This painting was commissioned by Ruth & Marvin Sackner. It consists of 90 small paintings on masonite assembled as a grid within a single frame. It includes several personal jokes and aphorisms known to the Sackners and Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a stylized version of a mask. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In Phillips' book Works and Text (1992), he indicates that this print (page 134) was based upon two types of weathered matchbox trays from behind the Iron Curtain. This print constitutes one of six prints from walking 1/2 mile around Phillips' studio - it is based on the belief that there are no dull walks, only dull walkers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Title page was designed by Tom Phillips; missing dust jacket designed by Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dust jacket and title page were designed by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jos De Putter contributed an essay on "TV Dante" by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. This is illustrated by four photographic reproductions of Phillips' "Dante Diary" collages. The original collages are held by the Sackner Archive -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Norman Rosenthal has contributed a preface and Tom Phillips an introduction to the book that consists of letter and semi-figurative drawings as well as doodles made by Phillips on pages of the agenda of meetings of the board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art and the British Museum while he was a participant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips writes in his brochure dealing with this series of works that he painted small pictures when he had little time while working on the translating and illustrating of Dante's Inferno. It occurred to him that he could recapture the original impression of a larger space "not by making the works bigger but by making the context in which they were to be viewed smaller." He described the small paintings set into miniature gallery walls as "National Gallery of Lilliput." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalogue. This auction featured British modernist painters. The Sackners bought Phillips' "Humument Fragment no. 50" (item 241) at this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Julius Schmid and Gustav Klimpt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Michelangelo Anselmi and Titian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Piet Mondrian and Johannes Itten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Patrick Symons and Augustus John. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the painting is by Rembrandt van Rijn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Thomas Hudson and Phillip Mercier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Van Gogh and Cezanne, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This series of essays is Phillips' project that is based on music in art through the ages. For this issue, the paintings are by Van Poelenburgh, Fillippino Lippi, and Dioskourides of Samos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.