Tomie had asked his friend, potter Jon Keenan, to create an urn, for his ashes, featuring his personal symbol, “Tree by Living Water,” Psalm 1. https://biblehub.com/psalms/1-3.htm (Bob)
REMEMBERING TOMIE on April 19, 2020
This page was in a booklet that presented students awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree in 1968-1969 from the California College of Arts and Crafts. In case the print is too small to read… “The Heart Stomper is often found near innocence. It has long legs and big feet and a loud mouth. The stamina of the Heart Stomper is very well known.” The second drawing on the right depicts a woman in a substantial garment. Her tiny face peers out from the large head hood and yells, “Boo!” (Bob)
REMEMBERING TOMIE on April 18, 2020
1959. Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker” was the first-ever theatrical production at the new Sawyer Center at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH. Tomie was hired to create sets and perform. I think his character was Barnaby Tucker. I believe the other actor in this photo was Jack Straw. (Bob)
REMEMBERING TOMIE on April 17, 2020
Left to Right: Brother Buddy, Mother Flossie, Grandfather Tom, Tomie. (Bob)
REMEMBERING SAINT TOMIE on April 16, 2020
Tomie raised a lot of money for Trina Schart Hyman’s partner Jean’s school, Open Fields School in Thetford, Vermont, in 2004. (Trina Schart Hyman was one of Tomie’s best friends and an award-winning writer and illustrator of books for children.) After Tomie presented Jean with the money, Trina began working on a “Saint Tomie” painting. But, she went into the hospital and never returned home. At her memorial in her home, Jean and Trina’s daughter Katrin told Tomie to go to Trina’s studio and look on her drawing table. This drawing was there. They gave it to Tomie. (Bob)
