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More than Words Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

9781616893668

More than Words Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art

  • ISBN 13:

    9781616893668

  • ISBN 10:

    1616893664

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 03/10/2015
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
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Summary

Our widely celebrated compendium of illustrated letters is now available in paperback. Drawn from the largest repository of artists' papers in the world, More Than Words features correspondence with wives, lovers, friends, patrons, clients, and confidants by such revered artists as Winslow Homer, Frida Kahlo, Andrew Wyeth, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Calder, Gio Ponti, and Andy Warhol. Picturing the world around them in endearing vignettes, landscapes, portraits, and caricatures, these gorgeous letters reveal the joys and successes, loves and longings, disappointments and frustrations of their legendary lives.

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