Thursday, November 12, 2020

Wallace Berman: Semina No. 1 (1955)

 


I goofed yesterday due to god knows why, but here is Semina No. 1 edited and published by Wallace Berman. The cover is an image of the artist Cameron. Inside in the publication is the drawing by Cameron that led my dad to Jail for a night or so. From the Metropolitan Museum in New York City:

Title:Semina 1
Artist:Wallace Berman (American, Staten Island, New York 1926–1976 Topanga Canyon, California)
Author:Robert Alexander (American, Chicago 1923–1978)
Artist:Charles Brittin (American, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1928–2011)
Artist: Cameron (American, Belle Plain, Iowa 1922–1995 Pasadena, California)
Author:Jean Cocteau (French, Maisons-Laffitte 1889–1963 Milly-la-Forêt)
Author: Hermann Hesse (German, 1877–1962)
Author: Marion Grogan (American (?), active 1950s)
Artist:Walter Hopps (American, Eagle Rock, California 1932–2005)
Author:David Meltzer (American, born Rochester, New York, 1937)
Author: Peder Carr (American (?), active 1950s)
Date:1955
Medium:Mixed media artist’s publication
Dimensions:7 7/16 × 4 in. (18.9 × 10.2 cm)
Classification:Periodicals
Credit Line:Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Funds, 2014
Accession Number:2014.8.1

-Tosh Berman

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/634164

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