Haim Mendelson
American, born Poland, born 1923Epitaph for Sid Hammer, 1973
Not on view
Etching, aquatint and pastel on paper
Dimensions22 1/4 × 27 5/8 in. (56.5 × 70.2 cm)
Image: 16 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (41.9 × 55.2 cm)
Gift of Mr. Jack B. Pierson, 1987.11.1
An Epitaph
One day
Glancing eastward on a soft September morning
Just before the end of leaf-fall
I shall open out of season
Like a glory in the green-grey morning
And take the landscape into me.
Shimmering, mist-like
Through the last pale leaves of yellow aspen
I shall settle in the valley
Seeming there
A lake among trees.
Sid Hammer
A New York etcher and engraver, Haim Mendelson was mainly self-taught. He began exhibiting in Manhattan galleries around 1950 and during the following years his dry-point engravings and etchings appeared in Newark, Providence, Boston and Philadelphia.
