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Volume 48 H.W. refers to: Burchfield; metaphor in painting; Ben Shahn; John Morse (who gave a few drawing lessons to H.W. as a kid); Wyeth; Bacon; Watergate; Paul Klee; Poons Smith. H.W. works on: Stretched Man; Still Lives; Portrait of Rizzi. H.W. reads: Malabar Farm; Art of the Times; Diaries of Paul Klee; Pop Art. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach; Crescent Beach; Tallahassee; Orlando, Fla. Volume 49 H.W. refers to: Walter Inglis; Watergate; [art] problems; Van Gogh (texture as expression); El Greco (distortion as expression); plane/field; modulation; the nature of points; weights; families of shapes in figuration; horizon(s); Exercise: paint in flat hue; open brush stroke; Miro; Wyeth; Nordness; his wedding. H.W. works on: Stretched Man; Crowd; Skin; Hollis Holbrook at Crescent Beach; Skinned Pot. H.W. reads: The Gulag Archipelago; Fair Man. Volume 50 H.W. refers to: Jim Dine; William Wiley; humans; men; James Thrall Soby; Edwin Dickinson; Seldon Rodman; John Morse; Watergate; Paul Klee; Watergate #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Nixon; impeachment; [recipe for] medium for tempera underpainting a la Rubens. H.W. works on: Skinned Wrench; Stretched Man; Mountains; Macadam Landscapes; Watergate 7; Stretched Man with Kukla Belly. Volume 51 H.W. refers to: The landscape [in art]; Hopper; plasticity; curved planes; space; horizon(s); Watergate; Stanley Spencer. H.W. works on: Outlines of Objects; Hollis Holbrook at Crescent Beach; Stretched Figure; Meat Tables; Watergate. H.W. reads: Edward Hopper; Dylan Thomas. H.W. travels to: Crescent Beach, FL. H.W. sees: The Three Musketeers. Volume 52 H.W. refers to: Joseph Duveen; Abstract Expressionism; dealer/artist/museum/collector/critic relationship; deKooning-Hess; Rivers-Sam Hunter; Stella-B. Rose; Guston-Dore Ashton; Oldenburg- Baro; Noland-Greenburg; Warhol; Rivers; Rauschenberg; Johns; Harold Rosenberg; The "star system;" Miro; Stanley Spencer; H.W. as a teacher; Bewisck; Sam Johnson; Richard Jeffries; Joplin; Morenson; Hopper; Watergate; Nixon. H.W. works on: Meat Table(s); Banana(s); French Bread; Apple; Banquet (Meat Tables). H.W. reads: Everglades: River of Grass. H.W. travels to: New Jersey; Pennsylvania; North Carolina. Volume 53 H.W. refers to: Nixon; Watergate; Ford; the Hiram Williams Collection at University of Texas, Austin; Lee Nordness; John Morse (letter to); Ernest Thomspson Seton; Henry James; Hemingway; Bacon; Burchfield; Klee; Miro; Duchamp; Johns; true nature of expression; Stanley Spencer. H.W. works on: Portrait of Marshall New; Meat Tables; Wine Bottles. H.W. reads: A Short History of the Civil War; Ordeal by Fire; Goodbye Picasso; Hogarth; Shahn; Nevelson. H.W. travels to: Tallahassee, FL. Volume 54 H.W. refers to: Frankenthaler; Rothko; Watergate; Nordness; the Whitney; Kenneth Hayes Miller; the "Big Look;" Chagall's observation; Charles Burchfield; New York chauvinism; landscape painting; Glackens; Thomas Hart Benton. H.W. reads: To Keep Art Alive; Plain Speaking; To Appomattox (Nine Days 1865); Benton's Lithographs; Glackens and The Ash Can School. Volume 55 H.W. refers to: Portraits and photography; on demonstrating portraiture; list of portraits H.W.'s done (rated from so-so to excellent); Glackens; Henri; Lawson; Shinn; Davies; Luks; Prendergast; Sloan (The
Eight); Nordness;l chest pains; Watergate; T.S. Elliot; John Russell. H.W. reads: Glackens Biography; John Sloan; John Sloan's Prints; Dogs of War; Art and Reality. H.W. travels to: Tampa, Fla. Volume 56 H.W. refers to: Painting (should not be...); Watergate; Lee Nordness; painting (is about...); assimilate; What is Art? (an outline); Cezanne; Stella; Watergate; Watergate I; the Whitney; painting technique; tempera underpainting recipe; health; little death/big death; faculty show. H.W. works on: Watergate II; Banana(s); Collages; drawings; Chorus Line(s); Stretched Man; Jess Atkins Portrait. H.W. reads: Sailing Alone Around the World; In Search of Goethe from Within; The New Humanism: Art for Changing Times. Volume 57 H.W. refers to: Wyeth; the ozone; Rembrandt; Y.B. Yeats; Padriac; Mary Colum; George Luks; Glackens; Henri; the Prendergasts; Bellows; Everett Shinn; Alan Seegar (the poet); Joaquin Miller; Rockewell Kent; John Quinn (the collector); Ezra Pound; the Cedar Bar Group in New York; Sam Johnson; Barbizon group; Impressionism; Concord and Boston circles; the "Last Generation: in Paris The Bloombury Group; The Pre-Raphaelites; the Fauves; the German Expressionists; observations (of his own personality); Lee Nordness Whistler; Picasso; Miro; Michelangelo; Thomas hart Benton; Glackens; Stanley Spencer; Lasansky; deKooning; Klee; Watergate 6; underpainting (outlines process); history of watercolor: Blake, Cotman, Crome, Turner, Homer, Cezanne, Sargeant, Demuth, Marin, Burchfield, Wyeth; demonstration (outline). H.W. works on: Road; Portrait of Mike Kemp; Highway; Mountain. H.W. reads: John Sloan; The Bog People; Zen and Art of Archery; Whistler; Jaws. Volume 58 H.W. refers to: Harry Crews; Chorus Line; Blue Ridge Mountain; Poons Smith; Oliveira. H.W. works on: Mountain triptych; Brown Mountain, North Carolina; Patriotic Road. Volume 59 H.W. refers to: Nordness; List of short painters: Whistler, Benton, Miro, Picasso, deKooning, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Williams, Lautrec; Tom Wolfe; trip to Mexico; Matta; Vietnam; breeder ideas. H.W. travels to: Mexico Volume 60 H.W. refers to: Nordness; egg tempera; encaustic; deKooning, Francis Bacon; Rivera; Velasco; Mexican landscapes; the Whitney; Golub; Motherwell. H.W. works on: Bananas; Stretched Man; Stretched Figure; Mountain. H.W. reads: Applehead. H.W. travels to: Matanzas Beach, Fla. Volume 61 H.W. refers to: notes on technique for painting and drawing; border; wash; draw; concepts and landscape; Morandi; Dickinson; Lee Nordenss; Bacon; World War I aces; New York trip; Whitney; Reginal Marsh; Robert Miller; Emmerich; Gorky; Poon's Smith. H.W. works on: Grandfather Mountain; Bananas; Stretched Man; Undulating; Skinned Stretched Man. H.W. reads: The Artist's World; Erotic Art. H.W. travels to: New York (for the Francis Bacon Exhibition). Volume 62 H.W. refers to: Tom Wolfe; Wayne Thiebaud; aspects of the human figure; Williams's symbolic language; Williams Pachner; Joseph Jeffries Dodge; problems for art students: still life and abstraction, interior, landscape, mountain landscape, problems of overall field. H.W. works on: Big Banana; Victim; Bananas; Some Parallel; Landscape; drawings; Skinned Torsos. H.W. reads: The American University; Islands in the Stream.
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