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An American Portrait 1776-1976

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Image from booklet promoting the album
An American Portrait 1776-1976
Image from booklet promoting the album
Image from booklet promoting the album

An American Portrait 1776-1976

Date1975
Artwork TypePortfolio Summary
Catalogue NumberPOR 34
Dimensionsportfolio: 711 × 540 mm
Ownershipportfolio summary - see individual publications for ownership
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Your/Huddled/Masses/1/An/American/Portrait/1776-1976/Introduction by Muriel Rukeyser/Alex J. Rosenberg, Editor/Carole Halsband, Associate Editor/Published by Transworld Art Corporation, New York [1975]

Published as an album in three parts each in deluxe and standard editions containing a portfolio of ten original prints and one sculpture. CGM 310 appears in Part l, entitled Your Huddled Masses, which also contains an introduction in English by Muriel Rukeyser and literary extracts by John F. Kennedy, Abraham Cahan, Horace Traubel, Jane Addams, William Faulkner, Jacob Riis, Gustavus Vasa, José Martí, Charles Dickens, Gottlieb Mittelberger, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Morris Shloss, O. E. Rölvaag, Stephen Crane, John Wise, Emma Lazarus, Benjamin Franklin and anonymous authors, with one print each by Pierre Alechinsky, Graciela Rodo Boulanger, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Paul Jenkins, Mark Tobey, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Salvador Dali, Nancy Grossman and Henry Moore and one sculpture by Jesus Raphael Soto. The prints in the deluxe edition differ from those in the standard edition by the use of various printing colours or papers. CGM 310 is printed on T.H. Saunders paper in the standard edition and on Arches in the deluxe.

711 x 540mm: 98 unnumbered pages in 24 leaves and 1 sheet of Arches, of which 10 leaves contain the 10 prints, in a square-cut folder of Arches contained in a white leather-covered Solander box with the title blocked in gold on the front and the subtitle with one star on the spine. The portfolio with the sculpture is contained in a white leather-covered presentation case fastened with two metal studs, with the title blocked in gold on the front and the subtitle on the spine. The standard edition is similarly boxed in blue cloth with white blocking.

p. [1] title

p. [2] copyright, imprint

p. [3] publisher's dedication

p. [4] blank

pp.[5-8] introduction

p. [9] text on Jesus Raphael Soto

p. [10] blank

pp.[11-13] text

p. [14] blank

p. [15] text on Henry Moore

p. [16] blank

CGM 310

pp.[17-18] blank

pp.[19-90] text, texts on artists, prints

p. [91] table of art

pp.[93-94] table of literature

p. [95] edition, number

pp.[96-98] blank


The edition of 275 copies, numbered in red ink on p.[95], comprises:

75 copies of the deluxe edition numbered I/L to L/L plus 25 copies which may have been numbered HC 1/25 to 25/25 or EA 1/25 to EA 25/25 or AP 1/25 to AP 25/25, with CGM 310 on T.H. Saunders paper numbered 1/175 to 175/175 and HC I/XXV to HC XXV/XXV

200 copies of the standard edition numbered 1/175 to 175/175 plus 25 copies which may have been numbered as above, with CGM 310 on Arches numbered 1/50 to 50/50 and AP I/XXV to AP XXV/XXV

CGM 310 is signed in pencil by the artist.

Text set in Century Expanded and printed by Imprimerie Union, Paris.

The portfolios and boxes were made by Sloves Organization, New York.

CGM 310 was printed by Curwen Prints Ltd, London.

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