Additional artworks by Whiting Tennis are installed at the Mark O. Hatfield Library on the main campus at Willamette University. Accompanying these artworks is a bookshelf filled with over 90 suggested reading books. The shelf includes books on artists, art movements, architecture, and novels that relate in various ways to Tennis’s art, themes, and subject matter that he explores.
A Selection From the Suggested Reading List
Novels
My Side of the Mountain
Written and illustrated by Jean Craighead George
Franny and Zooey
By J. D. Salinger
Lean on Pete: A Novel
By Willy Vlautin
Angle of Repose
By Wallace Stegner
Art Books
Picasso Black and White
By Carmen Gimenez, Dore Ashton, Richard Shiff and Oliver Berggruen
Phillip Gustin
By Robert Store
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
By Cynthia Burlingham, Robert Gober, D. Hickey and T. Johnson
Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology
By Claes Oldenburg
Walker Evans: Signs
By Andrei Codrescu
Housekeeping: A Novel
By Marilynne Robinson