An Excellent Collection of Six Letters from Writer and Spectator Editor Iain Hamiliton to Artist Anthony Rossiter

Iain Hamiliton SIGNED

Published by UK, 1966

About this Item

An Excellent Collection of Six Letters from Writer and Spectator Editor Iain Hamiliton to Artist Anthony Rossiter. Typed and handwritten with two very long letters and includes very good artistic and literary content. Written between 1966 and 1973. From a large collection of the artists letters. Anthony Rossiter RWA MSIAD was a British landscape painter who was educated at Eton and studied painting at Chelsea Art School from 1947-51. He was a romantic visionary, a ?poet? whose heaven was the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Gnarled hedgerows, tumbling stone walls, broken gates, reflections in water and ploughed fields were all his subject matter. His works also included portraits, most notably that of W.H. Auden. Anthony Rossiter began his correspondence with Huxley and Osmond while writing his autobiography, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). From the ecstasy of the creative high to the agonising despair of depression, The Pendulum was the creative artist?s riposte to the cult success of Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus, 1954). Where Huxley induced heightened perception by carefully controlled experiments with mescaline, Rossiter?s swings came naturally and without warning. Iain Bertram Hamilton 1920 ? 1986 was a Scottish journalist, author and poet. All in good condition with light creasing. A few rusting paper clip marks. Letters of various sizes. Ref18838.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Excellent Collection of Six Letters from Writer and Spectator Editor Iain Hamiliton to Artist Anthony Rossiter
• Publisher: UK
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• Binding: Paper
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)