Fall 1961" [Portfolio of Artworks]

[Roosevelt, NJ]: New Jersey Volunteers for McCarthy, 1968. First, Limited Edition. No. 201 of 250 copies issued. Black cloth portfolio, 45cm x 34cm, containing a broadside poem and 14 pencil-signed lithographic plates by New Jersey artists. Printed by Pearl Seligman on Rives Heavyweight. Minor soil, with pronounced toning to the cover sheet (which prints the Lowell poem) from contact with the portfolio flaps; a few faint spots of foxing to the final plate (George Segal); remaining contents complete and fine. Features a broadside of Lowell's poem "Fall 1961" and 14 pencil-signed lithographs by the following New Jersey artists: Richard Anuskiewicz, Carmen (truncated) Cicero, Leo Dee, Joseph Demarais, John Goodyear, James Kearns, Jacob Landau, Stefan Martin, George Ortiman, Pat Pickering, Gregorio Prestopino, Jean Schonwalter, George Segal and Herbert Steinberg. According to the colophon, the portfolio was issued in response to "the challenge presented to the American political system by Senator Eugene McCarthy during the presidential campaign of 1968." Though not indicated, this copy from the studio of contributing artist Gregorio Prestopino; a fair number of the artists represented here, including Landau, Segal, and the printer Pearl Seligstein were neighbors of Prestopino in the progressive planned community of Roosevelt, New Jersey. A scarce item; OCLC finds only two locations (Harvard & Princeton); none others found in commerce. (Inventory #: 82867)