Hiram Williams Diaries

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 H.W. refers to: Poons Smith (his unpublished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;