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	• The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary Reynolds Price John F. Blair Publisher, 1997 average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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How I love connections! This book contains a beautiful poem and a scholarly article both inspired by F.C. Frieseke's painting "The Garden Parasol." F.C. Frieseke was my grandfather; the primary figure in the painting portrays his wife, my grandmother Sadie. You can find images of "The Garden Prasol" and many other Frieseke paintings by searching the web.

In this same collection, I found a wonderful poem by James Applewhite, who was my poetry teacher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His poem was inspired by Winslow Homer's painting, "Weaning the Calf." I had "chosen" this painting as the one I would most like to take home from the museum (their Frieseke is too big for my condo)!

For several years I lived across the street from another author represented in this book, Fred Chappell, who was then a professor at UNC-G. Although I was not priviledged to take any of his courses, I did enjoy a poetry reading of his in 1973.

I recommend "The Store of Joys" to all lovers of visual arts, literature, North Carolina, and interdisciplinary studies. The reproductions are excellent, and the authors' reactions add so much to our appreciation.

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On March 26th, 2000, I visited the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, where I found this marvelously creative book in their gift shop. Prominent North Carolina authors were asked to choose a work of art from their permanent collection and comment on it.

How I love connections! This book contains a beautiful poem and a scholarly article both inspired by F.C. Frieseke's painting "The Garden Parasol." F.C. Frieseke was my grandfather; the primary figure in the painting portrays his wife, my grandmother Sadie. In this same collection, I found a wonderful poem by James Applewhite, who was my poetry teacher at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His poem was inspired by Winslow Homer's painting, "Weaning the Calf." I had "chosen" this painting as the one I would most like to take home from the museum (their Frieseke is too big for my condo)!

For several years I lived across the street from another author represented in this book, Fred Chapell, who was then a professor at UNC-G. Although I was not priviledged to take any of his courses, I did enjoy a poetry reading of his in 1973.

I recommend "The Store of Joys" to all lovers of visual arts, poetry, literature, and interdisciplinary studies. The reproductions are excellent, and the authors' reactions add so much to our appreciation.

Please visit my website on F. C. Frieseke at: go.to/frieseke

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To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the North Carolina Museum of Art plans to stage several special events involving all the arts in the state. As a part of this celebration, the Museum invited some of the state's major writers and poets to contribute responses to works from the Museum's permanent collection. The contributors were asked to submit a previously unpublished poem or a work of short fiction or creative nonfiction that connected the written word with the visual representation. The book that evolved from this project includes new works from forty-five writers and poets. Each written piece appears adjacent to a full-color reproduction of the artistic piece which inspired the writer. The anthology includes 19 poems, 13 non-fiction essays, and 13 fiction pieces. For example, Alan Shapiro responded to the image of a victorious hero on an ancient Greek vase by composing a poem about men weeping_and more generally about notions of sexuality, a subject he has examined in his recent work. Inspired by Milton Avery's "Blue Landscape," Lee Smith wove a haunting tale about a lonely little girl named Daisy who finds solace with an "orchard girl" on a nearby ridge. With The Store of Joys, the Museum has created a lasting tribute to its own collection and to the literary genius for which the state has become so well known.

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