Picturing the World: The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen

by Nancy Willard, Martin Provensen, Hilary Willard

"Picturing the The Art of Alice and Martin Provensen";
November 19, 2005-March 12, 2006.
"The Well-Tempered Book", by Nancy Willard.
Catalog Design by Rita Marshall,
23 Illustrations,
Paper, 32 pp, 8 ¾" x 8 ½",
1,000 Copies, First Edition. From "Acknowledgments," by H. Nichols B.
"...We recognize that much of what is on view constitutes a seamless collaboration between Alice and her late husband Martin. During a project, they passed works back and forth, so that their hands are virtually inseparable. Since Martin's death in 1987, Alice has continued to create wonderful books. They cover a broad spectrum of subject matter, crossing time and space. Her independent books retain the affinity for a flow and sequence of image both she and Martin learned in the animation studios during the 1940s. Of equal importance, their books forged an ongoing passion for an untutored naive art -- from Edward Hicks to Douanier Rousseau -- that reflect the simple, rural life the Provensens embraced in the 1950s."

Genres: Art

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2005

About the author

NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She wrote dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She also authored two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lived with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.