[untitled: pink, yellow, cardboard, butterfly]

Concrete poetry

Visual poetry

Mail art

Correspondence art

Assemblage (sculpture technique)

Textile art

Fiberwork

Poetry -- Female authors

American poetry -- 20th century

Painted reconstituted cardboard-like substrate glued to backing of open weave burlap painted brown and curled at edges. thin lace is glued to top layer with gold and pink threads tied through substrate held with beads on verso and long ends 2-5 inches loose on recto. Leaves and petals glued to top of lace. Plastic butterfly, plastic pearls, lace, and sticks, collaged thickly with glue and paint to form body of butterfly. Two black threads tied to head corners in a loop for hanging.

Etlinger, Amelia, 1933-1987

Amelia Etlinger Collection (PCMS-0060)

Poetry Collection Manuscripts (State University of New York at Buffalo)

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

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State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection.

Copyright the Estate of Amelia Etlinger and used with permission. For more information contact the Poetry Collection at lpo-poetry@buffalo.edu.

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Physical Object

Still Image

PCMS-0060_24_71

Clifton Park, New York

1970 - 1986

2015-10-05

Collection open for research.

Amelia Etlinger Collection (LIB-PC010)

1 image

cardboard, burlap, paint, thread, lace, costume jewelry

Sent to, and donated to the Poetry Collection by Ellen Marie Helinka.

Estate of Amelia Etlinger

fiber art

assemblage

19 x 15 inches