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The correspondence provides an intimate view of the artists' social world. -- American Craft, Apr-May 2006
The witty warm missives in MORE THAN WORDS make one wonder if personal correspondence is in danger of dying today. -- Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2005
These doodles show artists--some well-known, others more obscure--being relaxed and goofy...a testament to family ties and friendship. -- Newsday, Dec 11, 2005
Today, when illustrating a communication...is adding smiley-face emoticons to instant messages...this arrives like a letter from long-lost friend. -- Wall Street Journal, 1/21/2006
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Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. And when the author happens to be a visual artist, the results can be both intimate and transcendent. This book is a testament to those occasions, a compilation of personal letters by some of America's most revered artists, each one adorned with an illustration. Writing to wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants are such revered artists as Frederick Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, John Sloan, Alfred Frueh, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Calder, Gio Ponti, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. Sometimes humorous, sometimes extravagant, but always revealing and intimate, they picture the world around them in charming vignettes, landscapes, portraits, and caricatures. Together with their words, these autobiographical works of art created for private consumption reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, disappointments and frustrations of their authors' lives. These riveting artifacts are drawn from the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, one of the largest repositories of artists' papers in the nation, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2005.
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The correspondence provides an intimate view of the artists' social world. -- American Craft, Apr-May 2006
The witty warm missives in MORE THAN WORDS make one wonder if personal correspondence is in danger of dying today. -- Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2005
These doodles show artists--some well-known, others more obscure--being relaxed and goofy...a testament to family ties and friendship. -- Newsday, Dec 11, 2005
Today, when illustrating a communication...is adding smiley-face emoticons to instant messages...this arrives like a letter from long-lost friend. -- Wall Street Journal, 1/21/2006
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Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when they simply won't do. And when the author happens to be a visual artist, the results can be both intimate and transcendent. This book is a testament to those occasions, a compilation of personal letters by some of America's most revered artists, each one adorned with an illustration. Writing to wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants are such revered artists as Frederick Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Lyonel Feininger, John Sloan, Alfred Frueh, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Calder, Gio Ponti, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. Sometimes humorous, sometimes extravagant, but always revealing and intimate, they picture the world around them in charming vignettes, landscapes, portraits, and caricatures. Together with their words, these autobiographical works of art created for private consumption reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, disappointments and frustrations of their authors' lives. These riveting artifacts are drawn from the collection of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, one of the largest repositories of artists' papers in the nation, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2005.
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New York, Joseph Lindon Smith, Alexander Calder, Gio Ponti, Giuliette Fanciulli, Red Grooms, United States, John Sloan, Mimi Gross, Paul Bransom, Walt Kuhn, Alfred Joseph Frueh, John Steuart Curry, Julian Levi, Man Ray, Moses Soyer, Robert Frederick Blum, Rockwell Kent, Thomas Eakins, Walter Pach, Winslow Homer, Andy Warhol New!
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- Thomas Eakins by Darrel Sewell in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Italo Scanga by Dale Chihuly on page 109, and Back Matter
- Winslow Homer by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. in Front Matter, and page 111
- Gladys Nilsson by Gladys Nilsson in Back Matter
- Mark Rothko (Museum of Modern Art) by Peter Howard Selz on page 5
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