Letterio Calapai (1902–1993)

Untitled ["...The picture of flashing field.."]

n.d.

text and border etching in brick red ink on cream Japanese paper

paper: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; overall plate size: 11 x 6 3/4; plate size for wood engraving in black ink/white background with “The picture of flashing field” print : 3 3/8 x 4 ¾; plate size for text: 5 1/2 x 5

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Dr. Kathryn L. Francis, 2017

text: “The picture of flashing field, of wood, / and hill, stayed in his heart for- / ever: / lost in the dark land, he lay the /night-long through within his / berth, watching the shadowy South / flash by,.. / or seeing, in pale dawn, the phan- / tom woods, a rutted lane, a cow, / a boy, a drab, dull-eyed against / a cottage door, glimpsed, at this mo- / ment of rushing time, for which all / life had been aplot, to flash upon the / window and be gone.” Inscribed “©” bottom left in plate; “Artist’s proof” bottom left below plate; “L. Calapai —” bottom right below plate; “(6)” bottom right corner of paper