Lithographs

  • N.p., n.d. [ca 1969]
By TROMPETTER, Jack
N.p., n.d. [ca 1969]. Quarto (32cm). Printed card portfolio holding thirty loose black-and-white plates (offset lithographs) on good paper. Slight cover soil; contents clean and apparently complete; Near Fine overall.

A rather enigmatic art portfolio, produced around 1969 by Massachusetts artist Jack Trompetter. Trompetter, born to Jewish parents in Amsterdam in 1942, is best-known for the striking cover art for the 1972 album "I Sing The Body Electric" by American jazz-rock fusion ensemble Weather Report. He has continued to produce artwork, much of it reflecting on current events and his childhood as a holocaust survivor. But this album of compelling, politically-themed pop-psychedelic lithographs, published we think around 1969 (when most of the pieces are dated) without a title page or introduction, appears to be a ghost: we can trace no copies in commerce, and it is entirely absent from OCLC catalogs.

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