Description

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This selection of 26 postcards features pastels from Rita Blitt’s 1984 Li Po Series. Li Po was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty whose poems document his journeys sailing the Yangzi River. Each drawing includes the line of poetry that inspired Blitt’s work.

About the Author

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Rita Blitt’s dynamic body of work is distinguished by the sense of joy expressed through her pieces— sculpture, paintings, drawings, video, and more. Her work has been showcased in more than seventy one-person exhibitions and is in many museum and private collections; her sculptures, some of them as tall as sixty feet, can be found throughout the U.S. and in Japan, Singapore, and Australia. Blitt’s work celebrates her love of nature, dance, and music, and is noteworthy for its ability to visually communicate the energy of movement and sound. Rita Blitt divides her time between Kansas City and San Francisco, where her daughter and granddaughter live.