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