He who Binds to Himself a Joy.
2016. San Francisco: 2016.
8.5 x 11 ins. Full color print of calligraphed manuscript in several colors and heightened with gold,
numbered 5/25, signed and dated. Fine.
§ § Number 5 of 25 prints of Ingmire’s presentation of Blake’s famous aphorism, taken from Blake’s Auguries of Innocence: “He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But
he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sun rise.”
Thomas Ingmire (San Francisco) was the first American to be elected a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. A vivid expression of the modern calligraphy movement, his work can be found in public and private collections around the world; it is the subject of Michael Gullick's Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire (1989) and codici 1: a teacher's notebook on modern calligraphy & lettering art (2003). His teaching experience and influence extends throughout the United States to Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. His first commission in 1972 was from John Windle for a book of Blake’s Poems. Item #107816
Price: $100.00