CUMMINGS, E, E.

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CIOPW. First edition, number 372 of 391 copies signed by the author in watercolour on the title page. This collection of Cumming's drawings and paintings is titled with an acronym of the materials used in their creation: charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolour. Cummings considered his poetry and painting as two sides of the same coin."The subjects here are mostly people important to Cummings - stars such as Charlie Chaplin, as well as his personal friends James Sibley Watson, Scofield Thayer, S.A. Jacobs, Gilbert Seldes, Joe Gould - and also landscapes, nudes (only female), Coney Island, still-lifes, etc. Few of the individual pieces survive as great; but as with any major artist's book, the whole realizes more than the sum of its parts" (Kostelanetz).

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