I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.
I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
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