selections from Etruscan Gate A Notebook with Drawings and Watercolours
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Etruscan Gate - A Notebook with Drawings
and Watercolours by Dorothy Shakespear Pound
The Rougement Press, Exeter, 1971. First edition. Edited by Moelwyn Merchant. 43 pages. Based on Dorothy Pound's journal entries from 1909 - 1911, plus additional artwork. |
Hommages—to Vorticism [Page 28]
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The works veer toward abstraction but retain a strong sense of place. |
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Pyrenees,
page 21
"After the first world war we
escaped from London to the S. of France. We had
an introduction to Edmund Dulac and his father
at Toulouse and we explored a number of places
from there, including Mt. Segur and took two
walking tours centred on Brives."
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from: Etruscan
Gate: "Catullus's Villa, Sirmione;
later excavated beneath
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Etruscan
Gate is published in gray tones on gray
paper. But Dellas Henke gives a sense of color
possibilities in his woodcut frontispiece for Forked
Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems,
1985, based
on D. Pound's "Pyrenees". At the end of this page we offer
a few samples of Dorothy Pound's own work in color.
by Dellas Henke,
from Forked Branches, based on "Pyrenees" |
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The journal entry below relates to the poem "Plaint", which D.P. mentions that Ezra wrote for her:
The small drawings above left are by Ezra Pound
The Introduction to the drawings:
but offer examples of Dorothy Pound's use of color.
Dorothy Pound
Watercolour illustration via |
via
http://arttattler.com/archivevorticists.html