Inner folder, from Stones

Prints and Drawings

1957–60

Larry Rivers (American, 1923-2002)
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)

The portfolio Stones is a record of two friends working side-by-side over the course of two years. As this was Tatyana Grosman’s first book venture, she commissioned handmade paper for the lithographs, but for the inner folder she asked Douglass Howell to make a special denim paper to celebrate Larry Rivers and his collaborator, poet Frank O’Hara, both of whom always worked in blue jeans. In fulfilling her request, Howell in part used cuttings from their jeans for the paper pulp.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Larry Rivers
Title: Inner folder, from Stones
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1957–1960
Medium: Oil on denim paper
Dimensions: Folded sheet: 54 × 64.6 cm (21 5/16 × 25 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1982.896.16

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