Manuscript Scroll, Entitled ?In Tarrytown, July 4, 1971 / A Declaration of Peace?.
Published by N.p., Tarrytown NY, 1971
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Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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This calligraphic and decorated scroll measures 19 x 124 inches and is composed of five sheets of laid paper attached. Calligraphic text with decoration on the margins. A very powerful, yet attractive document.Written much in the style of the Declaration of Independence, this scroll, written by a known author and illustrated by an renown artist, move in an entirely different direction all the while upholding the principles of the US primary document. The time was 1971 and the anger at American involvement in the war in Vietnam was reaching a fever pitch. Marches and demonstrations (not a few of which I was dragged to as a youth) were happening across the country, violence was done to university students. and thousands of deaths were reported weekly on television. It was a great time of togetherness and everyone pitched in. The makers;Robert Andrew Parker; Robert Andrew Parker graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952 after serving in the Army in the 1940s. He moved to New York after he spent a summer at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture studying under Jack Levine. Parker continued to develop his printmaking skills at Atelier 17, an historically important printmaking studio founded by the renowned English painter and printmaker, Stanley William Hayter. Robert Andrew Parker was also chosen in 1952 as the youngest artist to show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the ? Exhibition of American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints ? the exhibition featured Stuart Davis, John Marin, Robert Andrew Parker and Jackson Pollock. John F. Mahoney seems have slipped the bonds of history but he had a excellent writing style. A source document.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Manuscript Scroll, Entitled ?In Tarrytown, July 4, 1971 / A Declaration of Peace?.
- Author
- (VIETNAM WAR-PROTEST) PARKER, Robert Andrew & MAHONY, John F.
- Publisher
- N.p., Tarrytown NY
- Publication year
- 1971
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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