The Notebooks Mary V. Dearborn The first of Chester Himes's

The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones

completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942

from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and gridded grey paintings and use of color in various formats

Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit

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The Notebooks Mary V. Dearborn The first of Chester Himes'sA facsimile edition of the artist's fascinating working notebooks Brooklyn born Jean Michel Basquiat (1960 88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene, he inventively explored the interplay between words and images throughout his career, first as a member of SAMO, a graffiti group active on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s, and then as a painter acclaimed for his unmistakable Neoexpressionist