Antique Rose

In 1971 Reis & Manwaring were selected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a poster announcing an exhibition of the Gertrude Stein Family Collection. Reis created the graphite and pencil illustration of a rose as a reference to Gertrude Stein’s famous quotation, “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” For the poster, the rose was lithographically colored. Reis stored the original drawing in a file drawer. Years later, he discovered that rubber cement, used to adhere the drawing to paper during the poster “paste-up” composition, had discolored the paper. The unanticipated sepia tones that emerged with the passage of time lend a serendipitous antique quality to the rose.

Signed giclée print reproduced from the original art.

14" x 14” image centered on white heavy-weight archival stock.