Name/Title
Red BirdEntry/Object ID
1980.16.1Description
1980.16.1.1 - Book cover. Beige canvas cover that fits into a brown cloth covered box. The spine of the beige cover reads "Red Bird / Christopher Logue / John Christie. UF 3-3
Edition of 345. All prints are individually initialed and each book is signed and numbered by the poet and artist. Silkscreen & letterpress.
1980.16.1.2 - Folded page. The outside explains that these are limited to 300 copies, plus 30 artist proofs, and several other copies. This is print 152. Signed by both artists. Inside explains that its copyright 1979, published by Circle Press Publications in Surrey, England, and is on 300 GSM Somerset rag made paper. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-3
1980.16.1.3 - Cover page. "Red Bird / Love Poems by / Christopher Logue. Based on the Spanish of Paublo Neruda / with ten screenprints by / John Christie / Circle Press Publications / 1979". On a glossy paper. 18 x 12 | UF 4-1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 13.5
1980.16.1.4 - Cover page. "Red Bird / Love Poems by / Christopher Logue. Based on the Spanish of Paublo Neruda / with ten screenprints by / John Christie / Circle Press Publications / 1979". On a glossy paper. Copy of 80.11.7.3. 18 x 12 | UF 3-3
1980.16.1.5 - Blank on left side. Green and beige stripped background on the right. Blue square on top with "red" written twice, a red arch, and a black square. Below is a white with three red rectangles, which look like pieces of tape, on the lines. 14.875 x 22 | UF 4-1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.6 - Cream, blank, sheet music. Top in blue "Scattered notes, without sequence, like dreams, like a life all made up of fragments...." Top left, a black stenciled X ,circled. Bottom, two white rectangles on top a large red area. The word "red" is written in blue with a line going to the red area. There are blue splatter drops in the center. Print 152/300. "Notes 1" Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 4-1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 13.5
1980.16.1.7 - Blank on the left. On right, black square at the top with several peach rectangular shapes, like confetti. Red rectangle at an angle connecting to an image at the bottom of a woman's nose and mouth. There is a light green rectangle over the image. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 4- 1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.8 - Left side is a poem that begins "My fingers have crept / down your body's white map / like patient spiders." On the right is a yellow and green background. There are two close up images of a woman's lip on top left; blue arched line on left; and a black rectangle on right with a red and blue striped piece of fabric. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 4- 1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.9 - Titled "IV". A poem that begins "Tonight, I write sadly. Write / for example: Little grasshopper, / shelter from the moonlight frost / in the scarecrow's sleeve; / advising myself." This is followed by two more stanzas. Printed on a glossy paper. 18 x 12 | UF 4- 1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 13.5
1980.16.1.10 - Titled "IV". A poem that begins "Tonight, I write sadly. Write / for example: Little grasshopper, / shelter from the moonlight frost / in the scarecrow's sleeve; / advising myself." This is followed by two more stanzas. Printed on a glossy paper. Copy of 80.11.7.9. 18 x 12 | UF 3-3
1980.16.1.11 - Left side poem that begins "The night, always vast / grows enormous without her." There are four stanzas total. Right side has a green background and is split into three sections. The top and bottom are side views of a face from nose to chin. Top is muted. Middle is a light blue rectangle with a red arch and blue splatter lines. Signed JC in bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 4-1 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.12 - Left side poem that begins "Go, little book, with all your faults, to one / who, sighing as she puts it down, Page 1140 will say: / sometime his thought will permeate my own--/ but not today." Followed by several more stanzas. Right brown
square, looks like corrugated cardboard, with a red line and an x on top. There is also a black and white image of a woman's lips on bottom. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.13 - Left side poem that begins "That you may hear me, my words / narrow occasionally, like gull tracks in the sand." There are three large stanzas total. Right, olive and yellow background. Close up of an eye on top with a red arched line leading to a white square on bottom. Square has an orange stain and an image of lips on the left attached by a red piece of tape. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.14 - Left side poem that begins "Steep gloom among pine trees. / The waves surge, breaking. Slow lights / that interweave. A single bell." Four stanzas total. Right, olive and yellow background. Close up image of two fingers which is on top an orange floral background. It is taped with red tape. There are two brown arches lines and a clip of type in Spanish. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.15 - Left side poem that begins "Drunk as drunk on turpentine / from your open kisses." Three stanzas total. Right, fingers touching lips on top. White area with orange, yellow, and black abstract shapes below. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.16 - Left side poem that begins "Lithe girl; brown girl; / the sun that woos apples / and stiffens the wheat / made your body with joy." Six stanzas total. Right side, pink rectangle with a bird silhouette. Red rectangle with arch below and a piece torn into three with orange at the top and a red line at the bottom. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24
1980.16.1.17 - Diamond patterned background on the left. Print contains: three red circles, two of the same image of a side view of lips which are connected by a red arch, and a black vertical line in the center. Signed JC in the bottom right corner. 14.875 x 22 | UF 3-5 | Matted with Plexi | 20 x 24Collection
Ackerman FoundationAcquisition
Accession
1980.16Acquisition Method
GiftNotes
Gift of Mr. Les Frank (through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation)Dimensions
Dimension Description
Various sizes - See notesDimension Notes
1980.16.1.2 -14.875" x 22"
1980.16.1.3 -18" x 12", 20" x 13.5" matted
1980.16.1.4 - 18" x 12"
1980.16.1.5 - 14.75" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.6 -14.875" x 22", 20" x 13.5" matted
1980.16.1.7 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.8 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.9 - 18" x 12", 20" x 13.5" matted
1980.16.1.10 - 18" x 12"
1980.16.1.11 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.12 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.13 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.14 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.15 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.16 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
1980.16.1.17 - 14.875" x 22", 20" x 24" matted
