Artistic resumé

Painting
Galleries:

  • Addison/Ripley Gallery, 9 Hillyer Court, Washington, D.C. Show Feb. 1992
  • Portal Gallery, 16A Grafton St., Bond St., London Wall Focus Gallery, Chester, Ct. Show summer, 1992

Exhibitions:

  • "Plants and Bugs" (one-man), Davison Art Center, Wesleyan, 1965
  • Connecticut Watecolor Society, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.1965
  • Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, Washington, D.C., l968, 1969
  • "The Art of Botanical Illustration," Olin Library, Wesleyan, 1969
  • Group show, Ponce Museum, P.R., 1969
  • "Ants and Alphabets" (one-man), Portal Gallery, London, 1971; and Davison Art Center, Wesleyan, 1971
  • National Miniaturists' Association, Nutley, N.J., 1972 (prizewinner)
  • "The National Portrait Gallery" (one-man) USIS Library, New Delhi; and Wesleyan Center for the Arts Gallery, 1974
  • "Trompe l'oeil minis (part II)" (group), New Britain Museum of American Art, 1974
  • Second National Small Painting Exhibition (group), Gallery North, Mount Clemens, MI., 1974; toured Dakotas and Alaska 1974-5
  • "Alphabets: paintings and etchings since 1965" (one-man), Wesleyan Center for the Arts Gallery, 1978
  • "Architecture and Life, 1830-1981" (curated exhibition of local art and history),Wesleyan Center for the Arts Gallery, 1981
  • "Little Visits of the Good and the Great to Wesleyan," (one-man, collages), Davison Art Center Gallery, Wesleyan, 1982
  • "American Life in American Prints," auspices of USICA (organized by James Tanis, Bryn Mawr College), toured the Netherlands, West Germany, France, Roumania, 1982-83
  • "Prints and Paintings" (one-man), Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library, Dec. 1983-May 1984
  • "Old Florida," (one-man) Addison-Ripley Gallery, 1986; St. Petersburg (FL) Historical Society, 1987; Rare Books Library, University of Florida, Gainesville, l988; Bushnell Gallery, Hartford, CT, 1989
  • "Visions of Hartford," State Capitol (auspices Hartford Preservation), (group), second prize
  • "Indian Days, American Lives," United States Information Library, New Delhi, India, Jan. 1992; Wall Focus Gallery, Chester CT, May 1992
  • "Neighborhoods," (one-man) Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington DC, Feb.- Mar. 1992
  • "First Ladies in Space" (one-man) Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washing ton D.C. 1995
  • "Chief Exectuives Under Water" (one-man) Addison-Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1999

    Private Collections:

    Paul Horgan, Anne Fremantle, Mrs. A. J. Liebling, Mr. and Mrs. Herman W. Liebert, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Wilbur, Sir Herbert and Lady Read, Mary Hyde, the Rev. Winthrop Brainerd, Eleanor Ward, Mrs. A. M. Staempfli, Mr. and Mrs. Ved Mehta, Samuel Adams Green, Harold Hugo, Sen. and Mrs. Daniel P. Moynihan, Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Cater, VADM and Mrs. Kleber S. Masterson, Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Rubinstein, the Duke of Bedford, Christopher Ricks, Alan Pryce-Jones, Brian Aldiss, Jessie Emmett, Frank Fenton, Charles Blitzer, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Pottle, W. S. Lewis, Diana Trilling, Phyllis Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kopit, Lois Gould, Nancy Milford, Gavin MacLeod, Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Brandt, Bernard Rafferty, William Manchester, Lane Kirkland, W. S. Merwin, Phyllis Rose and Laurent de Brunhoff, Annie Dillard, Robin Williams
    Public Collections:
    Bryn Mawr College Library; Yale University, Collection of American Literature, Arts of the Book Collection, and Elizabethan Club, Yale University; Harvard Magazine; The Middletown Press, Modern Media Institute of St. Petersburg Fl. Times, library of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, St. Mary Church, Middletown, CT
    Published drawings, paintings; medals

    • "A Gallery of Clerihews," Biographies by Paul Horgan, Busts by Joseph Reed (privately printed for Clark Kimball, Santa Fe, N.M.) 1983
    • "The Annotated Clerihew," Brief Lives by Paul Horgan," with an introduction and notes by W. Leeming, Effigies by Joseph Reed (privately printed for Clark Kimball, Santa Fe, N.M., 1984)
    • College English, December 1974- , drawings, collages
    • Harvard Magazine, Summer 1975-Spring 1977 (four paintings)
    • "English in America: a Radical Critique of a Profession," New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 (jacket painting)
    • "FAT, an anthology," edited by Kit Reed (drawing and illustration) New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975
    • "Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782," ed. by J. W. Reed and F. A. Pottle (jacket painting), New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977
    • "The Yale Alphabet," (privately printed)
    • "The Wesleyan Alphabet" (Wesleyan University, 1983)
    • "Campus Center Alphabet" (Wesleyan University, 1984
    • "Wesleyan University Press Alphabet" (Wesleyan University Press, l984)
    • "Wittgenstein Alphabet," "Gertrude Stein Alphabet" and "Johnsonian Alphabet" in College English; the Stein in Yale University Library Gazette and the Johnsonian privately printed for the Johnsonians, l984.
    • The Johnson Medal, Pembroke College, Oxford (struck by the Paris Mint for the Johnsonians, December l984)
    • The Elizabethan Club Medal, Yale University (struck by the Paris Mint for the Yale Elizabethan Club, 1987)
    • The Medal for Excellence in History of Medicine, UCLA (cast by Johnson Mint for UCLA Medical School, 1988)
    • St. Petersburg alphabet (commissioned by Historical Museum) 1993
    • Booksellers alphabet (for William Reese & Co.) 1993
    • American Alphabet (Meriden-Steinhour) 1993
    • Veronica Lake (cover painting, "Weird Women Wired Women") Wesleyan University Press, 1998
    • Freeman Medal (Wesleyan University) 1999

    About the work:

    • "Painting by Letter: Professor Reed and his Botanical Alphabets," by Christopher Reed, in Horticulture, Feb. 1982, pp. 61-64
    • "The Strange Art of Professor Reed," Hartford Courant Magazine, 1978 (and another article by James B. McEnteer, 1971)
    • "Go to the Ant," by Alphonsus B. Mitchell, Wesleyan Alumnus (Spring l972); and another piece on the "Little Visits" show, (l982); a piece on the medals, (2000)
    • "Joseph W. Reed" - Website retrospective of the artist's work, by Mack Reed (2003)
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    Academic resumé

    Born: St Petersburg FL, 31 May 1932
    Education: St Petersburg public schools
    Yale University BA 1954, MA 1958, PhD 1961
    Service: ENS, LTJG USNR 1954-56: USS Macon, Great Lakes NTC
    Married: Kit Reed, 10 December 1955; children: Joseph McKean (1959), John Craig (1961), Katherine Hyde Maruyama (1967)M
    Research and teaching:

    • 1951-4 Boswell Papers, undergraduate bursary assistant
    • 1956 researcher, ms. of BoswellÕs Life of Johnson
    • 1956-57 manuscript cataloguer, Rare Book Room, Yale Library
    • 1957-60 research asst., Yale Edition of Walpole's Correspondence
    • 1960- Wesleyan Univ., instructor (1960), asst. prof. (1961), assoc. prof. (1967), prof. of English (1971), chairman of English (1971-73, 1975-76), acting director of American Studies (1985-6), prof. of English and American Studies (1986), acting director film program (1993)
    • 1974 visiting lecturer, Yale lecturer, U. S. Department of State and USIS: Toronto, New Delhi, Calcutta, Kathmandu. Guest of honor, con- ference of North Indian Faulknerians
    • 1990-92 International exchange, 1990,1992,1993: supervised (with Kit Reed) Writers' Workshop for Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, auspices Sahitya Akademi and Indian Council on Cultural Relations, Government of India; (writers: Leslie Epstein, Kit Reed, Lois Gould, David Lehman, Robert G. O'Meally). Supervised(with Jon K. Barlow), Experimental Music Encounter: musicians: Ranganayaki Ayyangar of the "Sampradaya," Madras, Vidyadhar Vyas, Bombay University, Jon Barlow and Alvin Lucier, Wesleyan University; Anuradha Mohan, N. Vija-yalakshmi, K. Arun Prakash, Vishwanath Shirodkar, Sudhir Phadke; planning Oct. 1990; meetings Jan. and Nov. 1992: New Delhi, Madras, Bombay; return visit Sept.-Oct. 1992: Middletown, Providence, Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), New York (Merkin Hall)

    Publications

    • English Biography in the Early Nineteenth Century, 1801-1838, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966
    • Faulkner's Narrative, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973;
    • Light in August chapter anthologized in William Faulk- ner: Modern Critical Views, ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1986, pp. 63-91
    • Three American Originals: John Ford, William Faulkner, and Charles Ives, Middletown: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1984; pb 1987; portion previously printed in Faulkner Annual American Scenarios: the Uses of Film Genre, Middletown, Wes- leyan University Press, 1989; portion previously printed in Planks of Reason ed. B. K. Grant, 1984
    • Literary Revision: the Inexact Science of Getting It Right, New Haven: Yale University Library, 1990
    • Selected Prose and Poetry of the Romantic Period (ed. with G. R. Creeger), New York:Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964
    • Things, New Haven: Yale University Library, 1995
    • Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (ed. with W. S. Lewis), Oxford University Press pb, 1969; reprinted 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990 twice
    • Barbara Bodichon's American Diary, 1857-58 (ed. with two essays), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972
    • Walpole's Family Correspondence (ed. with W. S. Lewis), vol. xxxvi of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Corres- pondence, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973
    • Working with Kazan (ed. with J. Basinger and J. Frazer), Wesleyan Film Program, 1974
    • Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782 ed. with F. A. Pottle), vol. x of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, popular edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977; second edition, Edinburgh University Press, 1994
    • The Business of Motion Pictures (ed., 8-cassette audio album), New York: Jeffrey Norton, 1977
    • The Sesquicentennial Papers (gen. ed.), Middletown: Wesleyan University, 1981
    • Kit Reed's Story First (exercises), New York: Prentice-Hall, 1982
    • "Afterword," in Three Blind Mice, illustrated by Winslow Homer, with a Foreword by Maurice Sendak, NY: Oxford, Opie Series, 1996
    • "'Alive, Alive, O!': the Lewis Walpole Print Collection" in Yale University Library Gazette, Oct. 1989
    • "Bibliography," in Yale Class of 1954, Twenty-Fifth Reunion Book, New Haven, 1979
    • "Boswell and the Major" in Kenyon Review xxviii, no. 109 (Mar. 1966), pp. 161-84; reprinted in reflection, the wesleyan quarterly no. 5 (Winter 1968)
    • "Browning and Macready: the Final Quarrel," in PMLA lxxv, no.5 (Dec. 1960), pp. 597-603
    • "Buster Keaton's The General, an introduction," in Cine Advance, Calcutta 14, 21, 28 Mar. 1974
    • "The Collector (with thanks to John Fowles)" (with Robin Winks, History, Yale) in In the Name of Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Walter Pforzheimer, ed. Hayden B.Peake and Samuel Halpern, foreword by the Hon.Robert M. Gates (Wash. DC: Natl Intelligence Book Center Press,1994)
    • "Diane Arbus" for American National Biography; ÒNoah Webster,Ó Dictionary of the Enlightenment
    • "Don't Trust Anybody over Thirty: the anniversary of the Beinecke," in Yale University Library Gazette, Apr. 1994
    • ÒEarly Morning in the Boswell Vineyard,Ó in Yale University Library Gazette, 1998.
    • "Frederick Albert Pottle," (obit) in Yale University Library Gazette, Oct. 1987; and Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1989
    • "An Index to End All Indexes," in Papers of the Am. Bibliographical Society, 1985
    • "John Ford at Cannes," in Vanity Fair, April 1995
    • "Memoirs of Middlesex County," in Festschrift, Paul Horgan ed. Jon Appleby and T. Corcoran, Aspen: Aspen Institute Occasional Papers, 1973
    • "A New Samuel Richardson Manuscript," in Yale Univ. Library Gazette 42 no. 4 (Apr. 1968)
    • "Noah Webster's Debt to Samuel Johnson," in American Speech xxxviii no.2, May 1962, pp. 95-105
    • "Peter Starbird Boynton," in Peter, ed. A. S. Wensinger, Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1972
    • "A Piece of Boswell Lore," in Yale Univ. Library Gazette vol. 66 nos 3-4 (April 1992)
    • "Painterly Narrative," in Ian Harvey Recent Paintings, New York: Ian Harvey, 1997, pp. 25-29
    • "Paul Horgan," in Wesleyan Alumni Magazine LXXVII no. 4 (Spring1995)
    • "Paul Horgan" [obituary notice] for the London Independent, May 1995
    • ÒThe Pottles at Glen HeadÓ (see also ÒA Piece of Boswell Lore,Ó and ÒEarly Morning in the Boswell Vineyard,Ó three articles drawn from the Isham Archive and Marion PottleÕs 1930 diary.
    • "Private Lives" (autobiographical writings), St Petersburg Times, 1988-1991
    • "Settling Marlowe's Hash: George Garrett's Entered from the Sun," (invited) for a special Garrett issue of Texas Review, 1998.
    • "State and Society in Faulkner's Light in August," in 20th-Cen tury American Novel; a collection of critical articles, ed.Bhalla, New Delhi: Kalyani, 1981 (pp. 82-8)
    • "Subgenres in Horror Pictures: the Pentagram, Faust and Philoctetes,"in Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film, ed. Grant, Toronto: Scarecrow Press, 1984
    • "Tallulah Bankhead," "Zero Mostel," "Jason Robards, Jr.," and "Eli Wallach" in St. James Dictionary of the Theatre
    • "Yearning to Be Free: Artist's Books," Yale University LibraryGazette (Oct.1988)

    Film:

    • Wesleyan 150 (producer), 1981
    • Charles Ives (a documentary project by Daria Sommers), active advisor (with Justin Kaplan, Wiley Hitchcock, and Thomas P. Hughes) funded by National Endowment for the Humanities

    Video: "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Great Gatsby" (with Nancy Milford) for Glotzer/Benjamin Productions, 1988
    Lectures:

    • "'Alive, Alive, O!': the Lewis Walpole Print Collection," Yale Art Gallery (Yale Library Associates), Feb. 1989; published as noted
    • "Buster Keaton's The General, an Introduction," New Delhi, Calcutta, Cleveland and New York City (Wesleyan Alumni); published as noted
    • "Literary Revision," Yale University Art Gallery (Yale Library Associates), Oct. 1990; published as noted
    • "Love and Madness," at the Grolier Club, New York, 1988; at Columbia University, 2002.
    • "Modern Society and Traditional Government: Two Metaphors from Faulkner's Fiction," Ambassador Moynihan's star series, USIS Library, New Delhi, March 1974; published as noted
    • "On Film Text," NEMLA, Middletown CT, 1979.
    • Paul Horgan (1903-1995) for the American Academy of Arts and Letters April 2002 (printed in the Proceedings).
    • "Printing and American Culture," New Haven Printing Club, Jan. 1989
    • "Reconstruction and the Tom Shows: Needs and Beliefs," in "Reconstructing the Black Image" series, Center for Afro-American Studies, Wesleyan, 1984
    • "Sitting Bull at Yale," for Wesleyan Alumni, Los Angeles, May 1996
    • "Stranger in a Familiar Land," in SYMPOSIUM xxi, "The Stranger," at University of San Francisco, Aug. 1987
    • "Things," for the Yale Library Associates, Luce Hall, Yale University, April 1995
    • "Things," in Yale Alumni Magazine, April 1995; published as noted
    • "Things," on Faith Middleton's Open Air New England, CPR, 1995
    • "Tinker, Pottle, Scott, Isham, and Col. Talbot," in Yale University Library Gazette, 1997.
    • "Yearning to Be Free: Artist's Books," Yale University Library, Arts of the Book Collection, 1988; published as noted
    • "Shadow of a Doubt," celebration of Thornton Wilder's centenary, sponsored by the Beinecke Library, Yale University, 1997.
    • Also lectured at Stong College, York University, Toronto, on American Literature; American University Center, Calcut- ta, and Calcutta University, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, on Faulkner; and American Embassy School, New Delhi, on film; Hartford College for Women, Trinity College, Hartford, Notre Dame College, Baltimore, Bombay University

    Fellowships:

    • Rockefeller Fellow, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Aspen Executive Program, July 1976, Aspen CO
    • National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend, July-August 1992, for project on images of Indians and blacks (illustrated in NEH Annual Report, 1992.

    Other: Member, Elizabethan Club; Johnsonians (president 1988-89; continuity committee 1989-92); trustee, Yale Library Associates 1982-2000; chairman 1984-2000; honorary trustee for life 2000- .