From the Archive: Prometheus in Poetry

August 29, 2019 Irving Kriesberg Estate

Irving Kriesberg, Prometheus, 1978, oil on canvas, 58 x 44 in. Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York — Irving Kriesberg, *Prometheus*, 1978, oil on canvas, 58 x 44 in. Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York

The feminist author, Jane Alpert, was inspired and awestruck seeing the painting Prometheus (1978) by Kriesberg and wrote a poem in response to it. The typewritten poem is titled “On A Painting by Irving Kriesberg” (1978). This post analyzes the painting and features Alpert’s original typewritten poem, which is in the archives of the Irving Kriesberg Estate.