Walter Whitman Jr., the gusty, grey poet of Brooklyn, N.Y., poured his "barbaric yawp" over the world in bushels of verse which he called Leaves of Grass. Last week Manhattan's Associated American Artists' Galleries put on view ten paintings, 20 drawings commissioned by the Book-of-the-Month Club for a $5 edition of Leaves of Grass. The illustrations were made by Lewis C. Daniel, 38, a tall, rangy, black-haired artist and teacher at Cooper Union who looks something like the men Walt Whitman apostrophized.
Artist Daniel warmed up on Walt by making 14 etchings for Song of the Open Road, lettering the text on...
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