{"product_id":"sketchbook-9780295985602","title":"Sketchbook","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows the work of an exceptional and successful regional artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bill Cumming is at once an exceptional and successful regional artist and one of the most erudite, perceptive, and entertainingly cantankerous characters in this part of the world. He tells what it was like to be an artist in the Great Depression, tells tales out of school about such international luminaries as Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, tells how the Northwest School (of which he was the youngest member) developed, tells about the early success -- and ultimate failure -- and shows how the political, economic, and cultural events of a half-century affected the life of a region and of its creative minority.\" Tom Robbin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Thirties\u003cbr\u003e I Call On an Old Friend\u003cbr\u003e I Remember an Earlier Day\u003cbr\u003e And Still Earlier\u003cbr\u003e Indian Summer, 1937\u003cbr\u003e What Was It?\u003cbr\u003e Artists, 1937\u003cbr\u003e I Meet Morris\u003cbr\u003e The Town Crier\u003cbr\u003e The Group of Twelve\u003cbr\u003e To Think About It All\u003cbr\u003e I Go to Dinner\u003cbr\u003e I Step Through the Door\u003cbr\u003e New Friends Arrive\u003cbr\u003e Breakfast with Morris\u003cbr\u003e I Look at Kenneth's Mural\u003cbr\u003e I Meet Two Friends in the Library\u003cbr\u003e Dinner at Ken and Margaret's\u003cbr\u003e Paris Fifteen Miles from Tukwila\u003cbr\u003e Friends\u003cbr\u003e Sour Notes\u003cbr\u003e A Portrait and What Happened to It\u003cbr\u003e Storm Clouds\u003cbr\u003e The Bohemian Life\u003cbr\u003e Guy Anderson\u003cbr\u003e Trip to La Conner\u003cbr\u003e Voyage to the South\u003cbr\u003e Mark\u003cbr\u003e John Cage and the Cornish Riot\u003cbr\u003e Lubin's Anabasis\u003cbr\u003e The Northwest School\u003cbr\u003e The Rock\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe People\u003cbr\u003e Art Project Sketches\u003cbr\u003e Hans Bok\u003cbr\u003e Faye Chong\u003cbr\u003e Ransom Patrick\u003cbr\u003e Dick Correll and Wellington Groves\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Elshin\u003cbr\u003e Julius Twohy\u003cbr\u003e Salvador Gonzales\u003cbr\u003e The Spokane Art Project\u003cbr\u003e Emma Stimson\u003cbr\u003e George Mantor\u003cbr\u003e Jim Stevens\u003cbr\u003e Mrs. Harold Davis\u003cbr\u003e Ted Abrams\u003cbr\u003e Ivar Haglund\u003cbr\u003e Walter Isaacs\u003cbr\u003e Malcolm Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Betty MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Richard E. Fuller\u003cbr\u003e Bernard Flageolle\u003cbr\u003e Johnny Davis\u003cbr\u003e Betty Bowen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Artist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524695761239,"sku":"9780295985602","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295985602.jpg?v=1731857786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sketchbook-9780295985602","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}