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Martha Kingsbury
"There is a sub-text of the artist as loner, and we are admitted into the intensities that linked various of these creative people."
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As a young artist and musician Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on his journals, Wehr provides an engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes of painters Mark Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves; photographer Imogen Cunningham; gallery owner Zoe Dusanne; poets Theodore Roethke, Richard Selig, Elizabeth Bishop, and LŽone Adams; philosopher Susanne Langer; musicians Ernest Bloch and Berthe Poncy Jacobson; and actor Margaret Hamilton.
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The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations With Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West
The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations With Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West,Wesley Wehr,University of Washington Press,0295979569,1929-,20th century,Art & Art Instruction,Artists,Artists, Architects, Photographers,Arts In General (Multi-Subject),Arts, American,Biography & Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Friends and associates,General,History - General,Northwest, Pacific,Wehr, Wesley,
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