Author: George Herms (San Jose)
Title: George Herms: Poet Heroes of My Youth, 1999
Description: San Jose, CA: Frederick Spratt Gallery, 1999. Dealer Catalogue. 18mo. Soft Covers. 24 pp. Very Good. Signed with his first name only with a dedication to Gerry and Paula on the back cover. The "Poet Heroes" included Ata, (Marjorie) Cameron, Kirby Boyle, Diane DiPrima, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Kenneth Patchen, The Stone Brothers (Wallace Berman & Robert Alexander) and Lew Welch. Color plates. Catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery September 8 to November 1, 1992. Acknowledgments by Edward Leffingwell; main text (essay, titled 'A Drug Store for Artie') by Leffingwell and Herms. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA) (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-1977). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. .

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