Type
InscriptionLocation
Right edgeTranscription
"Forthright work succeeds the strokes of sincere will, blind me in both eyes lest I do ill!"Language
English, ChineseMaterial/Technique
In Artist's HandNotes
Reads "Forthright work succeeds the strokes of sincere will, blind me in both eyes lest I do ill!" In addition, there are six Chinese characters.Type
SignatureLocation
Bottom leftTranscription
Wilder Bentley the Elder
1968Language
EnglishType
InscriptionLocation
Backside of panel to the rightTranscription
"A Note on the Inscription in Ku Wen Characters
Translation (Mod. Wade System)
Kung. 1
Yu. 4
Chang. 2
Jen. 4
Ju. 2
The sense of the first column (transliteration above) is given in the first line of the English couplet (a Taoist saying). The second line thereof is my own.
W.B.
3/5/1968"Language
EnglishMaterial/Technique
In Artist's HandNotes
Translation of Chinese characters on front right of panel.Type
NoteLocation
Backside of center panelTranscription
WINTER ON THE MENDOCINO COAST by Wilder Bentley the Elder Makimono: Sumi-e and Chinese White on Japanese Mould-Made paper, mounted on marine plywood, 1968.
This panorama was occasioned by a rereading of Whitman's "Song of the Redwood Tree" that always re-evokes in me happy recollections of the magnificent coastline between Albion and Anchor Bay,--especially the passage beginning "Along the northern coast,
Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves,
In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country,
With the surge for the bass and accompaniment low and hoarse,..."Language
EnglishMaterial/Technique
Typed
