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The Accidental Collector

Art, Fossils, and Friendships

Wesley Wehr

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English
University of Washington Press
01 April 2004
Stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another Readers who fell in love with The Eighth Lively Art will delight in the stories and profiles that the painter and paleontologist Wesley Wehr has collected in this follow-up to his earlier memoir 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 brought out in him and in each other - stories of creative people and how they inspired, influenced, challenged, and occasionally infuriated one another.

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Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   517g
ISBN:   9780295983820
ISBN 10:   0295983825
Pages:   336
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGrowing PainsRites of PassageOn University WaySusanne K. Langer: Philosopher of Art & ScienceElizabeth Bishop in Seattle & San FranciscoGuy Anderson in the Skagit ValleyWith Mark Tobey in New YorkMadame Pomier's PensionMark Tobey in BaselIndex of Names

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 for The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, and Friendships

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


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