Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney (White Lion Publishing, 2019), Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain and The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.

• 006 Introduction1 ‘I saw the new giraffe’Family & FriendsSalvador Dalí to Paul ÉluardFrancisco Lucientes y Goya to Martín ZapaterLucian Freud to Stephen SpenderVanessa Bell to Duncan GrantMichelangelo Buonarroti to Lionardo di Buonarroto SimoniPhilip Guston to Elise AsherBeatrix Potter to Noel MoorePiet Mondrian to Kurt SeligmannGustav Klimt to Josef LewinskyJasper Johns to Rosamund FelsenEdward Burne-Jones to Daphne GaskellWilliam Blake to William HayleyAlexander Calder to Agnes Rindge ClaflinZhu Da to Fang ShiguanCamille Pissarro to Julie PissarroMarcel Duchamp to Suzanne DuchampDorothea Tanning to Joseph Cornell2 ‘Like a sleepwalker’Artist to ArtistPaul Gauguin to Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh to Paul GauguinSebastiano del Piombo to Michelangelo BuonarrotiPaul Signac to Claude MonetDavid Alfaro Siqueiros to Jackson Pollock, Sande Pollock and Harold LehmanPablo Picasso to Jean CocteauMark Rothko to Lee KrasnerÉdouard Manet to Eugène MausDavid Hockney to Kenneth E. TylerFrancis Picabia to Alfred StieglitzRobert Smithson to Enno DevelingClaude Monet to Berthe MorisotUlay and Marina Abramović to Mike ParrMike Parr to Marina Abramović and UlayBenvenuto Cellini to MichelangeloJohn Constable to John Thomas Smith3 ‘Your book on witchcraft’Gifts & GreetingsCindy Sherman to Arthur C. DantoJoseph Cornell to Marcel DuchampLeonora Carrington to Kurt SeligmannWang Zhideng to a friendYayoi Kusama to Donald JuddGeorge Grosz to Erich S. HerrmannYoko Ono and John Lennon to Joseph CornellJoan Miró to Marcel Breuer4 ‘The best I have painted’Patrons & SupportersGuercino and Paolo Antonio Barbieri to unknown recipientNancy Spero to Lucy LippardPierre-Auguste Renoir to Georges CharpentierRoy Lichtenstein to Ellen H. JohnsonPeter Paul Rubens to Balthasar GerbierCy Twombly to Leo CastelliWinslow Homer to Thomas B. ClarkeEva Hesse to Helene PapanekMary Cassatt to John Wesley BeattyJackson Pollock to Louis BunceLeonardo da Vinci to Ludovico SforzaEgon Schiele to Hermann EngelWilliam Hogarth to T.H.Joseph Beuys to Otto MauerAgnes Martin to Samuel J. WagstaffJudy Chicago to Lucy Lippard5 ‘Hey beautiful’LoveFrida Kahlo to Diego RiveraJoan Mitchell to Michael GoldbergJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Marie-Anne-Julie ForestierPaul Nash to Margaret OdehAd Reinhardt to Selina TrieffJules Olitski to Joan OlitskiJean Cocteau to unknown recipientAlfred Stieglitz to Georgia O’KeeffeGeorgia O’Keeffe to Alfred StieglitzAuguste Rodin to Camille ClaudelCamille Claudel to Auguste RodinBen Nicholson to Barbara HepworthEileen Agar to Joseph Bard6 ‘My 1244 guilders’Professional MattersNicolas Poussin to Paul ScarronHenry Fuseli to unknown recipientHenry Moore to John RothensteinJames McNeill Whistler to Frederick H. AllenJoshua Reynolds to Philip YorkeAnni Albers to Gloria FinnNaum Gabo to Marcel BreuerRembrandt van Rijn to Constantijn HuygensGustave Courbet to Philippe de ChennevièresAubrey Beardsley to Frederick EvansKazimir Malevich to Anatoly LunacharksyJohn Linnell to James MuirheadAndy Warhol to Russell Lynes7 ‘I hope to get to Venice’TravelEdward Lear to Hallam TennysonBerenice Abbott to John Henry Bradley StorrsGeorges and Marcelle Braque to Paul Dermée and Carolina GoldsteinJohn Ruskin to unknown recipientHelen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell to Maria and Hans HofmannAlbrecht Dürer to Willibald PirckheimerCarl Andre to Eva HesseFrancis Bacon to Erica BrausenAna Mendieta to Judith WilsonLee Krasner to Jackson Pollock8 ‘I see better’Signing OffThomas Gainsborough to Thomas HarveyPaul Cézanne to Émile BernardTimelineIndexPicture Credits

"This attractive volume includes letters from artists to fellow artists, friends, patrons and lovers. Hearing from artists in their own words gives an extraordinary glimpse into their lives and artistic thought process. Some of these people could paint with words, too!"

Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney (White Lion Publishing, 2019), Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain and The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.

• 006 Introduction1 ‘I saw the new giraffe’Family & FriendsSalvador Dalí to Paul ÉluardFrancisco Lucientes y Goya to Martín ZapaterLucian Freud to Stephen SpenderVanessa Bell to Duncan GrantMichelangelo Buonarroti to Lionardo di Buonarroto SimoniPhilip Guston to Elise AsherBeatrix Potter to Noel MoorePiet Mondrian to Kurt SeligmannGustav Klimt to Josef LewinskyJasper Johns to Rosamund FelsenEdward Burne-Jones to Daphne GaskellWilliam Blake to William HayleyAlexander Calder to Agnes Rindge ClaflinZhu Da to Fang ShiguanCamille Pissarro to Julie PissarroMarcel Duchamp to Suzanne DuchampDorothea Tanning to Joseph Cornell2 ‘Like a sleepwalker’Artist to ArtistPaul Gauguin to Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh to Paul GauguinSebastiano del Piombo to Michelangelo BuonarrotiPaul Signac to Claude MonetDavid Alfaro Siqueiros to Jackson Pollock, Sande Pollock and Harold LehmanPablo Picasso to Jean CocteauMark Rothko to Lee KrasnerÉdouard Manet to Eugène MausDavid Hockney to Kenneth E. TylerFrancis Picabia to Alfred StieglitzRobert Smithson to Enno DevelingClaude Monet to Berthe MorisotUlay and Marina Abramović to Mike ParrMike Parr to Marina Abramović and UlayBenvenuto Cellini to MichelangeloJohn Constable to John Thomas Smith3 ‘Your book on witchcraft’Gifts & GreetingsCindy Sherman to Arthur C. DantoJoseph Cornell to Marcel DuchampLeonora Carrington to Kurt SeligmannWang Zhideng to a friendYayoi Kusama to Donald JuddGeorge Grosz to Erich S. HerrmannYoko Ono and John Lennon to Joseph CornellJoan Miró to Marcel Breuer4 ‘The best I have painted’Patrons & SupportersGuercino and Paolo Antonio Barbieri to unknown recipientNancy Spero to Lucy LippardPierre-Auguste Renoir to Georges CharpentierRoy Lichtenstein to Ellen H. JohnsonPeter Paul Rubens to Balthasar GerbierCy Twombly to Leo CastelliWinslow Homer to Thomas B. ClarkeEva Hesse to Helene PapanekMary Cassatt to John Wesley BeattyJackson Pollock to Louis BunceLeonardo da Vinci to Ludovico SforzaEgon Schiele to Hermann EngelWilliam Hogarth to T.H.Joseph Beuys to Otto MauerAgnes Martin to Samuel J. WagstaffJudy Chicago to Lucy Lippard5 ‘Hey beautiful’LoveFrida Kahlo to Diego RiveraJoan Mitchell to Michael GoldbergJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Marie-Anne-Julie ForestierPaul Nash to Margaret OdehAd Reinhardt to Selina TrieffJules Olitski to Joan OlitskiJean Cocteau to unknown recipientAlfred Stieglitz to Georgia O’KeeffeGeorgia O’Keeffe to Alfred StieglitzAuguste Rodin to Camille ClaudelCamille Claudel to Auguste RodinBen Nicholson to Barbara HepworthEileen Agar to Joseph Bard6 ‘My 1244 guilders’Professional MattersNicolas Poussin to Paul ScarronHenry Fuseli to unknown recipientHenry Moore to John RothensteinJames McNeill Whistler to Frederick H. AllenJoshua Reynolds to Philip YorkeAnni Albers to Gloria FinnNaum Gabo to Marcel BreuerRembrandt van Rijn to Constantijn HuygensGustave Courbet to Philippe de ChennevièresAubrey Beardsley to Frederick EvansKazimir Malevich to Anatoly LunacharksyJohn Linnell to James MuirheadAndy Warhol to Russell Lynes7 ‘I hope to get to Venice’TravelEdward Lear to Hallam TennysonBerenice Abbott to John Henry Bradley StorrsGeorges and Marcelle Braque to Paul Dermée and Carolina GoldsteinJohn Ruskin to unknown recipientHelen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell to Maria and Hans HofmannAlbrecht Dürer to Willibald PirckheimerCarl Andre to Eva HesseFrancis Bacon to Erica BrausenAna Mendieta to Judith WilsonLee Krasner to Jackson Pollock8 ‘I see better’Signing OffThomas Gainsborough to Thomas HarveyPaul Cézanne to Émile BernardTimelineIndexPicture Credits

"This attractive volume includes letters from artists to fellow artists, friends, patrons and lovers. Hearing from artists in their own words gives an extraordinary glimpse into their lives and artistic thought process. Some of these people could paint with words, too!"

Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney (White Lion Publishing, 2019), Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain and The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time. He is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter.

• 006 Introduction1 ‘I saw the new giraffe’Family & FriendsSalvador Dalí to Paul ÉluardFrancisco Lucientes y Goya to Martín ZapaterLucian Freud to Stephen SpenderVanessa Bell to Duncan GrantMichelangelo Buonarroti to Lionardo di Buonarroto SimoniPhilip Guston to Elise AsherBeatrix Potter to Noel MoorePiet Mondrian to Kurt SeligmannGustav Klimt to Josef LewinskyJasper Johns to Rosamund FelsenEdward Burne-Jones to Daphne GaskellWilliam Blake to William HayleyAlexander Calder to Agnes Rindge ClaflinZhu Da to Fang ShiguanCamille Pissarro to Julie PissarroMarcel Duchamp to Suzanne DuchampDorothea Tanning to Joseph Cornell2 ‘Like a sleepwalker’Artist to ArtistPaul Gauguin to Vincent van GoghVincent van Gogh to Paul GauguinSebastiano del Piombo to Michelangelo BuonarrotiPaul Signac to Claude MonetDavid Alfaro Siqueiros to Jackson Pollock, Sande Pollock and Harold LehmanPablo Picasso to Jean CocteauMark Rothko to Lee KrasnerÉdouard Manet to Eugène MausDavid Hockney to Kenneth E. TylerFrancis Picabia to Alfred StieglitzRobert Smithson to Enno DevelingClaude Monet to Berthe MorisotUlay and Marina Abramović to Mike ParrMike Parr to Marina Abramović and UlayBenvenuto Cellini to MichelangeloJohn Constable to John Thomas Smith3 ‘Your book on witchcraft’Gifts & GreetingsCindy Sherman to Arthur C. DantoJoseph Cornell to Marcel DuchampLeonora Carrington to Kurt SeligmannWang Zhideng to a friendYayoi Kusama to Donald JuddGeorge Grosz to Erich S. HerrmannYoko Ono and John Lennon to Joseph CornellJoan Miró to Marcel Breuer4 ‘The best I have painted’Patrons & SupportersGuercino and Paolo Antonio Barbieri to unknown recipientNancy Spero to Lucy LippardPierre-Auguste Renoir to Georges CharpentierRoy Lichtenstein to Ellen H. JohnsonPeter Paul Rubens to Balthasar GerbierCy Twombly to Leo CastelliWinslow Homer to Thomas B. ClarkeEva Hesse to Helene PapanekMary Cassatt to John Wesley BeattyJackson Pollock to Louis BunceLeonardo da Vinci to Ludovico SforzaEgon Schiele to Hermann EngelWilliam Hogarth to T.H.Joseph Beuys to Otto MauerAgnes Martin to Samuel J. WagstaffJudy Chicago to Lucy Lippard5 ‘Hey beautiful’LoveFrida Kahlo to Diego RiveraJoan Mitchell to Michael GoldbergJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Marie-Anne-Julie ForestierPaul Nash to Margaret OdehAd Reinhardt to Selina TrieffJules Olitski to Joan OlitskiJean Cocteau to unknown recipientAlfred Stieglitz to Georgia O’KeeffeGeorgia O’Keeffe to Alfred StieglitzAuguste Rodin to Camille ClaudelCamille Claudel to Auguste RodinBen Nicholson to Barbara HepworthEileen Agar to Joseph Bard6 ‘My 1244 guilders’Professional MattersNicolas Poussin to Paul ScarronHenry Fuseli to unknown recipientHenry Moore to John RothensteinJames McNeill Whistler to Frederick H. AllenJoshua Reynolds to Philip YorkeAnni Albers to Gloria FinnNaum Gabo to Marcel BreuerRembrandt van Rijn to Constantijn HuygensGustave Courbet to Philippe de ChennevièresAubrey Beardsley to Frederick EvansKazimir Malevich to Anatoly LunacharksyJohn Linnell to James MuirheadAndy Warhol to Russell Lynes7 ‘I hope to get to Venice’TravelEdward Lear to Hallam TennysonBerenice Abbott to John Henry Bradley StorrsGeorges and Marcelle Braque to Paul Dermée and Carolina GoldsteinJohn Ruskin to unknown recipientHelen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell to Maria and Hans HofmannAlbrecht Dürer to Willibald PirckheimerCarl Andre to Eva HesseFrancis Bacon to Erica BrausenAna Mendieta to Judith WilsonLee Krasner to Jackson Pollock8 ‘I see better’Signing OffThomas Gainsborough to Thomas HarveyPaul Cézanne to Émile BernardTimelineIndexPicture Credits

"This attractive volume includes letters from artists to fellow artists, friends, patrons and lovers. Hearing from artists in their own words gives an extraordinary glimpse into their lives and artistic thought process. Some of these people could paint with words, too!"