Wednesday, April 28, 2010

People Worth Knowing #1


A CHRONICLE OF FRIENDSHIPS 1873-1900.
LOW, Will H.

These are a couple of books that are easy and fun to read and you get to meet Robert Louis Stevenson and the Gilders and John Singer Sargent and everyone along the way that was anyone then.



A Painter's Progress: Being a Partial Survey Along the Pathway of Art in America and Europe (1910) Will H. Low



A good guy. And an interesting painter at times- if you like half naked ladies in gowns in the woods. I'm kinda of partial. He even did designs for our currency:

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