On Tue, 15 Nov 1994, margaret laraia wrote:
 
> I am inviting people to engage in a conversation regarding authors who
> also produced noteworthy art.
> The poetry of E.E. Cummings has been a recurrent interest of mine and I
> have just discovered his
> work in the graphic arts.  As a result, I am preparing a paper on
> Cummings' dual role as poet and
> graphic artist and am exploring how the work in the two fields influenced
> each other.  Any and all
> information regarding Cummings or of other author/artists would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Please send by November 30.
>
>            -Margaret LaRaia
>  (a slightly desperate graduate student)
>
 
   I'm pretty sure that Harvard's Widener Library has a collection of
e.e. cummings' drawings.  I haven't got the slightest idea whom one would
talk to, but the general info number is (617) 495-2413.
 
   Also, I would check out _Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by
Artists and Critics_, ed. Herschel Chipp (U. Cal. Press, 1968, and, I
think, recently reprinted).  It is a reader of writings by artists,
usually about art, but many of the contributors also wrote fiction and/or
poetry.
 
   I'd also check out the small press artists' book scene and the zine
scene.  Something like Factsheet5 would be invaluable (available in some
alternative bookstores, and occasionally in hip record stores).
 
   Hope these suggestions help, Toby