Scope and Contents This painting depicts a portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch in Phillips' studio holding a handbound edition of Phillips' "Dante's Inferno." Tom Phillips describes this painting in "The Portrait Works" as follows: "The title of the picture 'The Dante Binding' refers to the book on which the sitter rests her arms. It was the last thing in the picture to be painted since it did not exist until the final three or four sittings. During the months this portrait took to paint, Pella Erskine-Tulloch and I were involved in designing the three volume binding for the Talfourd Press edition of Dante's Inferno. This sample blank volume was the final prototype. It was a triumphant moment in which the silkscreen cloth and spine-titling I had designed came together in her superbly structured binding: the mere presence of the book (replacing substitute books in earlier sittings) was enough to resolve the picture and propel it towards completion. Dante appears elsewhere in the portrait in the...

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Portraits of Ruth and Marvin Sackner, both held by the Archive, are reproduced in the catalogue. "The Dante Binding" (depicted on page 29), a portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch is also held by the Sackner Archive. Edward Lucie Smith signed his portrait on page 37 at a talk of his book "My Jamaica" held at Books & Books in Coral Gables that the Sackners attended. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Central image is a photograph standing near Tom Phillips' Curriculum Vitae painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Central image is a scanned photograph of Marvin Sackner standing near Tom Phillips' Curriculum Vitae painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of the Center for Book Arts exhibition from which the Sackners purchased "Miami Beach: More Than a Million Poems." The original pages of "The Heart of a Humument," held by the Sackner Archive were also on view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of "The Postcard Century" by Tom Phillips in which the Callow writes, "It takes an extraordinary intelligence to fit the history of our century on a postcard." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.