Stevens' Books at the Huntington: An Annotated Checklist (Concluded)
MJ Bates - The Wallace Stevens Journal, 1979 - JSTOR
The Wallace Stevens Journal, 1979•JSTOR
The remnant of Stevens' art library now at the Huntington manifests the same catholicity of
taste. There are books dealing with Flemish painting and Chinese sculpture, religious folk
art and surrealism, German marionettes and French comic strips. French painting of the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries is especially well-represented, with items on Arp,
Matisse, Rousseau, Rouault, Yves Tanguy, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard. Only a stray
brand or two remains of the journalistic fuel which fired Stevens' enthusiasm for …
taste. There are books dealing with Flemish painting and Chinese sculpture, religious folk
art and surrealism, German marionettes and French comic strips. French painting of the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries is especially well-represented, with items on Arp,
Matisse, Rousseau, Rouault, Yves Tanguy, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard. Only a stray
brand or two remains of the journalistic fuel which fired Stevens' enthusiasm for …
The remnant of Stevens' art library now at the Huntington manifests the same catholicity of taste. There are books dealing with Flemish painting and Chinese sculpture, religious folk art and surrealism, German marionettes and French comic strips. French painting of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries is especially well-represented, with items on Arp, Matisse, Rousseau, Rouault, Yves Tanguy, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard.
Only a stray brand or two remains of the journalistic fuel which fired Stevens' enthusiasm for contemporary French art. In periodicals like Le Point, he first encountered some of the artists-Tal Coat, for one (see L 583-84, 594)-whose work he would buy and enjoy. t
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