 x 11.75 (frame)
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