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The Robert Genn Twice-Weekly Letters, 960 pages--ten years of over a thousand unabridged letters including an 82 page index. Six by nine inches and more than two inches thick, this beautiful book is hardbound Red Cayenne with a separate dust-jacket, a red ribbon, and shipped in a custom protective book-box.

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Mirrors black and clear
by Anne Shingleton, Tuscany, Italy
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The Dispute, original painting by Anne Shingleton
The Dispute
original painting
artwork by Anne Shingleton

"My studio is never without a large mirror mounted on an easel (so that it can be moved about), and a small handheld black mirror (which is actually a black shiny glass tile). The large mirror serves to give me a fresh view of my painting from a distance and in reverse. This way, in a small studio I can get distance from a large painting.... Continued >


The disappearing teacher
by Robert Wade, Australia
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Soho Steps NYC, watercolour painting<br>19 x 29 inches by Robert Wade
Soho Steps NYC
watercolour painting
19 x 29 inches
artwork by Robert Wade

"The art of teaching art is eventually to make oneself unnecessary, to make the students find their way without the teacher. We can think of ourselves not as teachers but as gardeners. A gardener does not "grow" flowers. He tries to give them what he thinks they need and they grow by themselves... Continued >

Last modified: Nov 26, 2009, Copyright 2009 Robert Genn, All Rights Reserved