print
- Museum number
- 2010,7062.13
- Title
- Object: Yaller Bird
- Description
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Man taking side step; artist proof. 1964
Colour screenprint, photo-screenprint on yellow hand made paper
- Production date
- 1964
- Dimensions
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Height: 640 millimetres
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Width: 510 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Edition of 40. Printed at Kelpra Studio, London.
Illustrated in Kinsman p.22
The subject is the poet Jonathan Williams. 'Yaller Bird' is one of Ezra Pound's 'Confucians'. See Kitaj's commentary in Kinsman, p.22
Label text (facing wall) from: 2013, May-Sept, BM, 'Recent Acquisitions'
This early screenprint is from a gift of almost 300 works on paper by the American artist R.B. Kitaj. The artist had spent most of his working life in London and first visited the Print Room with his wife Sandra Fisher in the mid-1970s .
Before his suicide in 2007, the artist had decided to leave a substantial gift to the British Museum and the works came to the Museum in 2010 from the artist's estate. Kitaj's work was often inspired by literature, here he depicts his friend the poet Jonathan Williams as an aviator and uses a quote from Ezra Pound for the title of the print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013, May-Sept, BM, 'Recent Acquisitions'
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7062.13