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Visual Adaptations of Poetry — Collection Theme

Curated by David Choberka

Group Details:

Objects in UMMA’s collection related to the theme of Visual Adaptations of Poetry.

Winter in Ann Arbor
2002
Khaled Al-Saa'i
natural ink, tempera and gouache on paper
We wanted to bleed with silence
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
She fled along the avenue
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Oh Helen, I roam my room
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
White Poem Figure (The Soul Has Moments of Escape)
1994
Lesley Dill
unique gelatin silver print on paper
Yatsuhashi (iris and haiku poem)
1st half of 18th century
Sakaki Hyakusen
hanging scroll, ink on paper
scripted
1997
Ann Hamilton
gold thimble, silver thimble, horsehair, wood and glass
Pair of Mandarin Ducks (Scroll)
circa 1920
Wang Mengbai
ink and color on paper on mounted on scroll
Persian poetry anthology manuscript page
17th century
Iranian
ink, color and gold on paper
And I am alone in my house
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Ah! This life is so everyday
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Oh! if one of Them, some fine evening, would try
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front)
1994
Roni Horn
cast plastic and aluminum
Auden Poems/Moore Lithographs: Selections from Poems by Auden/Lithographs by Henry Moore
1973
Henry Moore; Wystan H. Auden; Stanley Jones; Eric Ayers; Vivian Ridler; J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich ; Petersburg Press
lithographs on Hodgkinson paper, in linen book and box
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Fish
1920-1949
Qi Baishi
ink on paper
Watching Geese
last quarter of 20th century
Chang Ku-nien
hanging scroll, ink on paper
Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series
circa 1630
Indian
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
And, with my eyes bolting toward the unconscious
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Sunrise at Benten Shrine, Suzaki Cape
1800-1820
Katsushika Hokusai
koban surimono (privately published) color woodblock print (nishiki e) on paper
My life inspires so many desires
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
I’ll take my life monotonous
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Crying to the walls: My God! My God! will she relent?
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Making circles on park lagoons
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Along a twilighted sky
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Thus, she would come, escaped, half-dead to my door
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
She’ll have forgotten her scarf
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
All the benches are wet, the woods are so rusty
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Curtains drawn back from balconies of shores
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
You’ll be sick if you spend all your time indoors
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
I’ve only the friendship of hotel rooms
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Ah! Storm clouds rushed from the Channel coasts
1973
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
screenprint on paper
Triple V (To illustrate poem: ‘Complaint for a sorcerer’)
March 1943
David Hare; Suzy Hare
pen and ink on paper
Faramurz taken Prisoner, Shah-nameh of Ferdowski
17th century
Iranian
tempera on paper
Mountain Studio
1661
Kuncan
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Side 1: Landscape in Blue and Green Style by Ch’i Hu; Side 2: Calligraphy
1909
Hu Jiyi ; Zhu Zumou (Chu Tsu-mou)
folding fan, ink and color on paper
I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
1965
Ben Shahn
white and black silkscreen lettering and watercolor wash on paper
Untitled
1990
Kids of Survival; Tim Rollins
ink and watercolor on paper

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