Research Catalog

Title

A clown, some colors, a doll, her stories, a song, a moonlit cove / Ann Lauterbach & Ellen Phelan.

Author

Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-

Publication

[New York] : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1996]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Phelan, Ellen, 1943-
• Goodman, Jon
• Pettengill, Peter
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Whitney Museum of American Art. Library Fellows
• Miller, Leslie, 1957- prt
• Grenfell Press. prt

Description

[39] p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm. +

Series Statement

Artists and writers series ; 15

Subject

• Clowns > Poetry
• Dolls > Poetry
• Clowns in art
• Dolls in art

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Dante.

Note

• "The edition numbers 120 copies, including ninety reserved for the artists, printers and members of the Library Fellows"--Colophon.
• "A collaboration between poet Ann Lauterbach and artist Ellen Phelan ... designed and printed by Leslie Miller at The Grenfell Press. The book is set in Dante ... Claudia Cohen boxed and bound the book and the accompanying print"--Colophon.
• Printed on one side of a strip formed from 10 joined sheets folded accordion-style, plus a colophon leaf; colophon leaf is attached to back board.
• Illustrations: 13 photomechanical prints : photogravure, b&w (10), hand col. (3) ; double-page (1), full-page (3) or smaller. "The plates for the thirteen photogravures ... were created by Jon Goodman and printed by Peter Pettengill. Three of these photogravured images were colored by hand by Ellen Phelan with the assistance of Kathy Grove"--Colophon. -- Accompanied by additional hand-colored photogravure, housed separately.
• Binding: Brown cloth boards trimmed in gold Japanese tea-chest paper; issued in a matching brown cloth clamshell case with title blind-embossed on spine. Accompanying print issued in off-white stiff paper portfolio.

Local note

• Spencer Coll. copy is no. 5/120; signed in ink by the poet and in pencil by the artist.
• The accompanying print is numbered 5/120; inscribed "Curtain call" and signed in pencil by the artist. Housed in the Prints and Photographs Study Room.
• Prospectus ([4] p. on sheet folded accordion style) laid in.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1996 04-41

OCLC

NYPG04-B164

Author

Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-

Title

A clown, some colors, a doll, her stories, a song, a moonlit cove / Ann Lauterbach & Ellen Phelan.

Imprint

[New York] : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, [1996]

Series

Artists and writers series ; 15

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 5/120; signed in ink by the poet and in pencil by the artist.

Local Note

The accompanying print is numbered 5/120; inscribed "Curtain call" and signed in pencil by the artist. Housed in the Prints and Photographs Study Room.

Local Note

Prospectus ([4] p. on sheet folded accordion style) laid in.

Added Author

Phelan, Ellen, 1943- Illustrator

Goodman, Jon., platemaker.

Pettengill, Peter, printer of plates.

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Whitney Museum of American Art. Library Fellows.

Miller, Leslie, 1957- Printer

Grenfell Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1996 04-41