{"product_id":"24944-brainard-joe-bidart-frank-two-pottery-bowls-including-one-inscribed-to-frank-bidart","title":"Brainard, Joe. (1941 - 1994) [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] Two Pottery Bowls, including one INSCRIBED TO FRANK BIDART","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn original pottery bowl by Joe Brainard, inscribed to the base within the glaze to \u003c\/span\u003eone of his closest friends and associates, the important American poet Frank Bidart:\u003cspan\u003e \"To Frank \/ Joe \/ 1976.\" Interior of purple, brown and gray smooth glazed marble design, with exterior textured brown, smooth glazed white base. Rare. We have traced no other examples of Brainard's pottery ever having appeared on the market. Sold together with a complementary ca. 1970s slipware style dish on which the Brainard work was displayed and which was apparently a gift from Brainard to Bidart. Bowl diameter 5.5 inches (14 cm); dish 8.75 inches (22 cm) diameter. A few nicks to bowl edges, overall fine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFrank Bidart r\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeceived the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2018 \u003c\/span\u003ePulitzer Prize for Poetry, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGriffin Poetry Prize\u003cspan\u003e Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 \u003c\/span\u003eNational Book Award\u003cspan\u003e for Poetry for his book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. \u003c\/i\u003ePerhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, \"The Second Hour of the Night,\" is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. \"The relationship was,\" as Bidart has said, both \"more than friendship and less than a romance.\" His \"In Memory of Joe Brainard\" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Arkansas in 1942 and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Brainard moved to New York City in late 1960. A writer and an artist, he became associated with the New York School circle of poets. His work has been included in a number of gallery and museum exhibition across the United States such as MoMA P.S.1 and the Berkeley Art Museum and is in many notable private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Colby College Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.  He published more than a dozen books, including the prose-poem memoir series I Remember (1975) and The Nancy Book (2008), also providing illustrations and cover art for fellow poets in his circle. One of Brainard’s most frequent collaborators was his longtime partner, the writer Kenward Elmslie.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62565836226719,"sku":"24944","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Brainard_Bidart_TwoPotteryBowls24944a_d07efd66-0c20-4105-bb98-e3ddfd855462.jpg?v=1762456587","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/24944-brainard-joe-bidart-frank-two-pottery-bowls-including-one-inscribed-to-frank-bidart","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}