Dwight Williams Signed (2 results)

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two Original Handwritten and Signed Letters by American Artist Dwight Williams. Dated 1892 and 1894. Two very long letters to the same friend discussing his travels to England, religion, his artistic work, health and other family issues. Very detailed and informative. Dwight Williams (1856 - 1932) was active/lived in New York. Dwight Williams is known for Atmospheric landscape, rural scene painting, portraits. The son of a Methodist minister, Dwight Williams attended Cazenovia Seminary where he studied painting under John Calvin Perry. Williams became head of the seminary's art department in 1885. He later moved to Virginia, teaching painting at Norfolk College and then the National Park Seminary in Washington, D.C., before returning to New York in 1900. An avid outdoorsman, Williams painted landscapes, which are among his best work. Paintings by Williams are in numerous public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Phillips Collection, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Sizes are 170mm x 115mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18813. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971, he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II, switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program, and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun, whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how, while returning to earth, he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in order to test paranormal phenomena scientifically. He offers us a tour of Western thought from Aristotle to Newton, arguing that intuition and science were divorced until the advent of Einstein and quantum physics. We hear a lot about synchronicity, left and right brain, and the concept that psychic events are quantum exchanges in the brain that link us with the larger world. From "Kirkus". Inscribed by Author(s).