MITCHELL, JOAN. 1925-1992; et al.
Abstract Expressionism. New York: Tiber Press, 1960.
4 Volumes. Folio. 16 screenprints (4 prints per book) by artists Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg, Alfred Leslie, and Grace Hartigan, text by John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, respectively Comprising:
1. John Ashbery. The Poems. With 4 prints by Joan Mitchell.
2. Frank O'Hara. Odes. With 4 prints by Michael Goldberg.
3. Kenneth Koch. Permanently. With 4 prints by Alfred Leslie.
4. James Schuyler. Salute. With 4 prints by Grace Hartigan.
Publisher's illustrated boards, cloth slipcase. Very fine, with bright colors and fresh impressions.

LIMITED EDITIONS, each numbered 155 from an edition of 200 copies on wove paper, each volume signed by the poet and the artist. These outstanding post-war American artist's books feature collaborations between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the 20th century, and four important second generation New York School artists. The collaborators 'lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work' (prospectus). The American Livre de Peintre 33 (Mitchell) and 21 (Hartigan); Johnson, Artists' Booksin the Modern Era, 1870-2000, pp 226-227.
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Bright colors, fresh impression, with original cloth slipcase.