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Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B.

A Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Karen B.

Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist.Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything.Unless otherwise noted, all works are created by Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) © Woody Guthrie Publications and provided courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Archives.Īll lyrics by Woody Guthrie © Woody Guthrie Publications and/or WGP/TRO-Essex Music Group. Influencing countless musicians worldwide, Guthrie lived by these simple words: “All you can write is what you see.”

The only thing that eventually stopped him was Huntington’s disease, which would first sap his creative output and then take his life.Īn American original, Woody Guthrie had become a national treasure by the time of his death. He wrote almost daily, pulling ideas from newspapers and conversations he heard on street corners and picket lines. Guthrie was also a painter, poet, illustrator, letter writer, novelist, diarist, and more. He celebrated the beauty of the land and the brilliance of the nation’s spirit. He fought fascism, corruption, and capitalism gone wild. Along the way, Guthrie became the voice of the forlorn farmer, the luckless laborer, the careworn immigrant, the angry union worker, and anyone else in the country’s shadows. Then it was on to New York and other stops on the American map. Escaping the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, Guthrie hit the road with a guitar and notebook, making his way to California with thousands of other Americans seeking a better life. He penned well over three thousand songs, including “This Land Is Your Land,” a tune that Bruce Springsteen once said was the best ever written about America. Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) was one of the United States’ greatest songwriters and storytellers.

Masterworks collection love and corruption