Hiram Williams Diaries

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.