Scope and Contents Quinn commenting about his art to Marina Cain from whose gallery this work was purchased states the following. "After having worked with letterforms for a number of years, I started investigating organizational structures and latched on to two things: hiearchy and the space between reading and seeing. The E is simply a way to borrow the organization of a language. In a way, text is cleaned of one single overt meaning and becomes a pure Language. It's just an abstraction. But E? I did notice that it is placed on the top of each seeing-eye chart of every optometrist's office in the United States. And it's the most commonly used letter in the English language...the list goes on." The passage from "Moby Dick" for this piece is taken from Chapter 35, The Mast-Head. The three mast-heads are kept manned from sun-rise to sun- set; the seamen taking their regular turns (as at the helm), and relieving each other every two hours. In the serene weather of the tropics it...

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The cover reproduces an Ad Reinhart drawing entitled, "FoundingFathersFollyDay." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.