Walker, Anne, 1933-

Abstract

The collection contains 34 books executed primarily in gouache and pastel by Walker with poetry or lines from various authors living or dead. Poets and writers include Michel Butor, Peter Davison, Emily Dickinson, Edward Kessler, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett and Henry David Thoreau. Also included in the collection is correspondence related to the books, exhibition materials, and general publicity on Walker.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of approximately twenty-seven printed exhibition catalogs, announcements, sale catalogs, and reproductions of artwork by Bertrand Dorny and Anne Walker (dated 1976-2012, in English and in French). Also a DVD, "Les livres de Bertrand Dorny 1962-2007." There also is correspondence concerning the exhibitions of Anne Walker's and Bertrand Dorny's work at Smith College and Mount Holyoke College (1993-1994), correspondence with Michel Butor (1994), a letter (1994) from Ed...