Invitation to a So-Called Tea
Rockwell Kent, American, 1882 - 1971
1930
Photomechanical metal relief print and color linocut with letterpress text on cream wove paper
400 (All 400 copies carry the wording "LIMITED TO 99 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 1)
Overall: 11 1/2 × 8 1/8 in. (29.2 × 20.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Douglas Ross
PR.976.279
Printer
Elmer Adler, Pynson Printers, New York, New York
Publisher
Random House, New York, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in red, within mortised area of the plate: BENNETT CERF / DONALD KLOPFER / HAVE THE HONOR TO INVITE YOU / TO A SO-CALLED TEA / OR INSPIRATIONAL ORGY / FOR THE SPIRITUAL BENEFIT / OF / ROCKWELL KENT / FRIDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-FOURTH / FROM FIVE O'CLOCK TO ELEVEN / RANDOM HOUSE / 20 EAST FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET / R.S.V.P. / THIS EDITION, PRIVATELY PRINTED, / LIMITED TO 99 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 1 watermark: [Pynson Printers: (figure on horse in square(?))]
Provenance
Douglas Carroll Ross (1930-1978), Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1976.
Catalogue Raisonne
Dan Burne Jones, The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1975, no. 50.
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