Harvard Art Museums > M24342.B: The Backs Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Backs (Reagan Upshaw) , M24342.B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/187254. Identification and Creation Object Number M24342.B People Reagan Upshaw, American (active 20th c.) Title The Backs Other Titles Series/Book Title: Latitude/The Backs Classification Prints Work Type portfolio Date 1993 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/187254 Physical Descriptions Technique Photolithograph Dimensions cover: 11.2 x 16.7 cm (4 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Segura Publishing Company, Inc., Tempe, Arizona], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, February 8, 2000. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund Accession Year 2000 Object Number M24342.B Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Related Works M24342 Reagan Upshaw Latitude/The Backs Prints M24342.B.10 Reagan Upshaw "Now I seek a channel round and out into the sea." Prints M24342.B.11 Reagan Upshaw "It is time. Man falls in how many senses?" Prints M24342.B.1 Reagan Upshaw "It was going to be witty, Buzz, starting with a pun on 'falls,'" Prints M24342.B.2 Reagan Upshaw "proceeding into appropriation: other poets on the sea, etc." Prints M24342.B.3 Reagan Upshaw "But on days like this, I feel the periscope's crosshairs," Prints M24342.B.4 Reagan Upshaw "and feelings tumble inchoate. Forget the waves of pathetic fallacy," Prints M24342.B.5 Reagan Upshaw "these waves petrify, four times removed from their source," Prints M24342.B.6 Reagan Upshaw "and this cloudy ball, 'only a paper moon,' sheds no light." Prints M24342.B.9 Reagan Upshaw "The dark weight that squats stubbornly on my landscape -- I've tried for so long to grind it away." Prints M24342.B.7 Reagan Upshaw "Picasso painted here: how create with that knowledge? Paralysis, failure," Prints M24342.B.8 Reagan Upshaw "broken ambition flotsam on the beach." Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu