Each drawing is affixed to the right hand side of the black paper page. Straus produces a dazzling display of drawings in the spirit of the American abstract expressionist/calligraphic painter, Mark Tobey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this work is the Iris flower and most pages depict drawn abstractions of the flower in gray-black colors. The latter is an unexplained contradiction to the purple colors of the flower. The folder enclosing the pamphlets, pages, and drawings is inserted into an enclosure in the rectangular shaped earthy, ceramic vase which has another round enclosure for an artificial Iris flower with its stem. A polaroid photograph depicts the process of how the drawing was made - by rubbing the flower over paper to form the word "Iris" from its pigments.Also designated No.2/Tome 11 in the series ARTCI-BLE Petits Dictionnaires Portatifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips writes in his brochure dealing with this series of works that he painted small pictures when he had little time while working on the translating and illustrating of Dante's Inferno. It occurred to him that he could recapture the original impression of a larger space "not by making the works bigger but by making the context in which they were to be viewed smaller." He described the small paintings set into miniature gallery walls as "National Gallery of Lilliput." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated Fan Broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hans Platschek made the three abstract expressionist black drawings included in this book. The poster is stored folded within the book. Two additional poster announcements for this book are stored in an unfolded state in a large looseleaf notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hans Platschek made the three abstract expressionist black drawings included in this book. The poster announcements for this book are stored in an unfolded state in a large looseleaf notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Professional papers of Stephen C. Foster, founder and director of Stephen Foster Fine Arts and professor of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. Materials in this collection include correspondence, exhibition materials, publications, teaching materials, ephemera, and audiovisual materials spanning the length of his career from 1972-2018.

The abstract oil painting on brown paper that is collaged onto cover was done by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.