REMEMBERING TOMIE on February 19, 2021

Bottom Photo: Nancy Muller Dutton, Barbie Stearns, Marilyn Kidder, Peggie Somers, and In Front, Polly Carroll.

November 7, 1987, there was an opening for a retrospective exhibition of Tomie’s art at the Nashua Arts & Science Center in Nashua, NH. Opening Night was Black Tie (with cummerbunds!).

Nancy not only organized the exhibition, but she also FRAMED most of the pieces.

Barbie and Marilyn were friends from New London. Peggie was a friend of Tomie’s from the 1960s/1970s. Polly was a dePaola family friend and close to Tomie’s mother, Flossie. Polly and Flossie were “partners in crime.” (Bob)

Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality

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REMEMBERING TOMIE on February 18, 2021

Steven Kroll and Tomie on a speakers’ panel at the Free Library of Philadelphia, May 7, 1977.

Tomie illustrated three of Steven’s stories: THE TYRANNOSAURUS GAME in 1976, SANTA’S CRASH-BANG CHRISTMAS in 1977, and FAT MAGIC in 1978.

Tomie said that Steven had trouble writing satisfying endings to his stories, so Tomie and his editor, Margery Cuyler, needed to work on how his stories concluded. (Bob)

Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality

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REMEMBERING TOMIE on February 17, 2021

An Ash Wednesday art-mail from 2014.

Tomie would often tell the story that his family would go to church on the morning of Ash Wednesday to get ashy crosses drawn on their foreheads.

The family would return home and the children would go to school. But, before leaving for elementary school, Tomie would find one of his father’s ashtrays so that Tomie could touch up his cross. He wanted his classmates to notice his cross.

Tomie loved the theatrical aspect of church. (Bob)

Pray for Peace, Justice, and Equality

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