Hiram Williams Diaries

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.