"Epiphany" Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36, 2003
Summertime is when most of us take vacations, go away, go on a diet, visit friends and family, sweat a lot, wear funny hats and slack off. And that includes me. Though, I really never slack off exactly. Anyway, for a variety of reasons, I need to cut back on computer time… embracing what I call Blogging Lite: less blog, more other stuff. I’ll be around. But away from the keyboard and the big monitor. You can still find me stalking my friends on Facebook and Twitter via the iPhone, though.
The art won’t stop either. Since the end of May, I’ve been spending solid hours and full days in the studio creating a new series of large mixed media paintings, working like a maniac, being happy, focused and tired; which makes it hard to shift gears and crank up the PC at the end of the day. Plus my neck is still healing and my physical therapist won’t let me. But I’m making plans and exciting business changes which I will tell you about in September. It’s all good. I promise.
And to keep you thinking about art and the creative people who make it happen, please enjoy my own private Summer Reading List. These favorite biographies comprise a large portion of my personal collection. My newest read is Dorothea Lange – A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Enjoy!
Top 40 Favorite Biographies ( In no particular order)
Chuck Close-Life by Christopher Finch
Matisse (both volumes) by Hillary Spurling
Frida- A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrara
Night Studio- A Memoir of Phillip Guston by Musa Meyer
Picasso (all three volumes) by John Richardson
Diane Arbus, A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
Margaret Bourke White- A Biography by Vicki Goldberg
Chagall- A Biography by Jackie Wullshager
Full Bloom – The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
deKooning –An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Art Lover- A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by Anton Gill
The Girl with the Gallery- Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market by Lindsay Pollack
Leonardo, the Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly
Rembrandt’s Eyes by Simon Schama
Goya by Robert Hughes
Duchamp by Calvin Tompkins
Diego Rivera by Pete Hamill
Steglitz- A Beginning Light by Katherine Hoffman
Basquait- A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban
The Art of Maurice Sendak by Selma G. Larus
MC Escher – His Life and Complete Graphic Work by Abradale Press
Arshile Gorky – His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera
Jackson Pollock- An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory Whitesmith
Modigliani – A Life by Jeffery Meyer
Walker Evans by James R. Mellow
Schultz and Peanuts – A Biography by David Michaelis
Andrew Wyeth- A Secret Life by Richard Meryman
John Jay Audobon- The Making of An American by Richard Rhodes
Mary Cassatt- A Life by Nancy Mowill Mathews
NC Wyeth – A Biography by David Michaelis
Walt Disney- An American Original by Bob Thomas
M- The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb
Gaudi- A Biography by Gijs Van Hensbergen
Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel by Judith and Neil Morgan
Edward Hopper- An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin
Mark Rothko by James E. B. Bielik
Eakins Revisted – The Secret Life of An American Artist by Henry Adams
Norman Rockwell – A Life by Laura Claridge
Berthe Morisot The First Lady of Impressionism by Margaret Shennan
©Ann Haaland, 2010
