The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, and Friendships

by Wesley Wehr

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295983825
• ISBN13: 9780295983820
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Artists and fossils

Mr. Wehr has written another great book about the poets and artists that he has known. He continues where his first book leaves off. This is a collection of bits and pieces about the lives of such people as Mark Tobey, Guy Anderson, Morris Graves, and Elizabeth Bishop. He also has included in this book, more about his own life, and how he went from being a composer to a painter then to a palentologist at the Burke Museum in Seattle. He had plans to write a third book, but, unfortunately, his life was cut short when he died last year or the year before. In this book, Mr. Wehr discusses the many fossils and stones he found beachcombing. It's a great insight into the Northwest artist community of the fifties, sixties and seventies, as well as an introduction into fossil hunting. I wonder if they are still finding fossil in Republic, Washington? I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in art or beachcombing. It will set your mind dreaming. Can I paint? Can I go to a beach and find fossil sand dollars? I hope that Mr. Wehr left notes for that third book, and that someone will publish it. I want more!