The Way We
Read
NY Times:
12.05.2108 by Erica Ackerberg
Donald
and Patricia Oresman’s 550-piece art collection was auctioned recently.
Every piece had one thing in common: people were reading in them.
Donald
and Patricia Oresman’s New York City home was designed to display and store
their vast art collection, along with hundreds and hundreds of books. Their art
collection was unique, each work of art depicted the quiet solitude of reading.
Photos and paintings were displayed throughout their home, and hidden in
drawers and nooks.
Much
of the Oresman’s lives were devoted to literature and art. Patricia Oresman was
a social worker who studied Emily Dickinson. Donald Oresman was a lawyer and
businessman who sat on the boards of the Library Company at Philadelphia, the
Larchmont Library, the Morgan Library and the New Criterion.
“I
think there is an intensity to reading that captures artists’ imaginations
because it has a very private element to it,” Mr. Oresman explained at Poets
House in 2004 at an exhibition of his and his wife’s collection. SEE MORE
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