Lithograph on paper
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Twenty Poems by Edwin Muir with twenty one Lithographs by William Johnstone
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-johnstone-1367" aria-label="More by William Johnstone" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Johnstone</a>
Purchased 1981
abstraction
animals: actions
animals: birds
flying
gestural
inscriptions
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
Muir, Edwin
non-representational
poem
swallow
symbols and personifications
text
paper print lithograph
[title not known]
image: 324 × 511 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07542</b> [from] LITHOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM JOHNSTONE WITH POEMS BY EDWIN MUIR 1981 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnstone-title-not-known-p07534" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07534</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnstone-title-not-known-p07554" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07554</span></a>]
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<br/>Each inscribed ‘William Johnstone’ and (on colophon) ‘18’
<br/>Twenty-one lithographs, printed at the Printmakers' Workshop, Edinburgh, published by the artist in an edition of 50, each 12 3/4×20 1/8 (32.5×51)
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>The twenty poems were hand-set and printed letterpress at Pillans and Wilson, Edinburgh; design and typography was by James Gardiner Associates, Edinburgh. Johnstone and Muir were close friends for many years and Johnstone had thought about making a set of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> with Muir's poems for a long time, but when the images were being produced they were, in most cases, drawn very quickly.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-11T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction animals: actions animals: birds flying gestural inscriptions literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) Muir, Edwin non-representational poem swallow symbols and personifications text