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Aids Crisis: Funeral Blues

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David Schorr
Aids Crisis: Funeral Blues
Etching in gray ink with letterpress on brown paper.
8 3/4 x 10 inches (22.3 x 25.4 cm)
Gift of the estate of David Schorr.
2023.42
Notes
Edition 2 of 10, signed. Colophon 9 x 10 inches.
Bottom text reads: "These four plates were engraved by David Schorr with typographic elements by Ken Botnick. Conceived and printed at Penland in the summer and fall of 1994, there are ten suites of prints & fifteen broadsides. For Michael Glass."
Note: Background text is from W.H. Auden's Stop the Clocks: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, / Silence the pianos and with muffled drum / Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. / Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead / Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead / Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, / Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. / He was my North, my South, my East, my West, / My working week and my Sunday rest, / My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; / I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. / The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, / Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, / Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; / For nothing now can ever come to any good. --W.H. Auden"
Provenance

Estate of the artist.

Artist
Classification
Century prints