Painted Words: Poets and Painters in Print, 1869 – 1967

Painted Words: Poets and Painters in Print, 1869-1967 showcases three volumes that combine literary and visual art through printmaking. Since the late-nineteenth century, the tradition of peintre-graveur ("painter-engraver") in France imagined printmaking as a natural synthesis of the verbal, visual, and manual arts. The exhibited works, which range from Paris in the 1860s to New York in the 1960s, combine poetry and graphic work to test not only the bounds of each art form, but also the bounds of printmaking itself.

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Alexander Calder, American, 1898-1976
Illustration for an untitled poem from _Paroles Peintes III
_1967, Etching, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Gift of Isabel Ehrlich Goodman and Charles F. Goodman 90.18.38g