Provides an engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes of the painters, poets and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s.

As a young artist and musician, Wesley Wehr became a friend and often a confidant of many of the painters, poets, and musicians who lived or worked in the Northwest in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on his journals, Wehr provides an engagingly written, intriguing, and informative series of vignettes of painters Mark Tobey, Pehr Hallsten, Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves; photographer Imogen Cunningham; gallery owner Zoe Dusanne; poets Thoedore Roethke, Richard Selig, Elizabeth Bishop, and Leone Adams; philosopher Susanne Langer; musicians Ernest Bloch and Berthe Poncy Jacobson; and actor Margaret Hamilton. Wesley Wehr is affiliate curator of paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington. He has served as curator of numerous art exhibitions and is a leading authority on Mark Tobey.

Contents
Acknowledgments
A Totemic Introduction
Some Painters &
A Photographer
Conversations with Mark Tobey
Out of Nature: Mark Tobeyis Art
Pehr Hallsten &
Mark Tobey
Helmi Juvonen: The Nordic Pearl
Guy Anderson
Morris Graves: An Evening in Loleta
Zoe Dusanne: Impresario of the iNorthwest Schooli
Imogen Cunningham in San Francisco
Some Poets &
A Philosopher
Theodore Roethke in the Classroom
Richard Selig
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop &
Susanne Langer: A Conversation on University Way
Leonie Adams in Seattle
Some Musicians &
An Actor
Student Days: Queen Anne High School &
the University of Washington
Ernest Bloch at Agate Beach
Berthe Poncy Jacobson
Margaret Hamilton: The Wicked Witch of the West
Biographical Notes
Index of Names