RIP John Ashbery (1927-2017) + Portraits of Ashbery by Larry Rivers & Others
John Ashbery by Larry Rivers
John Ashbery, an enigmatic genius of modern poetry whose energy, daring and boundless command of language raised American verse to brilliant and baffling heights, died early Sunday at age 90.
Interview – John Ashbery (Paris Review)
John Ashbery by Jill Krementz
(painting on the wall by Jane Freilicher)
John Ashbery 
Portrait of John Ashbery by Jane Freilicher
Fairefield Porter -Portrait of Schuyler and John Ashbery.. 57-58
Fairefield Porter Respect for Things as they are – (previous post on John Ashbery and Fairefield Porter)
Dan Chiasson (The New Yorker)
His early work was serene and beautiful; he then became rather frantic and trippy. He had a period of majesty unrivalled in recent poetry, stretching from the seventies through the nineties. His last phase was a kind of inventory of his mind, among the most interesting anyone has ever known. His method was to “snip off a length” of his consciousness, he said. It was, in part, a strike against the solemnities of achieved reputation, which confronted him everywhere in the forms of syllabi and colloquia.
Where is Rimbaud? (see a photo of John Ashbery and Rimbaud)
See a mixed media collage by John Ashbery (via Art News obit)