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Oh God, Make Me Find A Style, 1983

  • Lucio Pozzi, American, born 1935

Color offset lithograph on white wove paper

  • Sheet: 27 1/4 × 19 1/8 inches (69.2 × 48.6 cm)

Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz

F1987.51.4

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Pozzi

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 6/95 Inscribed, with date of original drawing, in pencil, lower right: 78 Inscribed, in artist's hand, on plate, center: Oh God, make me find a style | I can't find a style | an original style. Oh God: make me find one. | The critics are confounded | and my mind is all so blinded. | I roam the fancy and break my head | but no style seems | to lie ahead. | Now I'm going to go down in History | as an uncertain creep | while all the others sell | and sharpen their beeb. | Why can't I be original? | Why can't I be clear-cut? | I'm always so subliminal | and all I do is doubt

Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck

1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lucio Pozzi, Oh God, Make Me Find A Style, 1983, color offset lithograph on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz, F1987.51.4.