The second issue of Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin’s quarterly “little magazine” of art and literature, published in the summer of 1946 by the Iconograph Press. Beaudoin (1913-95) was an American anthropologist, poet, and editor with a special interest in Native American folk literature. During a sojourn in New York City he founded and ran Iconograph magazine in conjunction with an art gallery he also founded (Gallery Neuf). Central to both the magazine and the gallery were the so-called Indian Space Painters, participants in a short-lived postwar modernist art movement that drew inspiration from Native American (especially Pacific Northwest) iconography along with Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. 8vo (8.5” x 11”), pictorial wrappers, 29 pages on multiple paper stocks, b/w illustrations. Features an article by Beaudoin about “Young Female Painters” including Sonja Sekula, Ruth Lewin, Gertrude Barrer, Nell Blaine, Ruby Barco and Ruth Dennis. With contributions from Gertrude Barrer, Oscar Collier, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Alfred Russell, and Judson Crews, and art direction by August Mosca. Sources indicate that Beaudoin himself was involved in only four issues of Iconograph, plus a supplement, all published in 1946-47. Now obscure, both the magazine and its founder are ripe for rediscovery. As noted in a recent article by Andrew Ross, “How did it happen that a poet once championed and mentored by William Carlos Williams is now forgotten and entirely out of print? How did it happen that a poet who was read deeply by e.e. cummings, who corresponded with Ezra Pound and Randall Jarrell and countless other lesser-known lights, has barely emerged as a footnote in American letters? Similarly, how is it not better known that Beaudoin, first in New Orleans’ French Quarter, then as a gallerist and editor in New York City, led a brief but very real charge to reshape his generation’s conceptions of art and literature?” HIGHLY SCARCE and fragile. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears along spine. Pronounced creasing across front wrapper, with small open tears to edges, and 2” closed tear to bottom corner. 1” open tear to bottom corner of first leaf; small closed tear to next three leaves. Contents otherwise clean and bright
The second issue of Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin’s quarterly “little magazine” of art and literature, published in the summer of 1946 by the Iconograph Press. Beaudoin (1913-95) was an American anthropologist, poet, and editor with a special interest in Native American folk literature. During a sojourn in New York City he founded and ran Iconograph magazine in conjunction with an art gallery he also founded (Gallery Neuf). Central to both the magazine and the gallery were the so-called Indian Space Painters, participants in a short-lived postwar modernist art movement that drew inspiration from Native American (especially Pacific Northwest) iconography along with Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. 8vo (8.5” x 11”), pictorial wrappers, 29 pages on multiple paper stocks, b/w illustrations. Features an article by Beaudoin about “Young Female Painters” including Sonja Sekula, Ruth Lewin, Gertrude Barrer, Nell Blaine, Ruby Barco and Ruth Dennis. With contributions from Gertrude Barrer, Oscar Collier, Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Alfred Russell, and Judson Crews, and art direction by August Mosca. Sources indicate that Beaudoin himself was involved in only four issues of Iconograph, plus a supplement, all published in 1946-47. Now obscure, both the magazine and its founder are ripe for rediscovery. As noted in a recent article by Andrew Ross, “How did it happen that a poet once championed and mentored by William Carlos Williams is now forgotten and entirely out of print? How did it happen that a poet who was read deeply by e.e. cummings, who corresponded with Ezra Pound and Randall Jarrell and countless other lesser-known lights, has barely emerged as a footnote in American letters? Similarly, how is it not better known that Beaudoin, first in New Orleans’ French Quarter, then as a gallerist and editor in New York City, led a brief but very real charge to reshape his generation’s conceptions of art and literature?” HIGHLY SCARCE and fragile. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with small closed tears along spine. Pronounced creasing across front wrapper, with small open tears to edges, and 2” closed tear to bottom corner. 1” open tear to bottom corner of first leaf; small closed tear to next three leaves. Contents otherwise clean and bright
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