Description
Book SynopsisAs a young artist and musician Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on his journals, Wehr provides an engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes of painters Mark Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves; photographer Imogen Cunningham; gallery owner Zoe Dusanne; poets Thoedore Roethke, Richard Selig, Elizabeth Bishop, and Leonie Adams; philosopher Susanne Langer; musicians Ernest Bloch and Berthe Poncy Jacobson; and actor Margaret Hamilton.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
A Totemic Introduction
1. Conversations with Mark Tobey
2. Out of Nature: Mark Tobey’s Art
3. Pehr Hallsten and Mark Tobey
4. Helmi Juvonen: The Nordic Pearl
5. Guy Anderson
6. Morris Graves: An Evening in Loleta
7. Zoe Dusanne: Impresario of the “Northwest School”
8. Imogen Cunningham in San Francisco
9. Theodore Roethke in the Classroom
10. Richard Selig
11. Elizabeth Bishop in Seattle
12. Elizabeth Bishop and Suzanne Langer: a Conversation on University Way
13. Leonie Adams in Seattle
14. Student Days: Queen Anne High School and the University of Washington
15. Ernest Bloch at Agate Beach
16. Berthe Poncy Jacobson
17. Margaret Hamilton: the Wicked Witch of the West
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
