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Stuart Williams : his world and his art

Title
Stuart Williams : his world and his art / [biographical sketch by] William Corbett ; with an essay by Adrienne Jacobson.
Publication
Brooklyn : Pressed Wafer, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Williams, Stuart.
  • Corbett, William, 1942-
  • Jacobson, Adrienne.
Description
131 pages; 28 cm
Summary
"Stuart Williams had, in the words of his older brother Frank, "a mystical connection with animals." He dreamed of becoming a farmer, but having learned to draw at the age of six he became an artist, in his teens showing his work in venues throughout his hometown, Peterborough, New Hampshire. He traveled to Switzerland, the home of his beloved Toggenburg goats, and to Kenya, Tanzania, and the Serengeti plains. He read avidly about animals, domestic and wild, and watched all the documentary films on animals he could find. "Each of his drawings suggests," the Boston Globe's art critic Sebastian Smee has written, "an enviably deep, somehow magical identification with animals." ... Williams is that rare artist who worked under the constraints, physical and mental, of an incurable genetic disorder-Prader-Willi syndrome. He had the remarkable luck of being born into the right family in the right place, and he honed that with an art that transcended the impossible odds of his birth"--Jacket.
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Contents
Stuart Williams : his world and his art / by William Corbett -- Prader-Willi / by William Corbett -- The farmer's dream / by Adrienne Jacobson.
Call Number
JFF 18-211
ISBN
  • 9781940396293
  • 1940396298
OCLC
1005079158
Title
Stuart Williams : his world and his art / [biographical sketch by] William Corbett ; with an essay by Adrienne Jacobson.
Publisher
Brooklyn : Pressed Wafer, [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Williams, Stuart. Works. Selections.
Corbett, William, 1942- Stuart Williams.
Corbett, William, 1942- Prader-Willi.
Jacobson, Adrienne. Farmer's dream.
Research Call Number
JFF 18-211
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