Printed page titled "To years in Rapallo" showing an abstract black ink figure and a handwritten poem.

Fred Becker

To Yeats in Rapallo

1960

Not on view

11 works in the collection
3 exhibitions
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Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and engraving

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (50.5 × 42.9 cm) Plate: 13 7/8 × 11 5/8 in. (35.2 × 29.5 cm)

Accession number
96.198.2

Edition
39/50 | 12 APs

Publication
Printed by Andersen-Lamb Photogravure Corporation; published by Morris Gallery

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/25599

Part of a series:
21 Etchings and Poems
21 works

Handwritten poem beside a dark, abstract horse-like figure in a framed etching.
Handwritten poem page with decorative border and a small black-and-white illustration at the lower left.
Handwritten German poem titled "Gedicht" framed by bold black abstract figures and a signature.
Abstract skull-like etching surrounding a handwritten poem titled "Mind" centered on the page.
Handwritten poem titled "Most Often In The Night" surrounded by dark abstract ink drawings.
Handwritten poem titled "Nostalgia" above abstract black ink shapes on an off-white sheet of paper.
Handwritten poem titled Omega surrounded by dark swirling etched figures and shapes.
A black-and-white etching with French handwritten text and abstract calligraphic shapes on paper.
Stylized black-and-white creature with scribbled background and handwritten French text inside its body.
Abstract black shapes occupy the left side while a handwritten poem appears on the right.

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