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Slides, Photos, Negatives, Miscellany

6/14/2021

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"Are you really sure we've cleaned out ALL the drawers and boxes and weird storage areas up under the eaves, collecting all these things?"
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Maximum Utilization of Horizontal Surfaces
The Covid-19 isolation has taken its toll on everyone, and there have been no posts here for all that time. Will, I am pleased to announce, appears to have gotten through unscathed. Our best wishes to all of you reading this and your families. We hope that you are well, and... vaccinated.

In the past month, the organization of Will's papers has gotten underway, as nests of slides and photos and whatnot around the house and studio have steadily been consolidated and prepped for full-scale reorganization. Many poignant images have emerged of Will and Helen's early years at the Menunketesuck Ironworks Studio in Clinton. 

What I am calling "Stage III" of the reorganization has now been completed. The majority of Will's slides have been located and roughly sorted by chronological order, and "Stage IV" is ready to begin. Stage IV will involve determining the content of the preserved material, and separating rare original images of early work from the many duplicate slides and photos that shuttled back and forth between artist, gallery, and agent for so many decades.

Stage V will be the exciting transfer of the entire catalogue of original slides (and negative and photographs) to high quality digital.

I am hoping to take time out from the process to post new images here. Additionally, Will is finishing work this summer on the Henry Zietlow Memorial Trophy.  I am working to set up that page right now. It is, in some ways, a companion piece to the beautiful Head-of-the-Charles Regatta Championships Doubles rowing trophy that was produced in memory of Olympian Sy Cromwell in the 1970s, but in others--a very new kind of piece. That first was produced in memory of a contemporary. The new piece: Will produces it as the proud grandparent of five. It has been sober work indeed, honoring the dead friend of three of his grandchildren.
--KAR
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Amur Tiger

2/20/2020

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Amur Tiger
Como Zoo, Saint Paul, MN

Graphite on ivory-toned paper
~16" x 24"

As always, getting a quality photo of a beautiful drawing is the real challenge! --KAR

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Elephants, Franklin Park Zoo, 1992

5/1/2018

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Happy May Day! It feels like vandalism to post Will's drawings with the glare of reflective glass ghosting over the image.... But this one recently went out to a private collection and this is the best image we have of it.
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When the model doesn't come...

4/18/2018

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Wait, watch, & draw what's in front of you.

WPR sketch, 2018

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Recent Animal Drawings

7/4/2016

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Will has been continuing to head west to work on site on his series of farm animals, especially of "Captain" and "Fred" the Irish mid-weight draft horses.

The bicoloring has been an engaging technical challenge.
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Highland Cow, May 2015

5/28/2015

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Concord, MA.  Will went looking for the big Holstein bull, but it didn't want to come to the drawing-accessible side of the pasture.  Discretion triumphing, Will did not climb in  for a closer look (despite "Jim's" reputation for docility).

This one, however, found the carrots enough of a temptation to wander over for a closer investigation of the man with the drawing pad...


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Irish Mid-Weight Draft Horses: II

4/17/2015

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Irish Mid-Weight Draft Horse, Drawing ©2015 by William P. Reimann
Will did a lot of preliminary drawings, and there's a series of completed works that we're all enjoying very much.  Here's one of the mid-size ones (original pencil image, 16" x 14")
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Saving those bits of scrap wood

6/7/2014

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Okay, so maybe it can be worth it, saving all those little bits of scrap lumber...

My brother sent along this photo, commenting that Will "made this out of a scrap piece of 1x4 fir."

Turned out pretty well, I'm thinking!

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Completed April, 2014 - published here in June...

6/7/2014

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15 Carp. Pennsylvania Slate, 36" Square. Two stage sandblast.

This is not the most elegant way to relaunch this blog, but at least it shows the beautiful, engaged work that Will has been caught up in over the winter.

Much beautiful new stonework - more, and better, pictures will follow.

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Spring Stones

4/17/2013

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Left: Granite, "Crenellation Coil, 2013 Spring Series (1)"
Right: Basalt, "Double Spiral, 2013 Spring Series (4)"

The note I got from Will: "Did four of these, all slightly different shapes, about the same time, once I got interested in the 'loop' motif.  The granite with ochre flecks [on left] is about 7" - 8" inches [one of three similarly sized stones, two not depicted here].   Basalt [on right], about 2.5" x 1 13/4".   Little fellow!"

The new stone blasting site he's been using has worked out well, and there's a backlog of images that I need to put up.

Happy Spring to all!

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    Will is a sculptor and draftsman, living and working in Cambridge, MA.

    This site is maintained by his daughter, Katya

    Artwork depicted on this site that is not given a collector's citation may be available, though the primary purpose of this site is not as a sales center.  Many singular items are in the family or private collections and NFS.

    Will continues to accept commissions, as time permits.

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