 JOHN DONNE
I used to play records when I was working. I happened onto this recording by Christopher Hassall, the English actor, of Donne on one side and Wordsworth on the other. As I listened, those poems literally began taking over my hand, and I began to draw those very romantic, although also somewhat macabre, wash drawings. I began making images to match the poems.
Hearing that marvelous voice, one would understand why I was moved to do the work. It was the music of it, the performance of it, and of course that marvelous combination of courtly and vernacular language. I didn't notice the religious connotations, because his sentiment was so physical.
I was vulnerable to these sonnets because of personal and family travails: my grandmother, mother, daughter and closest friend were all part of this grinding daily responsibility. So these moody drawings, which everybody loved so much, were triggered by anguish as well as love.
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Breake of Day
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LL W/IN IMAGE TITLED: NONE CANCELLATION PROOF ON RIVES BFK
Wayne used a rag soaked in benzene to create the light image out of a dark...
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A Valediction: Of Weeping
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LR W/IN IMAGE TITLED: LL W/IN IMAGE AP - PAGE FORMAT
Wayne's interpretation of the verse shows a woman cradling a man's head, surroun...
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 22.5 X 20 SIGNED: LR W/IN IMAGE TITLED: LL W/IN IMAGE FULL SHEET ON RIVES BFK
This wash lithograph on zinc captures Donne's famed compass image labor...
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Hexastichon Bibliopolae
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LR W/IN IMAGE TITLED: LL W/IN IMAGE CANCELLATION PROOF
Donne, who was ordained at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in 1615 ad became its ...
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The Anniversarie 2
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LL W/IN IMAGE TITLED: COVER E'preuve en cas de malhaus ON RIVES BFK, ARTIST AND PRINTER'S CHOP
One of several images inspired by the text of thi...
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The Apparition
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: OPPOSING PAGE TITLED: COVER UNSIGNED EXHIBITION PROOF ON RIVES BFK
Wayne's first two attempts to make this plate dissatified her. The...
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The Canonization
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LL W/IN IMAGE TITLED: COVER E'preuve en cas de malhaus ON RIVES BFK, ARTIST AND PRINTER'S CHOP
Baskett writes that this was the first...
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The Extasie
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 30 X 22 SIGNED: OPPOSING PAGE TITLED: COVER E'preuve en cas de malhaus NACRE'
This color print, which extends across a double page of the book, deriv...
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The Funerall
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: OPPOSING PAGE TITLED: COVER REPLACEMENT PAGE ON RIVES BFK
For this sepulchral image of a body in a winding sheet, Wayne deliberately ...
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The Good-Morrow
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 22.5 X 20 SIGNED: LR W/IN IMAGE TITLED: LL W/IN IMAGE FULL SHEET ON RIVES BFK
The final stanza of "The Good-Morrow" seems closest to the image:
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The Relique
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: OPPOSING PAGE TITLED: COVER E'preuve en cas de malhaus NACRE'
Thispoem takes the image from "The funerall" and treats it as ...
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The Sunne Rising
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 SIGNED: LL W/IN IMAGE TITLED: COVER E'preuve en cas
de malhaus ON RIVES BFK, ARTIST AND PRINTER'S CHOP
A scattering of sand under a mist of tusche via...
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Twicknam Garden
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 22.5 X 20 SIGNED: LR W/IN IMAGE TITLED: LL W/IN IMAGE PROOF - FULL SHEET
Between 1607 and 1618, Donne's patron, Lucy, Countess of Bedford lived to the southwest of london ...
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Song
YEAR: 1958 SIZE: 15 X 22 X 1 SIGNED: SUITE TITLED: SUITE LIVRE DE ARTISTE
Wayne depicts the well-known first line of the first stanza of this poem.
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