In GRATITUDE to the ARTISTS WHO LEAD and INSPIRE ME

Saul Steinberg

whose minimal lines are a stunning wealth and always inspire

Raoul Dufy

who showed me at age 4 the power of thin black lines over colored shapes

Pablo Picasso

who made a royalty of line

Agnes Mills

who filled my life with art

The Asian Brush Painters

who still lead us along those lines

Alexander Calder

who mentored my mother and moved lines through space by wire

Paul Curtis

who taught me to Qualify Extremities

R. Stine

whose lines share wit and insight

Roz Chast
Maria Kalman

and other female innovators
who helped break the ink ceiling and create new paths through the field

And gratitude to the cartoonists contributing over eons to the New Yorker Magazine, the Funny Times, and to the comics sections of our local newspapers. Outside and inside of us, they keep the candle burning.

Lineage Links:

Saul Steinberg
https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org
https://www.wikiart.org/en/saul-steinberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Steinberg
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/saul-steinberg-4620

Raoul Dufy:
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/dufy-raoul
https://www.wikiart.org/en/raoul-dufy

Pablo Picasso
https://www.pablopicasso.org/drawings.jsp
https://books.google.com/books
https://www.menil.org/exhibitions/245-picasso-the-line

Agnes Mills
agnesmillsart.weebly.com
https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/5002/Mills/Agnes
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/agnes-mills-papers-16144

Asian Brush painters
Chinese:
Chinese Watercolors by Josef Hejzlar
Qi Baishi:
https://fascination+of+Nature+Qi+Baishi
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/qi-baishi
Japanese:
http://www.sumiesociety.org/whatissumie.php
https://www.sfexaminer.com/art-of-zen-sf-asian-art-museum
https://www.brushmind.net/exhibitions
https://www./the-art-of-japanese-sumi-e-painting

Alexander Calder:

Paul Curtis:
https://www.americanmimetheatre.org/story
https://paul-j-curtis-founder-american-mime-theatre-1927-2012
https://youtu.be/_-hiQrwOKrw?si=TCywJmhtswmZdJOV
https://www.mcall.com/paul-curtis-theories-of-mime

R. Stine:
https://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile
https://richardstinememoir.com/home
https://archive.org/details/worldofrichardst00stin

Roz Chast:
https://rozchast.com
https://www.nytimes.com/roz-chast-art
https://www.danesecorey.com/artists/roz-chast

Maria Kalman:
https://mairakalman.com
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/maira-kalman-finds-truth-in-the-mess
https://www.theguardian.com/maira-kalmans-women-holding-things
https://www.artofthepicturebook.com/2021/8/13/interview-with-maira-kalman