Original Sketch of "Woman and Fawn"
by CUMMINGS, E.E
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
c. 1921. In the 1920s, E.E. Cummings was a regular contributor of both writing and artwork to The Dial magazine, which was the preeminent Modernist journal of its time, publishing such writers as Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Cocteau, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Ford Madox Ford and such artists as Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse and Kandinsky. Cummings was only 25 years old when his first pieces were accepted for The Dial and, notably, it was the only place where his poems and his artwork were published side by side on a regular basis. The January, 1921 issue had four drawings and a poem ("Puella Mea") by Cummings: this is Cummings' original sketch for one of those drawings, perhaps the most well-known of them, of a fawn on its hind legs, next to a nude woman, beneath a tree. This sketch was used as his pencil transfer, and as such is drawn on both sides of the paper. The final product, which was ink and graphite on paper, is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a bequest of Scofield Thayer, Cummings' friend and mentor and the editor of The Dial. This sketch is on 8-3/8" x 10-7/8" paper, with a 5" x 9" pencil border. Stained and chipped, mostly in the right margin; very good. With a Gotham Book Mart exhibit number (#245) in the upper left hand corner, where a chip is pending. A copy of The Dial, Vol. LXX, No 1 [NY: Dial, 1921], with the published drawing is included and is near fine with a small spine nick and the usual wear to the yapped edges. An iconic image in its very first incarnation. No Binding. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029650
- Title
- Original Sketch of "Woman and Fawn"
- Author
- CUMMINGS, E.E
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Date Published
- c. 1921
Terms of Sale
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
About the Seller
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Hadley, Massachusetts
About Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issue catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the Vietnam War and the 1960s, and Nature Writing. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. We maintain an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. We are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of our areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to us.
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