The Edward Ruscha Papers and Art Collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes preliminary layout sheets for Hard Light, a collaborative artist’s book published by Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner in 1978.
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Member Profile: Susan Scafati
We are pleased to share our interview with Ransom Center member Susan Scafati, an Austin-based, American contemporary artist. She is a member of Lakes Were Rivers, an artist collective showcased in the Ransom Center’s 2013 exhibition Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive.
Fellows Find: Painter and muse Tennessee Williams
![Tennesse Williams (American, 1911-1983) Untitled [portrait of Frank Merlot], not dated Oil on paper board 11 15/16 x 8 1/4 inches Signed T.W.](https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/files/2016/05/Tennessee-Williams_Frank-Merlo-768x977.jpg)
Tennessee Williams’s dramatic opus as well as his abundant correspondence have been minutely and well systematized, interpreted, and to a large extent published, during the decades before and after his death.