CREELEY, Robert, (American, 1926-2005): Color marker drawing of Gertrude Stein, with a copy of a photograph of Stein. During a discussion about Gertrude Stein, I (Robert Plumley) asked him to provide his impression of her from a drawing by Djuna Bames. We sat for nearly two hours at a table where I provided color markers and hand-made paper. He drew her profile (strikingly more aloof than the original by Barnes, and, unlike the original, bloated the flowers, and filled them with red and expanded the flowers to float around her as if on wallpaper. Very Striking: Matted and framed in red wood to match the flowers, overall about 12'' x 8''. Between 1933-56 Creeley was associated with the famous Black Mountain experiment in communal living and learning and edited the defunct but legendary Black Mountain Review, the first literary magazine to recognize in print the Beat writers and to bridge in the final issue the Beats in New York and the writers of the San Francisco Renaissance. People associated with the learning community are world-famous, Wm. De Kooning, Robert Rauchenberg, Buckminster Fuller.... Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-culture, a postwar poetry originating with Pound and Williams. He published more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad. His honors are many, including: The American Academy of Art and Letters, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a National Endowment and Rockefeller Foundation grants. The parchment Gallery commissioned him to provide a poem/drawing combination for limited edition release. It is the one described above. Drawing sight size 11'' x 4 3/4'', framed in red frame, 15'' x 9''. William Crawford Plumley Estate