The Temple of Flora

This volume is modeled on TEMPLE OF FLORA by Dr. Robert John Thorton, a sumptuous 1807 publication with color mezzotint flower illustrations accompanying poetry and botanical and philosophical commentaries. Dine's prints face poems by John Ashbery, Hart Crane, Robert Graves, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound and others. Dine drew on the plates with nails, scrapers, sandpaper, wire brushes, electric tools, and occasionally scraped them on the limestone floor of the Atelier Crommelynck, Paris, where Dine created the drypoints and had them proofed The Toledo Museum of Art also owns Jim Dine's large bronze sculpture THE CROMMELYNCK GATE WITH TOOLS, 1983 (acc. no. 84.77), which represents the actual gate to the Crommelynck Studio.