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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.
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