Please help us transcribe these letters in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. Your transcriptions will be featured in an forthcoming publication, "The Art of Handwriting." In our age of e-mails, texts and tweets, when handwritten letters have ceased to be a primary mode of person-to-person communication, this book will explore what we can learn from the handwriting of artists including Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, and Thomas Eakins.
Please help us transcribe these letters in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art. Your transcriptions will be featured in an forthcoming publication, "The Art of Handwriting." In our age of e-mails, texts and tweets, when handwritten letters have ceased to be a primary mode of person-to-person communication, this book will explore what we can learn from the handwriting of artists including Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, Willem de Kooning, and Thomas Eakins.
The letters show that an artist might put pen to paper just as he or she would apply a line to a drawing.
The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the page. Free-spirited scribbled letters trip over each other, and distinctive dashes help direct traffic. Some crossed t’s and dotted i’s stand alert, and others slump or sway into their neighbors. Every message brims with the personality of the writer at the moment of interplay between hand, eye, mind, pen, and paper.
