(On extended vacation)
Books read:
Sue Taylor (Ed) Winslow Homer in Gloucester
Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1980
(A well-illustrated exhibition catalog with a number of critical essays, concentrating on the post-Civil War period during which Homer’s interests changed from illustration to fine art.)
Terry Neff (Ed) Gerhardt Richter
Thames and Hudson, New York, 1988
(A somewhat challenging read about a very challenging artist. There is very little of Richter’s earlier work that I understand, and I fear that this book failed to broaden my understanding.)
Robert Hughes Nothing If Not Critical
Penguin Books, New York, 1992
(A very challenging book to read. The author is erudite, opinionated, and seldom uses a common word when a rare one will do. The essays which make up the book must be read, and often re-read, slowly and carefully. This is not a comprehensive volume, but the subjects with which it deals are dealt with in considerable depth. This is one of the more important books that I have read this year, and one of the few from which I took notes for further inquiry as I read. I was both relieved and saddened to reach the end.)
Sketchbook work: Twenty-three small sketches in my travel sketchbook, execution times ranging from a few seconds to half an hour.
Time for this period: 14 hours 23 minutes
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