ARTISTS' LETTERS

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists’ Letters is a collection of intriguing entertaining moving significant surprising witty and insightful correspondence from great artists. Arranged thematically it includes writings and musings on love work daily life money travel and the creative process.  On the theme of friendship for example letters provide evidence of a creative community between peers with support and mutual appreciation that helps to dispel the myth of the artist as solitary genius. Letters between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin show an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas. We see mutual admiration between Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot and Picasso’s quick notes to Jean Cocteau illustrate their closeness. Letters some of which includes sketches and drawings are reproduced with the transcript and some background and contextual information alongside.  Artists include: Salvador Dali Goya Lucian Freud Vanessa Bell Michelangelo Mondrian Gustav Klimt Jasper Johns Edward Burne-Jones William Blake Marcel Duchamp Dorothea Tanning Paul Gauguin Vincent van Gogh Picasso Mark Rothko David Hockney Monet Marina Abramovic Cindy Sherman Joseph Cornell Leonora Carrington Wang Zhideng Yayoi Kusama Yoko Ono Renoir Rubens Eva Hesse Cy Twombly Roy Lichtenstein Mary Cassatt Jackson Pollock Leonardo da Vinci Joseph Beuys Judy Chicago Frida Kahlo Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe Auguste Rodin Camille Claudel Henry Moore Joshua Reynolds Rembrandt Whistler Anni Albers Naum Gabo Kazimir Malevich Francis Bacon Ana Mendieta Lee Krasner Andy Warhol