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Stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Growing Pains

Rites of Passage

On University Way

Susanne K. Langer: Philosopher of Art & Science

Elizabeth Bishop in Seattle & San Francisco

Guy Anderson in the Skagit Valley

With Mark Tobey in New York

Madame Pomier's Pension

Mark Tobey in Basel

Index of Names

About the Author

Wesley Wehr , painter and composer, is affiliate curator of paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History, University of Washington. He is the author of The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Reviews

"The Accidental Collector..reads as if it were a Sunday afternoon chat with a dear friend you haven't seen in many years."
*The Bloomsbury Review*

"A masterpiece of informal yet informed history about the artistic and intellectual life of western Washington during the 1950s and '60s. Wehr writes with intimacy and warmth, creating intertwined, breathing portraits of some of the 20th century's most fascinating artists."
*The Bellingham Weekly*