Hiram Williams Diaries

Hiram Williams - Art/Life Journals
Content Summaries for Selected Journals
Volume 1
This volume begins in Oct. 1968; the Williamses are in Gainesville, and the weather is cold. H.W. refers
to: Mauricio Lasansky's "Nazi Drawings;" his own evolution of imagery to use one or two features of a
personality; the breast as a gland; landscape imagery and painting for money; his idea for a series of skins
and a double image; homecoming at U.F.; election day; the New York art scene; success; money and
intelligence; Picasso; form and formlessness; the faculty art exhibition; changes in Nordness Gallery; his
family tree; and "quality." H.W. reads: Our Crowd, Making It, Miro, William Blake and Paul Klee.
H.W. works on: illustrations for a friend's poems; drawings and paintings of punch bowls, coffee cups,
roads, still lives, chorus lines, heads. H.W. travels: with the children, who are home for the holidays, and
his wife to the beaches at St. Augustine, Fla., where he observes nature; he also flies to give a talk at Palm
Beach Jr. College. H.W. contracts the flu and chest pains.
Volume 2
This volume begins in Jan. 1969. The Williamses are in Gainesville. H.W. refers to: critics and irony;
humanism in art; and idea for a novel; Andrew Wyeth and his contribution to figuration compared to
H.W.'s contribution; Norman Geske; Walt Disney. H.W. reads: Nicholas and Alexander, The Bedbug
and Selected Poetry; he sees the play The Subject was Roses. H.W. works on: a Watteau paper with
daughter, Kim; a talk about the painter's struggle.
Volume 3
This volume begins Jan. 28, 1969. H.W. refers to: New Yorkers, the New York Art Scene; N.Y. gallery
conflicts with the student show; anonymity and approval; artist's intelligence; waning prestige; critics;
originality; misunderstanding; Oldenburg; Theibaud; John Graham; De Kooning; William Blake;
Magritte; Thoreau; Emerson; Hawthorne; Alcott; national and regional recognition; Yasuo Kuniyoshi
(who had a show at University Gallery at the time); Benton; Curry; Wood, and other artists of the thirties;
history of the UF Faculty Seminar on American Civilization; personal history from childhood; appearance
of students; Balthus; and he includes an excerpt from Poon's Smith. H.W. reads: Man in the Glass
Octopus; Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings; A Voyage to Lilliput. H.W. works on a
lithograph and several sketches.
Volume 4
This volume begins on Feb. 14, 1969. H.W. refers to: rain on the roof; Gazing Man in the Whitney;
sidewalk art shows; owning land; Negro church services and black/white relations; Nordness, N.Y.
Gallery; writer, Jean Stafford; Mary Nye, first Texas gallery dealer; mechanical ability; Nativisim;
Dutchmen; Chagall; Warhol; Duchamp; Miro; Malcom Morley; Dorothy Miller; Anthony Bower. H.W.
reads: To Be a Pilgrim; Herself Surprised; The Horse’s Mouth. H.W. works on paintings of heads and
many sketches. H.W. travels to Charleston.
Volume 5
This volume begins Feb. 27, 1969. H.W. refers to: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican draftsman; Larry Rivers;
Robert Frost; pushing work in New York; personal history; attitude of students "today"; Milton Avery;
Poon's Smith; Hemingway; Norman Mailer; luck; political animals in N.Y.; De Chirico; Tanguey; Dali;
MoMA; Dorothy Miller; Morandi; Burchfield; crows; an encounter with a trapped colt; mouth images;
Van Deren Coke; George Eddinger, WPA art instructor; Harrison Covington; Jack Flam; Cezanne; Jerry
Uelsmann; Peter Bunnell; snakes; painters he has met or known; "purple-patch"; Ben Shahn; Lindner;
DeKooning; Oldenburg; Balthus; trouble with Nordness. H.W. works on: five "Heads". H.W.
experiences chest pains.

Volume 6
This volume begins in March, 1969. H.W. refers to: race relations; Van Gogh; Running Man image
being lifted from him; William Blake; Samuel Palmer; Jim Dine; Alfred Leslie; Picasso; Baskin; family
history; Charles Hovington Bull; political survival in art. H.W. reads: The Couples, Samuel Palmer
Sketchbook. H.W. works on: head and torso; Irradiated Man. H.W. travels to Winston-Salem, and
Pennsylvania.
Volume 7
This volume begins in May, 1969. H.W. refers to: minimal art; his skins series; hippies and "the
establishment", Willem de Kooning; Milton Avery; Joseph Cornell; career, energy and the expense of
artist's materials; Jerry Lewis; Billy Graham. H.W. does a TV program with Roy Craven, Director of
University Gallery. H.W. reads: Disobedience and Democracy; Concerning Dissent and Civil
Disobedience; Soul on Ice. H.W. works on: two skins of tables; head; skin of a crowd; skinned saw;
punch bowl with collaged eyes and mouth. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Palm Beach, and Ball State
University in Muncie, Indiana.
Volume 8
This volume begins in August, 1969. H.W. refers to: gossips; Robert Motherwell; Thomas Hart Benton;
the passion of gospel singing; New York; an episode in Germany with General George Patton; old age;
contour; William Blake; Jane Daugherty; Wesselman; Newman; Kline; the 'black hole' as "us", we are the
'audience' in the universe (this becomes an idea for a series); Williams Weege; Robert Beckhurt; Truman
Capote; projects for 1970; accomplishment; recollection of Pearl Harbor bombing. H.W. reads: Samuel
Palmer, Shoreham and After; A Man of the People; Vanguard Artist; An American in Art; Pump House
Gang. H.W. works on: punch bowls, collages. H.W. sees: Lion in Winter; Easy Rider. H.W. travels to:
Pennsylvania; Roanoke, Va., Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 9
This volume begins in Dec. 1969. H. W. refers to: Ernest Hemingway; philosophy of education; Andrew
Wyeth. H.W. reads: The Myth of the Negro Past; Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. H.W. works on:
collages, heads, roads, punch bowls. H.W. sees: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. H.W. travels to:
the Florida Keys at Christmas time; New York.
Volume 10
This volume begins in March 1970. H.W. refers to: Challenging Man; Poon's Smith; Kent State
shooting; Nixon; Charles Burchfield; Francis Bacon; LeBrun. H.W. reads: The Arms of Krupp;
Contemporary British Painting; Matisse. H.W. works on: Collages, heads, landscapes, Chorus lines,
punch bowls, roads, stroboscopic figures; running man. H.W. sees: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. H.W.
travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.; Bowling Green University, Columbia, Ohio.
Volume 11
This volume begins in July, 1970. Hiram Williams refers to: truth; encaustic; Sidney Noland; Lucien
Freud; Graham Sutherland; Charles Burchfield; De Kooning; Dubuffet; Nordness; Francis Bacon; range
and vision; Hockney; Dufy; Edwin Dickinson; Kitaj; Leon Golub; psychology through imagery; New
York; maple trees; nature; Hobson Pittman; family history. H.W. reads: Moment in the Sun; The
Seventh American Review; Little Big Man. H.W. works on: skinned trousers; chorus lines; injured
landscape; punch bowls; skins; man in a bowler hat; crowd on a beach inviting flagellation. H.W. travels
to: Crescent Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania.
Volume 12
This volume begins in Sept. 1970. Hiram Williams refers to: rat race; success; churches; Hemingway;
Mailer; Thomas Wolfe; Harry Crews; history of Art Department--growth and curriculum; his 5th one-

man show in N.Y.; recommendations for changes in public school art department; Charles Burchfield.
H.W. reads: Patton; Wretched of the Earth. H.W. works on: Macadam landscapes; heads. H.W. sees:
Patton; The Russians are Coming. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.; Richmond, Va.
Volume 13
This volume begins in Oct. 1970. Hiram Williams refers to: his fifth one-man show at Nordness, (a press
release describing the "Skins" and "Punchbowls" is included); the trip to New York; MoMA; Dorothy
Miller; Alfred Barr; Eakins; O'Keefe; John Canaday; his own personality; Hobson Pittman; Williams
Merritt Chase; "queering" the composition of a picture; "junction" in composition; lack of critical
attention to N.Y. show; his mother's failing health; Francis Bacon; ideas for new landscapes; Claude
Ponsot; men and power. H.W. reads: Happy Days; Ernest Hemingway; The Making of a Counter
Culture. H.W. works on: reworks Professors (Intellectuals) at an Impasse; Man in a Bowler Hat;
landscapes; crowd. H.W. travels to: New York; Pennsylvania; Flagler Beach, Fla.; St. Pete, Fla.
Volume 14
This volume begins in Dec. 1970. Hiram Williams refers to: Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima; Albert
Camus; Ernest Hemingway; John Kennedy; Ken Kesey; Pierre Trudeau--all men larger than life; the
December issue of Art News and a review of his show. H.W. works on: Chorus line; there are over 80
sketches in the volume. H.W. travels to: Tallahassee, Fla.
Volume 15
This volume begins in Jan. 1971. Hiram Williams refers to: hauling art to gallery; Eakins; Sheeler;
Mishima; Karl Hess; Chorus Lines; Stanley Spencer; Hobson Pittman; Louise Nevelson; Kurt Vonnegut,
Jr.; Andy Warhol; plagiarism of his own work with photographs as evidence. H.W. reads: The New
Painting, Udo Kultermann, Praeger Press, which includes reference to H.W.; Down All the Days; The
Kingdom and the Power. H.W. sees: Five Easy Pieces. H.W. works on: Earth Mother; heads; crowd;
seated figures; a lithographic portrait; sketch series showing ideas prior to beginning of diaries, from the
early sixties, such as Heads; also, Seated Figures, current work, are sketched, along with several pages of
cartoons and a series of photographs of Williams demonstrating the creation of a large painting to a class.
Volume 16
This volume begins in Feb. 1971. Hiram Williams refers to: Jasper Johns; Eric Segal (Love Story),
Mohammed Ali and Frazier fight; Henry Kissinger; Kurt Schwitters; genius; middle age; his mother's
failing health; Dubuffet; Duchamp; Robert Morris; family history; artist/critic/dealer relationships;
humanists; universities and museums where his work is placed. H.W. reads: Up the Organization; The
Duality of Vision; Albert Camus' Notebooks; Clotel; The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. He works
on: seated figures; heads; portrait of Sadi Koru; punch bowl; standing figures. He travels to: St. Pete,
Fla.; Sarasota, Fla.
Volume 17
This volume begins March 29, 1971 and ends May 9, 1971. H.W. refers to: Standing figures; Nordness;
small scale (vs. large scale); Hilton Kramer, New York; Dorothy Miller; Barry Schwartz (author of The
New Humanism which includes H.W); Edward Hopper; Easter; "purple patches;" student riots; Beatrice
Nettles; Claude Ponsot. H.W. paints: Standing figures; couples, crowd, "Trio," Seated figures, Jittering
Couple. H.W. reads: Hotel; A Life of Goya. H.W. sees: Little Big Man. H. W. travels to: Cedar Key,
FL; Boston, MA.
Volume 18
This volume begins May 10, 1971 and ends June 5, 1971. H.W. refers to: Andy Warhol; publicity;
visibility in the art world; fame; Charles Burchfield; Rousseau; Corot; Courbet; Hopper; Bacon; Miro;
Claes Oldenburg; Ricci; Hobson Pittman; the New York element. H.W. works on: Couples, Road;

Howling Man; lithograph: a portrait of Ken Kerslake; Wounded Bitch; Heads. H.W. Reads: Magritte;
The French Lieutenants Woman; Mary Queen of Scots; Claes Oldenburg; David Hockney. H.W. travels
to: Tampa; Matanzas Beach, Fla.
Volume 19
This volume begins June 6, 1971 and ends July 16, 1971. H.W. refers to: Reginald Marsh; pornography
in art; David Hockney; himself as a humanist; Bacon; Paolozzi; lists of paintings done in past 7 months;
publicity; drawing. H.W. works on: Jittery Man; Chorus Line; Chorus Line w/ Nails; Sexual Tension;
Snake themes; Seated Figures; Wounded Bitch; portrait of Lenny Kesl; Heads; Still Lifes; Roads; Bathing
Girl; Burned Mountain. H.W. reads: The Artist in Society; From the Wonderful Folks Who Gave You
Pearl Harbor; Hard Times. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 20
This volume begins July 16, 1971 and ends Sept. 1, 1971. H.W. refers to: Poons Smith (his unpublished
novel); William Wiley; his week-long trip as a visiting artist to Boulder, CO; plans for future projects;
getting hypnotized and painting; Charles Burchfield (in comparison to himself). H.W. works on: Heads;
portrait of Lenny Kesl; Sitting Figures; Juries; Still Life; Big Head and Shoulders; portrait of John
Hawver; Walking Man. H.W. reads: The Greening of America; Future Shock; Charles Burchfield; The
Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. H.W. travels to: Boulder, CO; Ft. Mantazas Beach, Fla.
Volume 21
This volume begins Sept. 1, 1971 and ends Oct. 8, 1971. H.W. refers to: memories of the "South;"
integration; thumbnail sketching; Alec Ginsberg; Norman Mailer. H.W. works on: Reconstruction of
Running Man; The Crowd: Heads; Landscapes. H.W. reads: Fame and Obscurity; Don't Fall Off the
Mountain; Stranger in a Strange Land; The First Circle; Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catcher.
H.W. travels to: Mt. Pisgah, NC; PA; Matanzas Beach, Fla.
Volume 22
H.W. refers to: William Blake; Charles Burchfield; Life magazine reproduction very like his own work;
Harry Crews; self-improvement; Hopper; William Wiley; David Hockney; career; Wyeth;
environment/world (in art); individuality; faith; studio materials; demonstration (of art processes); Lee
Nordness. H.W. works on: Two Doomed Men, or Victims; Big Male Crowd; Standing Men; Seated
Earth Mothers; portrait of Marshall New (demo). H.W. reads: A Search for Justice; Charles Burchfield;
The Battle of the Books. H.W. travels to: Ft. Matanzas Beach, Fla.
Volume 23
This volume begins Nov. 8, 1971 and ends Dec. 9, 1971. H.W. refers to: professionalism; Rubens;
Burchfield; the New York scene; originality; aging; Bacon; John Marin; Cezanne; Frank O'Hara (poet);
ambition; death. H.W. works on: Angry Man; Turning Figure; Seated Couple; Head. H.W. reads:
Inside the Third Reich; Our Gang. H.W. travels to: St. Augustine, Fla.
Volume 24
This volume begins Dec. 9, 1971 and ends Jan. 10, 1972. H.W. refers to: fear, impressions of European
culture; passion; Bacon; 20th century; contemporary art; history of figure/ground in painting. H.W.
reads: Slaughterhouse Five. H.W. travels to: Europe: Amsterdam; Utrecht; Cologne; Manheim; Lugani;
Milan; Florence; Sienna; Heidelberg; Berlin. H.W. sees: Carnal Knowledge.
Volumes 25 and 26
Volume 25 begins Jan 10, 1972 and ends Feb. 10, 1972; volume 26 begins Feb. 11, 1972 and ends March
15, 1972. H.W. refers to: Francis Bacon; Lucian Freud; Edward Hopper; innovation in painting;
Williams T. Wiley; life and art; Elaine de Kooning; Thomas Hess; Manhattan bedroom politics; Picasso;

Miro; Michelangelo; Lautrec; Willem de Kooning; Rembrandt; Van Gogh; Wyeth; John Kennedy; Spiro
Agnew; Mickey Rooney; practice vs theory of art; future of art; audiences; Rauschenberg; seriousness;
put-on; pessimism/truth; Burchfield; Klee; Paolozzi; Thomas Eakins; Alec Ginsberg; Dr. Spock; Audon;
Warhol; Janis Joplin. H.W. works on: Seated Couples/Pregnant Couple; Big Couple; series of
Abandoned Abstractions; Audience; Still Life. H.W. reads: Music: the Arts and Ideas; Savonarola, Life,
Poetry, Criticism; Unyoung, Uncolored, Unpoor. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla.
Volume 27
This volume begins March 16, 1972 and ends April 18, 1972. H.W. refers to: death; religion; atheism;
Nature; singing; personal history in Muncy, PA; Jim Dine; Thomas Eakins. H.W. works on: Robert
Mautz portrait; Big Landscape. H.W. reads: So Excellent a Fishe; The Other. H.W. travels to:
Tallahassee; Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 28
This volume begins April 18, 1972 and ends May 3, 1972. H.W. refers to: Larry Rivers; Duane Hanson;
Van Deren Coke; Edward Hopper; N.C. Wyeth; J. Edgar Hoover; Andrew Wyeth. H.W. works on:
Mautz portrait; Audience. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 29
This volume begins May 5, 1972 and ends June 13, 1972. H.W. refers to: the birth of and naming of his
daughter, Kim Avonell Williams; protest of war in Vietnam; Nixon; morality; "purple patch;" hypnosis.
H.W. works on: Audience; Mountain Scenes. H.W. reads: Stillwell and the American Experience in
China. H.W. travels to: Tampa; Mantazas Beach, Fla.
Volume 30
This volume begins June 13, 1972 and ends July 17, 1972. H.W. refers to: his hypnosis and painting;
Norman Mailer; depression; Lee Nordness; observation and common sense; Audience; remembrance of
life in Muncy, PA; idea; Burchfield; Impressionism; integrity; Baskin; success; rigid imagery; Marc
Chagall; "The Contest" of painting in the light of art history; compassion; Thomas Eakins; Bacon. H.W.
works on: Landscapes, heads, still lifes, coffee pots, Mautz portrait. H.W. reads: Burchfield; Stanley
Spencer; The Drifters. H.W. travels to: Atlantic beaches, Fla.
Volume 31
This volume begins July 17, 1972 and ends Aug. 15, 1972. H.W. refers to: perspective and the universe;
man/nature; Francis Bacon; Anton Ehrenzqeig; "unconscious scanning;" titles of artworks; Paul Klee;
Miro; Kitaj; Paolozzi; Jasper Johns; light and shadow; Willem de Kooning; Beckmann; Marin; the "big"
look in art; Demuth; Poons Smith; Wm. F. Buckley; Ellsberg; Van Gogh; painter's materials; Franz Kline;
Abstract Expressionism; Diebenkorn; craftsmanship; process; DuBuffet; Michelangelo; training and
technique; Thomas Eakins; Constable; Giotto; Turner; Porter; Giotto; Boucher; Rivera; Orozco;
Sequiterios; Thomas Hart Benton; Ben Shahn; Picasso; Braques; Leger; Mondrian; de Chirico; Tanguey;
Ernst; Soutine; Nolde; Munch; Grosz; Sutherland; Dickensen; Robert Morris; Rauschenberg; Wiley;
Bernadette Devlon; posterity. H.W. works on: Still lives; tablescapes. H.W. reads: The Hidden Order of
Art; Francis Bacon; Miro; The Prince.
Volume 32
This volume begins Aug. 16, 1972 and ends Sept. 30, 1972. H.W. refers to: Imaginary gardens and
toads; Camus. Sartre; putting his dog to sleep; diaries; journals; real writing; Wyeth; Edwin Dickenson;
Eakins; "The long littleness of life;" Turner; Willem de Kooning; Oldenburg; Hockney; the mountains;
Nordness; Audience. H.W. works on: Heads; still lives; portrait. H.W. reads: Spoon River Anthology;
Birds of America. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach, FL; Philadelphia, PA.

Volume 33
H.W. refers to: Who's Who entry; picture plane; Willem deKooning; space; Modern Art; Miro;
distance/interval; perspective; Rembrandt; Jack Levine; Morris Graves; Pollock; Renaissance;
Rauschenberg; Cubists; Cezanne; Jasper Johns; Thomas Hess; Braque; illusionism; Monet; Seurat; field
paintings; microcosmic/macroscosmic; Fairfield Porter; Mondrian; Malevish; Max Beckmann;
Surrealists; Dali; Hans Arp; Duchamp; Dubuffet; tension/form/formlessness; Gene Davis; Noland; Barnet
Newman; Albers; Frank Stella; Warhol; figure; points; Harry Crews; Nordness; Ryder; form and emotion;
portraits; Man; masks; reprint of On Creating and Teaching Talks with Hiram Williams by William
Stephens; truth; Oldenburg; Dewey; Einstein; breeder ideas; Audience. H.W. works on: Still Life; Head;
Tablescapes; Blue Ridge Valley; drawings. H.W. reads: Man and Crisis. H.W. travels to: Tarpon
Springs; St. Augustine; Cedar Key, Fla.
Volume 34
H.W. refers to: Important people he's known and entertained; Bacon; deKooning; Robert Morris;
acrylics; Maholy-Nagy; Gabo; Pevsner; Claes Oldenburg; Rubin; Frank Stella; Burchfield; upcoming
New York trip; Nordness; New York galleries and museums; Gottleib; Dubuffet; Edwin Dickinson; his
own opening exhbition at Nordnes; Perfect Contemporary Pictorial Expressions; style/vision; Blake;
Originals: Matisse; Miro; Chagall; Bacon; deKooning; Burchfield; Wiley; Ernst; Klee; Dickinson;
Robert Morris; Warhol; Johns; Rauschenberg; Picasso; Hopper. H.W. reads: Rabbit Redux; Self
Realment; Philip Wilson Steer; The Hidden Order of Art.
Volume 35
H.W. refers to: Karl Zerbe; his own New York show; Nordness; Hobson Pittman; NY Times review of
his show; Andrew Wyeth; John Canaday (writes a letter to; receives a letter from); Lester Johnson;
Audience; death; Burchfield; Hopper; Homer; Eakins. H.W. reads: The World of Washington Irving;
Wise Blood; Icons and Images of the Sixties; Day of the Jackal; The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera; The
World of MC Escher; Picasso and His Friends; Edward Hopper.
Volume 36
H.W. refers to: Lee Nordness (letter from); Audience; Klee; Picasso; Miro; Turning Gazer; review of his
own work (included); lists of university and museum collections of his work. H.W. works on: Still Lives.
H.W. reads: Year of the Whale. H. W. travels to: Shreveport.
Volume 37
H.W. refers to: Harry Crews; New York and its chauvinism; the Art Scene; critics; Audience; drawing
demo; vocabulary/style; Dubuffet; deKooning; Sutherland; Miro; Avery; Oldenburg; thoughts on his own
art: silhouette, "purple patches;" contrasting material against illusion, plasticity versus depth; style. H.W.
works on: Still Life; Tablescapes; the "Hypnosis" painting; drawings; Woman. H.W. reads: The De-
Definition of Art. H.W. travels to: Atlanta, GA.
Volume 38
H.W. refers to: Sources of Exploration (reprinted interview); his own history of development; the
landscape; inconsistency; idea for tables. H.W. works on: drawings; Still Lives; Chorus Lines; Blue
Ridge/Great Smokies Landscape; Brown Mountain (where the ghost lights dwell); Couple. H.W. travels
to: Memphis, TN.
Volume 39
H.W. refers to: Pablo Picasso (he dies); field painting; Olitski; Harry Crews. H.W. works on:
Mountainscape; Stretched Figure; Landscape; drawings. H.W. reads: Godfather Papers. H.W. sees: The
Ruling Class.

Volume 40
H.W. refers to: Watergate; drawing lesson presentation (outlined); Bacon's blur; multiple views;
ambiguity in description; space congestion; superimposition of shapes; the "plane;" Patrick Caulfield;
David Hockney; jasper Johns; Chagall; Dickens; Hemingway. H.W. works on: drawings; Head; ink
drawings; Still Life. H.W. reads: Car; Look Back in Anger. H.W. travels to: North Carolina (daughter's
college graduation); Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 41
H.W. refers to: 'oil over oil'; ground; Nixon; Watergate; Allen Stone; Bacon; stroboscopic; selfconscious(ness);
Prendergast; Samuel Palmer; William Blake; imitation of one's heroes; teen years;
proper tools; guano; Henry Miller; regional art; Burchfield; Muncy, PA (childhood home); place taught
at; Hemingway. H.W. works on: Table; Big Seated Man; Watergate I; drawings; Tablescape; Watergate
II; Portrait of J. Petruchyck; Head Vomiting Blood (Victim). H.W. reads: Ben Shahn; William Blake;
The Birth of Berlin; The New World; Hemingway. H.W. travels to: North Carolina; Pennsylvania;
Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 42
H.W. refers to: Audience; Watergate; emotion in art; figure/ground; Ingres; Stella; Surrealism; Dali;
Miro; DiChirico; space; Picasso; Francois Gilot; deKooning; Cezanne; Rembrandt; Sutherland; artist; the
figurative idea; banks; painters; schizophrenic (artists); intuition; critics; Pollock; Larry Rivers; Franz
Kline; Frank O'Hara; Motherwell; Chagall; sources. H.W. works on: Still Life; Mountainscape;
drawings; O'Connell portrait; Watergate. H.W. reads: Hemingway
Volume 43
H.W. refers to: seminar program (outlines); Stephen O'Connell portrait; Poons Smith; Gerald Ford. H.W.
works on: O'Connell portrait; Head; Watergate portrait; Holbrook portrait; Tablescape; Watergate; Steve
Lotz portrait; Mountain.
Volume 44
H.W. refers to: Ellsworth Kelley; Jackson Pollock; Wyeth; loss of vitality; Watergate; the Stephen
O'Connell portrait; Nordness. H.W. works on: Portrait of Beckie New; Portrait of Avonell; Chorus
Lines; Big Seated Figure; Little Chorus Line; Watergate 4; Green Still Life; Flesh-Colored Coffeepot.
H.W. reads: The Best and the Brightest.
Volume 45
H.W. refers to: plasticity; Graham Sutherland; Duchamp; Kitaj; Jasper Johns; his next show; Watergate;
The Triumph of American Painting; Abstract Expressionism; the 1930s; WPA; Social Realism; Alfred
Barr; Cubism; Hans Hofmann; New York; Surrealism. H.W. works on: Seated Couple; Portrait of Sol
Kramer. H.W. reads: Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye.
Volume 46
H.W. refers to: Watergate; R.B. Kitaj; Bacon; [artists who] reinforce Hiram's painting; Duchamp;
Williams Wiley; possible gas shortage; Nixon; Triumph of American Painting; underpainting; mountains.
H.W. works on: Portrait of Sol Kramer; Watergate 5. H.W. travels to: Asheville, NC.
Volume 47
H.W. refers to: Nordness; Watergate 1; Oscar Wilde; modern art; Margaret Sullivan; Nixon; Lownard
Baskin; Watergate 5; Audience; Watergate 6; Stretched Man; show at Western North Carolina University;
show at University of Tampa; recent figure idea. H.W. works on: Stretched Figure; Crowd; drawings;
Stretched Figure with Naked Skin; Chorus Line; Stretched Man. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach;
Tampa, Fla.

Volume 48
H.W. refers to: Burchfield; metaphor in painting; Ben Shahn; John Morse (who gave a few drawing
lessons to H.W. as a kid); Wyeth; Bacon; Watergate; Paul Klee; Poons Smith. H.W. works on: Stretched
Man; Still Lives; Portrait of Rizzi. H.W. reads: Malabar Farm; Art of the Times; Diaries of Paul Klee;
Pop Art. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach; Crescent Beach; Tallahassee; Orlando, Fla.
Volume 49
H.W. refers to: Walter Inglis; Watergate; [art] problems; Van Gogh (texture as expression); El Greco
(distortion as expression); plane/field; modulation; the nature of points; weights; families of shapes in
figuration; horizon(s); Exercise: paint in flat hue; open brush stroke; Miro; Wyeth; Nordness; his
wedding. H.W. works on: Stretched Man; Crowd; Skin; Hollis Holbrook at Crescent Beach; Skinned
Pot. H.W. reads: The Gulag Archipelago; Fair Man.
Volume 50
H.W. refers to: Jim Dine; William Wiley; humans; men; James Thrall Soby; Edwin Dickinson; Seldon
Rodman; John Morse; Watergate; Paul Klee; Watergate #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Nixon; impeachment; [recipe
for] medium for tempera underpainting a la Rubens. H.W. works on: Skinned Wrench; Stretched Man;
Mountains; Macadam Landscapes; Watergate 7; Stretched Man with Kukla Belly.
Volume 51
H.W. refers to: The landscape [in art]; Hopper; plasticity; curved planes; space; horizon(s); Watergate;
Stanley Spencer. H.W. works on: Outlines of Objects; Hollis Holbrook at Crescent Beach; Stretched
Figure; Meat Tables; Watergate. H.W. reads: Edward Hopper; Dylan Thomas. H.W. travels to:
Crescent Beach, FL. H.W. sees: The Three Musketeers.
Volume 52
H.W. refers to: Joseph Duveen; Abstract Expressionism; dealer/artist/museum/collector/critic
relationship; deKooning-Hess; Rivers-Sam Hunter; Stella-B. Rose; Guston-Dore Ashton; Oldenburg-
Baro; Noland-Greenburg; Warhol; Rivers; Rauschenberg; Johns; Harold Rosenberg; The "star system;"
Miro; Stanley Spencer; H.W. as a teacher; Bewisck; Sam Johnson; Richard Jeffries; Joplin; Morenson;
Hopper; Watergate; Nixon. H.W. works on: Meat Table(s); Banana(s); French Bread; Apple; Banquet
(Meat Tables). H.W. reads: Everglades: River of Grass. H.W. travels to: New Jersey; Pennsylvania;
North Carolina.
Volume 53
H.W. refers to: Nixon; Watergate; Ford; the Hiram Williams Collection at University of Texas, Austin;
Lee Nordness; John Morse (letter to); Ernest Thomspson Seton; Henry James; Hemingway; Bacon;
Burchfield; Klee; Miro; Duchamp; Johns; true nature of expression; Stanley Spencer. H.W. works on:
Portrait of Marshall New; Meat Tables; Wine Bottles. H.W. reads: A Short History of the Civil War;
Ordeal by Fire; Goodbye Picasso; Hogarth; Shahn; Nevelson. H.W. travels to: Tallahassee, FL.
Volume 54
H.W. refers to: Frankenthaler; Rothko; Watergate; Nordness; the Whitney; Kenneth Hayes Miller; the
"Big Look;" Chagall's observation; Charles Burchfield; New York chauvinism; landscape painting;
Glackens; Thomas Hart Benton. H.W. reads: To Keep Art Alive; Plain Speaking; To Appomattox (Nine
Days 1865); Benton's Lithographs; Glackens and The Ash Can School.
Volume 55
H.W. refers to: Portraits and photography; on demonstrating portraiture; list of portraits H.W.'s done
(rated from so-so to excellent); Glackens; Henri; Lawson; Shinn; Davies; Luks; Prendergast; Sloan (The

Eight); Nordness;l chest pains; Watergate; T.S. Elliot; John Russell. H.W. reads: Glackens Biography;
John Sloan; John Sloan's Prints; Dogs of War; Art and Reality. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla.
Volume 56
H.W. refers to: Painting (should not be...); Watergate; Lee Nordness; painting (is about...); assimilate;
What is Art? (an outline); Cezanne; Stella; Watergate; Watergate I; the Whitney; painting technique;
tempera underpainting recipe; health; little death/big death; faculty show. H.W. works on: Watergate II;
Banana(s); Collages; drawings; Chorus Line(s); Stretched Man; Jess Atkins Portrait. H.W. reads: Sailing
Alone Around the World; In Search of Goethe from Within; The New Humanism: Art for Changing
Times.
Volume 57
H.W. refers to: Wyeth; the ozone; Rembrandt; Y.B. Yeats; Padriac; Mary Colum; George Luks;
Glackens; Henri; the Prendergasts; Bellows; Everett Shinn; Alan Seegar (the poet); Joaquin Miller;
Rockewell Kent; John Quinn (the collector); Ezra Pound; the Cedar Bar Group in New York; Sam
Johnson; Barbizon group; Impressionism; Concord and Boston circles; the "Last Generation: in Paris The
Bloombury Group; The Pre-Raphaelites; the Fauves; the German Expressionists; observations (of his own
personality); Lee Nordness Whistler; Picasso; Miro; Michelangelo; Thomas hart Benton; Glackens;
Stanley Spencer; Lasansky; deKooning; Klee; Watergate 6; underpainting (outlines process); history of
watercolor: Blake, Cotman, Crome, Turner, Homer, Cezanne, Sargeant, Demuth, Marin, Burchfield,
Wyeth; demonstration (outline). H.W. works on: Road; Portrait of Mike Kemp; Highway; Mountain.
H.W. reads: John Sloan; The Bog People; Zen and Art of Archery; Whistler; Jaws.
Volume 58
H.W. refers to: Harry Crews; Chorus Line; Blue Ridge Mountain; Poons Smith; Oliveira. H.W. works
on: Mountain triptych; Brown Mountain, North Carolina; Patriotic Road.
Volume 59
H.W. refers to: Nordness; List of short painters: Whistler, Benton, Miro, Picasso, deKooning,
Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Williams, Lautrec; Tom Wolfe; trip to Mexico; Matta; Vietnam; breeder ideas.
H.W. travels to: Mexico
Volume 60
H.W. refers to: Nordness; egg tempera; encaustic; deKooning, Francis Bacon; Rivera; Velasco; Mexican
landscapes; the Whitney; Golub; Motherwell. H.W. works on: Bananas; Stretched Man; Stretched
Figure; Mountain. H.W. reads: Applehead. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach, Fla.
Volume 61
H.W. refers to: notes on technique for painting and drawing; border; wash; draw; concepts and
landscape; Morandi; Dickinson; Lee Nordenss; Bacon; World War I aces; New York trip; Whitney;
Reginal Marsh; Robert Miller; Emmerich; Gorky; Poon's Smith. H.W. works on: Grandfather Mountain;
Bananas; Stretched Man; Undulating; Skinned Stretched Man. H.W. reads: The Artist's World; Erotic
Art. H.W. travels to: New York (for the Francis Bacon Exhibition).
Volume 62
H.W. refers to: Tom Wolfe; Wayne Thiebaud; aspects of the human figure; Williams's symbolic
language; Williams Pachner; Joseph Jeffries Dodge; problems for art students: still life and abstraction,
interior, landscape, mountain landscape, problems of overall field. H.W. works on: Big Banana; Victim;
Bananas; Some Parallel; Landscape; drawings; Skinned Torsos. H.W. reads: The American University;
Islands in the Stream.

Volume 63
H.W. refers to: New York City; art of necessity being metaphorical; opinions; Beach Road with Blue
Sky; drifting; phallic image; states of mind; Hemingway; Dubuffet; Morris Graves; William Wiley; Poons
Smith. H.W. works on: Little Skinned Torsos; Chorus Lines; Chorus Line Skin; drawings; Still
Life/Bananas; Skinned Chorus Line; Skinned Seated Chorus Line. H.W. reads: Frasconi; The
Americans: The Democratic Experience; Zen and Art of Archery; Assorted Prose; To Appomattox, Nine
Days 1865; The War Between the Tates; A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla.
Volume 64
H.W. refers to: John Morse; himself at ages 5 and 6; artist's studio--Mrs. Luce; La Source by Ingres; the
Harvard Classics; his dad; WPA; being drafted; God; combat; the war changed everything; Camus;
Sartre; loss of God; the humanities; history; Truth; Beauty; Goodness; George Orwell; H.W.'s
art/painting; fate; philosophers; Robert Penn Warren; titles for student projects; Bacon; the figure. H.W.
works on: Victim; Head; drawings.
Volume 65
H.W. refers to: The Humanities lecture included in Volume 64; Impressionism; Eakins; Eddinger;
Picasso; Modern Art; Pissarro; Manet; Renoir; Degas; Monet; Seurat; Sisley; Twachtman; Prendergast;
Guatemala trip. H.W. reads: Bear. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, FL; Guatemala.
Volume 66
H.W. refers to: Laguna Gloria Art Gallery brochure essay contents and artist's statement; Renoir;
abandoned abstractions (list of); mouth movement; art/form/uses; Lee Nordness; Patty Hearst; Three
Women; Chorus Line; Some Parallel; object and subject; the plane; formality; Dubuffet. H.W. works on:
drawings; still lifes; bowls of fruit with handles of flesh; Tablescape. H.W. reads: Pilgrim at Tinker
Creek.
Volume 67
H.W. refers to: Washing dishes (analysis); encaustic; egg tempera; Lee Nordness; the "Big Look;"-function
of form economically; the intense image versus the nothing image; Phineas Bloom; Leonard
Baskin; anti-diagrammatic techniques; growing old; Thomas Cornell; review of the Chandler collection of
American art. H.W. works on: drawings; painting; Tablescape; Tablescape with Legs; Big Chorus Line
Colored Drawing on Canvas.
Volume 68
H.W. refers to: Burchfield; still life; the interior space problem; formality in art; Hemingway; concept and
landscape; photographs; transfers; gimmicks; Foster Harmon; Homer; Sargeant; painting a wash; Poons
Smith; Matta; the role of the incomplete/unfinished in painting; National Art Collection (Incubus);
disappointment in life; the existential posture; Rothko; "look" and "idea;" deKooning; highway
iconography. H.W. works on: Still Life; Portrait demo; Watermelon and Banana on Table; Marbelized
Beef on Table; Chorus Line; Seated chorus Line; drawings; Beach Crowd. H.W. reads: Sargeant; Sense
of Place; A Cry of Angels; Topics in American Art Since 1945; The Maya; Something Happened.
Volume 69
H.W. refers to: God; UF Faculty Show; Banana and Mountain (triptych) paintings; Sargeant; Hobson
Pittman; Van Gogh; the view from the firetower. H.W. reads: Vincent; Thomas Hart Benton.
Volume 70
H.W. refers to: Matta; Burchfield; Knoedlers; Albright-Knox; plasticity/surface; Wyeth; "He" (God);
deKooning; Marlborough Galleries; Rothko estate; chest sensations; New York scene; Carl Van Vechten;
Shakespeare; his approach; Stretched Man; Foster Harmon; The Wyeth phenomena. H.W. works on:

Table; Seated Chorus Line; Still Life demo. H.W. reads: Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades.
H.W. travels to: Tarpon Springs.
Volume 71
H.W. refers to: Foster Harmon; Harry Crews; supplies list; the journals; Delacroix; egg tempera recipe;
glaze recipe; "tough"ness; demo: ear, eye, mouth; Burchfield; overpainting and underpainting. H.W.
works on: Portrait. H.W. reads: Ernest Hemingway. H.W. travels to: Sarasota, Fla., to jury an
exhibition.
Volume 72
H.W. refers to: The Blue Ridge (Brown) Mountain; his birthday and his parents. H.W. works on: Seated
Chorus Lines.
Volume 73
H.W. refers to: the AAUP; the NEA; the FFT; chest pains; need to paint more; Paul Klee; Politics in art;
depravity; New York; Art/Life. H.W. works on: Running Crowd--demo; Chorus Lines. H.W. reads:
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches.
Volume 74
H.W. refers to: Lee Nordness; Joseph Cornell; Poons Smith. H.W. works on: drawings; Crow; 3 Heads;
2 French Breads. H.W. reads: Pygmalion; Here at the New Yorker.
Volume 75
H.W. refers to: Supra Realism; Abstract Expressionism; pornography in art; Hans Bleckner; the wonder
of the universe; list of statements about: a painter's idea, the essential ingredient in the arts; developing
artists; questions referring to his own contribution. H.W. works on: Heads.
Volume 76
H.W. refers to: Golub; Bacon; Harold Rosenburg; Abstract Expressionists; Edmund Wilson; Fairfield
Porter (dies). H.W. works on: drawings for files of New York Times; Op Ed drawings. H.W. reads:
Aesthetics of Mutilation: Leon Golub and Francis Bacon; The Voice and the Myth; Answered Prayers.
Volume 77
H.W. refers to: wisdom; Lee Nordness; the painter's business: creating form to move the viewer toward
emotional grasp of man's experiences. H.W. works on: Portrait demo.
Volume 78
H.W. refers to: violence in art; David Hockney; The Great Sketching Trip; life style; integrity; internal
consistency successfully externalized: Hemingway, deKooning, Hopper, Marin; trip to Tampa; William
Wiley; MoMA; San Francisco; New York. H.W. works on: Fruit; Whirling Figure. H.W. reads: The
Drawing Handbook by Stuart Purser. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Tallahassee, Tampa, Fla.
Volume 79
H.W. refers to: Lasansky's The Nazi Drawings; Rico LeBrun; Charles E. Ives, composer; The Great
Sketching Trip to Tallahassee; David Hockney; Matta. H.W. works on: Florida landscapes; Landscape;
Landscapes from the Great Sketching Trip; Portrait Robert Sabatella; Watermelons; Cantaloupes. H.W.
reads: The Myth of the Eternal Return, or Cosmos and History; Thurber. H.W. travels to: Crescent
Beach, Fla.

Volume 80
H.W. refers to: his health; Gregory Gillespie; Stanley Spencer; tempera recipe; glaze recipe. H.W. works
on: Portraits; Head. H.W. travels to: Cedar Key, Fla.
Volume 81
H.W. refers to: sketching trip; art and politics; career; Lee Nordness; New York; the model; Emil Nolde;
egg tempera demo; Constable; sculptors; his mother; communication; Penn State. H.W. works on: Print-
Out Man; Portrait of Margaret Tolbert; Bananas. H.W. reads: Small is Beautiful. H.W. travel to:
Tampa, Fla.
Volume 82
H.W. refers to: trip to Pennsylvania; time; timelessness; the Sphinx; Mayan ruins; The Night Watch by
Rembrandt; the Sistine Chapel; Buddha; his plane trip; mountains; family vacation in Great Falls;
Charles M. Russell. H.W. works on: Big Picture; Two Female Figures. H.W. travels to: Pennsylvania;
Great Falls, Montana.
Volume 83
H.W. refers to: formality; Point and plane; toughness in art; Nordness; Charles Burchfield; seven art
exam questions (with true/false answer listed); artists as outsiders; list of books enjoyed as a youngster;
other books read; the interior and landscape; what happened in 20th century art; exhibitions. H.W. works
on: Glacier Park Series; drawing; Still Life; Head. H.W. travels to: St. Pete, Fla.
Volume 105
H.W. refers to: dissatisfaction with his work. H.W. works on: Palms, Heads, Chorus Lines.
Volume 106
H.W. refers to: Challenging Man; Phillip Evergood; Stanley Spencer; Paul Nash; Joseph Duveen; Miro;
Dubuffet; Oldenburg; Burchfield; Pollock; Robert Morris; Walter Inglis Anderson; New York Times;
Truman Capote; Giacometti; Willem deKooning; Jim Dine. H.W. reads: Lancelot. H.W. sees: Naked in
the Sun. H.W. travels to: Ft. Matanzas, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Fla.
Volume 107
H.W. refers to: ideas for book on painting; John Marin; Willem de Kooning; Graham Nash; Stanley
Spencer; Jim Dine; Edward Hopper; Charles Burchfield; Bacon; Walter Inglis Anderson; Magritte; Miro;
Dubuffet; Oldenberg; Van Gogh; Seurat; Paul Klee; Avie and Hiram are keeping a pig on their property
for a friend. H.W. works on: Bottles/still life; "dust pans;" Jittering Woman. H.W. reads: Poldark II;
Edward Calvart.
Volume 108
H.W. has a heart attack and lands in the hospital. H.W. refers to: Demuth; Calvin Black; Charles
Burchfield; Jasper Johns. H.W. reads: The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing; The Butler Did It; The Code
of the Woosters; One Hundred Years of Solitude; Demuth; And He Sat Among Ashes; The Fight; Full
Disclosure; Love in the Ruins; Sam Johnson's Boy; A Letter from Father.
Volume 109
H.W. refers to: Williams Blake; Ben Shahn; Burchfield; Elizabeth Cotton; Nordness; Modigliani;
Picasso; Braque; Rothko. H.W. works on: Chorus Lines; Shorebirds; Mountains; his manuscript for
"How I Teach Painting;" Jittering Nude (A Nude for our Time). H.W. reads: Sho-Gun; The Lady and the
Law; Paul Klee; The Island in the Stream; The Legacy of Rothko. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach,
Cedar Key, Fla.

Volume 110
H.W. refers to: random notes (for How I Teach Painting); Van Gogh fields; Motherwell; visual
excitement; William Blake; Franz Kline; Samuel Palmer; Albert Pinkham Ryder; heart attack (14 weeks
prior). H.W. works on: Chorus Line; Skins. H.W. reads: The Log of the Sea of Cortez; The Man Dred;
Nights Black Angels; To be a Pilgrim; The Woman in the Dunes. H.W. travels to: Daytona Beach,
Cedar Key, Fla.
Volume 111
Hiram is in the hospital. H.W. refers to: "How I Teach Painting;" Soutine; Lasansky; Blake; Virginia
Woolfe; Dubuffet; Burchfield; Dine; Marin; Hobson Pittman; Oldenburg; Hopper; Bacon; Jasper Johns;
Frank Stella; R. Soyer; Ensor; Stanley Spencer; Harry Crews. H.W. reads: The Devil's Emissaries; The
Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Lasansky: Printmaker; The Common Reader; Dear Theo; A Childhood;
Busman's Honeymoon. H.W. travels to: St. Augustine, Fla.
Volume 114
This volume begins March 9, 1979 and ends April 10, 1979. H.W. refers to: the American scene in art;
Tom Wolfe; Emily Bronte; Charles Burchfield; Einstein; Cezanne. H.W. works on: Shorebirds. H.W.
reads: Clara Bow. H. W. travels to: Baton Rouge, LA; Lakeland, Fla.
Volume 115
This volume begins April 12, 1979 and ends May 7, 1979. H.W. refers to: R.B. Kitaj; Nordness and
release of work detained in storage in New York; "What I Teach About Painting;" he lists his series of
work. H.W. reads: Modern Scottish Painters. H.W. travels to: East Texas University, Tyler.
Volume 116
This volume begins May 7, 1979 and ends June 12, 1979. H.W. refers to: "What I Teach in Painting;"
New York City; Nordness; Jim Dine; Sylvia Plath. H.W. reads: Claes Oldenburg; Nature Through the
Seasons; An Artist's Notebook; The World According to Garp; Hokusai; Miro; Klee. H.W. works on:
Stretched Man. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach, Cedar Key, Fla.
Volume 117
H.W. refers to: Paul Klee's diaries; Edwin Dickenson; humanistic tradition. H.W. works on: Still Lifes;
Stretched Man Disintegrating. H.W. reads: Flatland; Stanley Spencer; The Horn Island Logs. H.W.
travels to: Tampa, St. Pete, FL.
Volume 118
This volume begins July 31, 1979 and ends Oct. 2, 1979. H.W. refers to: his bad health; he ends up in
hospital; he talks about bouts with Lupus. H.W. works on: Mountain. H.W. travels to: Ft. Matanzas;
Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 119
This volume begins Oct. 4, 1979 and ends Nov. 20, 1979. The Ayotolla Khomeni holds Americans
hostage in Tehran. H.W. refers to: consciousness of the universe; Bacon; Hockney; Frederick Church;
Kitaj; Dine. H.W. works on: Chorus Line; Shorebirds; Head; Seated Chorus Line. H.W. reads: Max
Perkins; To Jerusalem and Back. H.W. travels to: Maitland via Orlando to jury an exhibition, FL;
Louisville, KY.
Volume 120
This volume begins Nov. 20, 1979 and ends Jan 17, 1980. H.W. refers to: Jim Dine; Matta; Michael
Graves; Wyeth; Whistler; Noguchi. H.W. works on: Portrait of Kim (daughter). H.W. reads: A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man. H.W. travels to: Philadelphia, PA

Volume 121
H.W. refers to: perception; his nomination for Professor Emeritus; his visiting artist venture to
Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Stanley Spencer. H.W. works on: Kim's portrait; drawings; Hide; Skinned
Chorus Line; Running Man II. H.W. reads: Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror. H.W. travels to:
Winter Haven, FL to jury a student art show; Hattiesburg, Miss.
Volume 122
This volume begins March 6, 1980 and ends April 30, 1980. H.W. refers to: Stanley Spencer. H.W.
reads: In Search of History. H.W. travels to: Cookham, England (home of Stanley Spencer); Spain;
Augusta, GA.
Volume 123
This volume begins May 1, 1980 and ends June 29, 1980. H.W. refers to: World War II; Stanley
Spencer; Willem deKooning; Goya; Morandi; Hopper; Burchfield; his promotion to Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritus. H.W. works on: Shorebirds; Chorus Lines; Studio; Patriotic Highway.
H.W. reads: On Press; The Death of the Heart. H.W. travels to: Orlando, Fla.
Volume 125
H.W. refers to: Goya; his appointment as Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus; Ernest Thompson
Seton; Pennsylvania memories; George Eddinger, his former art teacher; his own feelings for mountains
and hill meadows; Giacometti; John Burger's views in About Thinking. H.W. reads: The Shadow of a
Rainbow; About Thinking. H.W. travels to: North and South Carolina; Pennsylvania.
Volume 126
H.W. refers to: Fairweather; L.S. Lowry; Stanley Spencer; a show in Alabama; list of five questions
about his own work; Eakins; Dickinson; Gorky; Jasper Johns; Diebenkorn; Estes; the role of painted
interval; obfuscation; dimness; density of objects; figure/ground; formal intensity; Oliveira; Psychological
intensity: Alex Katz; William Wiley; Thomas Hart Benton; Nothing Painting (essay); Point and Plane
(essay); Sources and Ideas (essay). H.W. works on: Drawing of Lenny Kesl; Portrait of Bob Westin;
Nude for Our Time. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla.
Volume 127
H.W. refers to: Reagan; old age; style/expression/intensity/form; Stanley Spencer; Burchfield;
environment; Rudolph Arnheim; Nature's procession; his Lupis; list of retrospective works and their
owners; development of an ides; Thomas Hoving; John Morse (important figure of H.W.'s artistic
development); the army; life; young people; Dorothy Miller. H.W. works on: Studio Table; Portrait of
Bob Larson; Portrait of Hollis Holbrook; drawings. H.W. travels to: St. Pete, FL; North Carolina (to see
the children).
Volume 132
H.W. refers to: Motherwell; Burchfield; Joseph Raphael; the Mint Museum; pollution; Rockwell Kent;
Stretched Man. H.W. reads: Reconciliation Elegy; All Things Wise and Wonderful; Montaillou, the
Promised Land of Error; Rockwell Ken. H.W. travels: to North Carolina to visit the kids.
Volume 133
H.W. refers to: The New Expressionism; trends; hot dogs; Hilton Kramer; Sadat; Begin; His point of
view in painting: re-invention of human figure to comment upon man's mortality and inhumanity to his
kind; life/art comments; Existential man; Graham Sutherland; his health. H.W. works on: drawings;
Chorus Line demo; Chorus Line. H.W. reads: Montallou. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla.

Volume 134
H.W. refers to: Existential Man; Chorus Lines. H.W. works on: Chorus Lines; Tablescapes. H.W.
reads: Extraordinary Popular Delusions.
Volume 136
H.W. refers to: Stanley Spencer; Roger Coleman; Hans Hofmann; Charles Burchfield; Skinned Chorus
Lines; Stretched Men. H.W. works on: Heads; Self-Portrait. H.W. reads: Follow the Bus with the Greek
License Plates; Downland.
Volume 137
H.W. refers to: a retrospective; Lee Nordness; John Sloan; aging. H.W. works on: Portrait of Richard
Heipp; self-portrait; Road; Seated Couples; Highway. H.W. reads: Brideshead Revisited; Marquesan
Encounters; Wealth and Poverty. H.W. travels to: St. Pete, Fla.
Volume 138
H.W. refers to: Stanley Spencer; Lyonell Feininger; Hiram retires. H.W. works on: Tablescape; Florida
Roadscape; Oranges in Bowl; Head. H.W. reads: Stanley Spencer; Aztec. H.W. travels to: Crescent
Beach, Fla.
Volume 139
H.W. refers to: Saul Bellows; John Updike; Wm. F. Buckley; the Kennedys; Edwin Dickinson; Willem
deKooning; Charles Burchfield. H.W. works on: Shorebirds; Mountain; Burned-over Mountain. H.W.
reads: Have His Carcase; The Autobiography of Mark Twain; Lucy (The Beginnings of Mankind);
Hangman's Holiday; The Music Room; The Phantom of the Temple. . H.W. travels to: Cedar Key, FL;
Columbia, SC to see Kim.
Volume 140
H. W. refers to: his angina and feeling quite ill, often; Morandi; working on nudes; approach to new
ideas; his view of and use of female breasts. H.W. works on: Heads; Chorus Lines; Stretched Man;
Turning Man; Shivering Man. H.W. reads: Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker; Picasso on Art.
H.W. travels to: Tyler Texas to give a lecture; Hattiesburg Mississippi to give a lecture
Volume 141
H.W. refers to: retirement; Audience; Samuel Palmer; grandparenthood. H.W. works on: Chorus Lines.
H.W. reads: Hemingway. H.W. travels to: North Carolina to Curt's wedding; Charlotte, NC to see
newborn grandson; St. Louis, PA.
Volume 142
H.W. refers to: aging; Eakins; Goodman; Dickinson; Jim Dine; Philip Guston; New York galleries; Pace
gallery; dignity; ego; heart surgery (December, 1982). H.W. travels to: Philadelphia, PA; Crescent
Beach, Fla.
Volume 143
H.W. refers to: his post-operation health; preparation for his upcoming retrospective; Jim Dine; gratitude
to UF faculty and friends for support; painters outside of New York (in a long letter to a NY critic);
Stanley Spencer; Philip Guston; Balthus. H.W. works on: Mother-in-law portrait; sketches; drawings.
H.W. reads: Travis McGee; Goya; William Blake; Sez Who? Sez Me; The Housebreakers of Shady Hill
and Other Stories; A Painter's Psalms.
Volume 144
H.W. refers to: proofing Notes for a Young Painter, revised and expanded version for Prentice-Hall; a

Virginia snowstorm; Anthony Blunt; Jim Dine; Lautrec; Gauguin; Florida artists; Oral Roberts; Williams
Wiley; Fairfield Porter; Neil Welliver; museums; Edwin Dickinson; Thomas Eakins; Julius Block; N.C.
Wyeth; Andrew Wyeth. H.W. works on: Florida series; Snowscapes. H.W. reads: Ways of Escape.
H.W. travels to: Philadelphia; Brandywine River Museum (home of the Wyeth family).
Volume 145
H.W. refers to: New Yorkers; lack of good biographies out on artist; show at Cummer Gallery,
Jacksonville, FL; Burchfield. H.W. works on: Palm Trees; Chorus Lines; Seated Couples; Seated Chorus
Lines; Landscape. H.W. reads: Jim Dine; Rembrandt; The Rebel Angels; Wiley Territory; Burchfield.
H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 146
H.W. refers to: proofing Notes for a Young Painter; Christians; relationship to his daughter (in a long
letter); trip to Tyler Texas as a visiting artist; Larry Rivers; Alex Katz; Willem de Kooning; death of
Avonell's mother. H.W. reads: Harold Nicholson's Diary; Larry Rivers. H.W. travels to: Tyler, Texas;
Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Fla.
Volume 147
This volume begins Aug. 17, 1983. The Williamses are in Philadelphia, PA. H.W. refers to: the
Philadelphia Museum of Art; he reminisces with an old colleague about teaching at Harrington High
School; worries about aging; remembers reading Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen; art teaching on
television; first days at Ft. Meade; Camus; Malraux; acceptance of revised and expanded manuscript for
Notes for a Young Painter; cloud painters: Bellini; Giorgione; Titian; El Greco; Rubens; Jacob van
Ruisdale; Hobbema; Turner; Constable; Correggio; Homer; Ryder; N.C. Wyeth; Andrew Wyeth's "real
illusion" technique. H.W. works on: Chorus Lines; big Head/Self-Portrait; Tidal Marsh; Orton's Stump;
Landscapes; Horizons West of Tallahassee; Snake Skin in a Landscape; Big Seated Couple; illustrations
for Notes for a Young Painter, expanded and revised. H.W. reads: Wiley Territory; Albert Camus, A
Biography. H.W. travels to: Panama City, FL; Hattiesburg, LA as a visiting artist.
Volume 148
H.W. refers to: Harn Museum of Art; long autobiography; Nietzche; Lenny Bocour; Rauschenberg; the
death of good friend, Walter Herbert. H.W. works on: big Seated Couple; two Landscapes; Heads;
Seated Chorus Line. H.W. reads: Memoirs of Anthony Powell, vol.ii; Messengers of Day; Faces in My
Tune, vol. iii; The Illustrated Pepys; Monsignor Quixote; Life, Law and Letters; By-Line America; The
Book of Naturalists.
Volume 149
H.W. refers to: Hemingway; Picasso; originality; his own writing and painting; religion/pornography; de
Kooning; preparation of Notes to a Young Painter for Prentice-Hall; thoughts of death; reason for poetry
and the arts in this world. H.W. works on: Seated Chorus Lines. H.W. reads: Hemingway; Art of the
Real; Matters of Fact and Fiction; Bumper Crop. H.W. travels to: St. Petersburg, Fla.
Volume 150
H.W. refers to: Harry Crews; his own publishing venture with Prentice-Hall; culling drawings; Ken
Kerslake, printmaker; Tom Wolfe; invention of process for making "skins"; new landscape images; plan
for series of paintings called, "This Time of Men;" Hans Hofmann; the women's movement; Samuel
Palmer; palms; "suggestivism;" failure; Jim Dine; William T. Wiley; Goya. H.W. works on: Seated
Chorus Lines; landscapes; "Skin;" Head; Crevasses; small earth forms. H.W. reads: Blue Highways;
Samuel Palmer; Visionary and Dreamer; Goya, The Origins of the Modern Temper in Art; Gorky; Morris
Graves; Lytton Strachey; Secrets. H.W. travels: on a camping trip in Florida; Naples and St. Petersburg,
Fla.

Volume 161
H.W. refers to: the Audience series, tiny sketch of Audience. II, a Progress of Parasites.
Volume 162
H.W. refers to: The Audience; Bacon; Lee Nordness; Jackson Pollock; Willem deKooning; Jim
McGarrell. H.W. works on: Audience series; Heads. H.W. reads: The Tree; Run with the Horsemen; To
a Violent Grave; Pollock; Samuel Palmer, the Darting Light. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, Fla.
Volume 163
H.W. refers to: Jim Dine; Rauschenberg; "points" in composition; the "muse;" Audiences; Skins; Wayne
Thiebaud; E. Hopper; Picasso; Kitaj; religion. H.W. works on: Heads; Audience series; Skinned Chorus
lines; Palms. H.W. reads: Picasso; Wayne Thiebaud; The Good Soldier. H.W. travels to: Tampa,
Jacksonville, Fla.
Volume 166
H.W. refers to: Atheism; Kitaj; Hodgkins; appropriation; Anselm Kiefer; Malcolm Morley; Running
Man; the diaries; giving demonstrations; Matisse; Monet. H.W. works on: Heads; Head of Lenny Kesl.
H.W. reads: Class. H.W. travels to: Jacksonville, FL; South Carolina (to visit kids).
Volume 170
H.W. refers to: Paynes Prairie I; transforming a painting; grants to support these journals; Bork; Paynes
Prairie series: snakes exalting; snakes in ecstasy; joyful snakes; The Harn Museum of Art; Lucian Freud;
snakes [general]; Fred Guiles; atheists; glazing techniques; e.s.p.; Duchamp; Klee; Miro; Notes for a
Young Painter; Anselm Kiefer; Matta; Rauschenberg; H.W.'s father; sin. H.W. works on: Four
Landscapes; Mountain [painted over a highway with palms]; Figures on a Beach (Beached Figures);
drawings; North Mountain; Bald Eagle Mountain; Mountain; Stretched Man; Four Palms; Two Palms; A
Bouquet for Mrs. Luce; Audience Comes and Goes; Bouquets [series]; Grasses [series]; Perpetual care
[series]; Overhead Men; Studio Table; Crevass; Priest. H.W. reads: The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945; West
With The Night; Hanging on in Paradise; With a Daughter's Eye; Annals of Finance; The House of
Mitford. H.W. travels to: Cedar Key, Fla.