Frost & Lankes

In January of 1923, the editor of The Century Magazine invited Robert Frost (class of 1896) to name his own illustrator for his poem "The star- Splitter," which the magazine planned to publish later that year. Frost chose a little- known artist named J.J. LanKes, whose wood- cuts of,rural images and lands capes had earlier caught Frost's eye. The decision would prove momentous: the art of the two men would befcomc almost inseparable over the next 15 years, anda close friendship would last until Lankes's lustrate nine Frost titles and dozens of greetings cards, book plates, posters, arid promotions. "Such a coincidence of taste can never be forgotten," Frost wrote to Lankes early in their collaborarion. A new title published under Dartmouth's Book Arts Program, Riders on Pegasus by Welford Dunaway Taylor, is a gorgeous testament to the long and fruitful alliance.'Copies are available for $45 from of the Libarian, 115 Bakfer Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755.