Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Single Sheet of White Paper with Text in Faint Black Ink and Stars on a Few Letters
View through Harvard Museums
Hand-drawn arrow in same black ink runs from the two question marks after "Perhaps Perhaps" down to the mechanical stamp at bottom. Bottom center: Rectangular mechanical stamp reads: ñ That blake's famous line about finding "eternity in a grain of sand" is literally true, for the tiniest grain of sand is almost indestructible ñ when wet, it keeps a film of water about itself by capillary action and even a heavy surf cannot cause one sand grain to rub against another. Letter text: M. Im [sic] very delighted with what / I hear of Konrad Q [might also be an O, difficult to tell due to placement of star] "He's the world's leading expert on a pencil / Line " Perhaps Perhaps ?? / P.S. I also hear he is / Great without trying / a very good complement J.L.B.
Rights: © The Estate of James Lee Byars / Michael Werner Gallery
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art
James Lee Byars; to Busch-Reisinger Museum transfer; to Harvard University Art Museums 2003.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Transfer from the Busch-Reisinger Museum Archives
Title: Single Sheet of White Paper with Text in Faint Black Ink and Stars on a Few Letters
Description:
Hand-drawn arrow in same black ink runs from the two question marks after "Perhaps Perhaps" down to the mechanical stamp at bottom.
Bottom center: Rectangular mechanical stamp reads: ñ That blake's famous line about finding "eternity in a grain of sand" is literally true, for the tiniest grain of sand is almost indestructible ñ when wet, it keeps a film of water about itself by capillary action and even a heavy surf cannot cause one sand grain to rub against another.
Letter text: M.
Im [sic] very delighted with what / I hear of Konrad Q [might also be an O, difficult to tell due to placement of star] "He's the world's leading expert on a pencil / Line " Perhaps Perhaps ?? / P.
S.
I also hear he is / Great without trying / a very good complement J.
L.
B.
Related Results
Album of Drawings
Album of Drawings
1) Pen and brown ink brush and gray wash.
2) Pen and brown ink over black chalk.
3)
4) Black chalk.
5) Pen and brown ink over black chalk.
6) Pen and br...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with blue- and black-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.6 x 21.6 cm. Each sheet numbered on verso at l.l. Drawin...
Fickur med châtelaine samt etui
Fickur med châtelaine samt etui
Of gold with enamel, miniature painting, oriental pearls and jargons, dial of enamel, works with s. k. spider canal. Bottom shell convex. On this in cover enamel a figure scene in ...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Shadow Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Shadow Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is as much a play with splashed ink as it is a work of calligraphy. It features three large splashes of very black ink, on...
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Shadow Script and Black-on-Black Script
Post-Marijuana (Dama zhi hou), Written in Shadow Script and Black-on-Black Script
This large, horizontally oriented, rectangular album leaf is divided visually into two parts, the right one-third, in which the characters appear a ghostly grayish white on a black...
South Italian Red-figure Fish Plate
South Italian Red-figure Fish Plate
Campanian red-figured fish plate with low stem and broad, molded foot. Broad, shallow bowl with a central depression. Thick, curved rim, downturned beyond vertical.
Pale orangis...
Papers
13 ink on paper drawings
2 letters
1 ink on paper illustrated poem
5 ink on paper postcards
5 ink on paper envelopes
1 ink on paper poem on Hunter student card
Papers
13 ink on paper drawings
2 letters
1 ink on paper illustrated poem
5 ink on paper postcards
5 ink on paper envelopes
1 ink on paper poem on Hunter student card
Black pen and ink on 16 papers ; Black pen and ink on printed punched paper ; Black pen and ink and relief printed black ink on 5 printed papers with traces of graphite and blue i...


