Yes, thank you Diane, I had forgotten about that cover which is also beautiful!

Dominic

> On Apr 30, 2021, at 7:34 AM, Diane Kitchen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> R.I.P.  Robert Haller and Bill Wiley.  They both will be missed.
> 
> Wiley did another cover for Canyon Cinema, an earlier one for Catalog #4, 
> back around 1976.  Dorothy Wiley was on the Canyon Board at the time and 
> suggested perhaps he would do it. As with all things Wiley, it looked great.
> 
> Diane
> 
> 
>> On Apr 29, 2021, at 4:10 PM, Dominic Angerame <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yikes two important people at once! Thanks for the announcement Eric.
>> 
>> So sorry about Robert Haller, he was such a good person. Humble yet lived 
>> the history of Experimental Cinema from the 60’s maybe earlier to modern 
>> times. He documented so many events in the NYC Film scene and of Jonas 
>> Mekas. A great historian, understated, and quite overlooked in many ways. 
>> Many of his accomplishments have gone by unrecognized by many. I always 
>> enjoy talking with him on the phone when I was at Canyon and when I went to 
>> visit Anthology in NYC. He seemed to always be there hidden in the paper 
>> archives and constantly working. He helped in many ways and I will remember 
>> his kindness.
>> 
>> William T. Wiley. William did several covers for the Canyon Cinema Catalog. 
>> The first one was the one Michael Wallin and myself compiled after a long 
>> absence of published catalogs. I approached William and he did not hesitate 
>> to donate the cover artwork work called “I can’t yawn cinema”. He also 
>> donated the supplements for Catalog 5, several of them until Joel Singer did 
>> Catalog 6. William was such a personable person always approachable and 
>> never had the “I am famous” attitude that many famous artists had. I had 
>> limited contact with him, I sure the art community will be sad to hear of 
>> his passing. His film “Man’s Nature” is still at Canyon, I believe and is 
>> worth the screening.
>> 
>> Dominic
>> 
>>> On Apr 29, 2021, at 1:08 PM, Eric Theise <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just got the news that Anthology's Robert Haller passed away yesterday. A 
>>> tribute's been posted on their site.
>>> 
>>>     http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/haller 
>>> <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fanthologyfilmarchives.org%2Fabout%2Fhaller&data=04%7C01%7Cdkitchen%40uwm.edu%7Cf025bdc35d184e1d239208d90b534bfb%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C0%7C0%7C637553274654656783%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=aeakpEGhxk%2Be55stR%2BIGh6E11gEQsH%2BT%2BJ9HetJWFmU%3D&reserved=0>
>>> 
>>> And since I haven't seen mention here, William T. Wiley, 
>>> painter/printmaker/sculptor/pinball machine designer but probably best 
>>> known on Frameworks as a collaborator on many Robert Nelson's films, passed 
>>> away last week. Wiley was the subject of a retrospective that led off at 
>>> the Smithsonian in 2009 and this related page holds examples of a lot of 
>>> his work.
>>> 
>>>     https://americanart.si.edu/artist/william-t-wiley-5394 
>>> <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanart.si.edu%2Fartist%2Fwilliam-t-wiley-5394&data=04%7C01%7Cdkitchen%40uwm.edu%7Cf025bdc35d184e1d239208d90b534bfb%7C0bca7ac3fcb64efd89eb6de97603cf21%7C0%7C0%7C637553274654666737%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=87jWvpCYYyIjPAxFg6Dla9br1nUiWmkcajO93baYgL0%3D&reserved=0>
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
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