Portraits of Genius Friends
Sandra Hochman seemingly knew everyone, and throughout her life, she captured those friends' likenesses in one-of-a-kind watercolors that now adorn the walls of her Manhattan apartment. Hochman's Portraits of Genius Friends is a rare glimpse into the world of one of America's singular literary voices and reveals a life lived amongst some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, including Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, George Plimpton, Phillip Roth, Milos Forman, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Elie Wiesel, Leonard Bernstein, Allen Ginsburg, James Baldwin, and, believe it or not, many more.
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Book details
- Created by
- Sandra Hochman
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 104
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Artists, Architects, Photographers
Art › Subjects & Themes › Portraits - Topics
- watercolor portraits · women artists · 20th century artists · literary friendships · celebrity portraits · Manhattan art world · artist memoirs
- ISBN-13
- 9781683367338
About the author
SANDRA HOCHMAN is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet and the author of six volumes of poetry, six novels, and two nonfiction books, with four additional literary works from Turner Publishing.
Hochman’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she served as a columnist for Harper’s Bazaar. She also directed the 1973 documentary Year of the Woman.
When she’s not writing, Hochman ran the foundation You're an Artist Too at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, teaching poetry and songwriting to children ages 7–12 for fifteen years, and collaborated on musical productions in New York.