The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, Friendship.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. First Hardcover Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The painter and paleontologist Wesley Wehr has collected the stories and profiles of Pacific Northwest artistic and intellectual life in the 1950s and 1960s. Above all, these are Wehr’s accounts, distilled by passionate recollection, of what some remarkable artists and thinkers including Mark Tobey, William Cummings, Kenneth Callahan, and Elizabeth Bishop brought out in him and in each other--stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another. Item #29503
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