Within an outline suggestive of two lungs, Phillips has painted indecipherable hieroglyphics on stretched vellum. The painting of the symbols within the outline was done by first applying a solid coat of paint and then carving out the letters with a surgical scapel. This leaves the unpainted vellum surface in this region roughened to the touch bit at the painting's borders smooth. The 150 year old frame that holds the irregularly shaped vellum was used by a company to dry and stretch vellum, a type of heavy parchment prepared from lambskin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bill Hurrell is the alter-ego of Tom Phillips. The name is based upon William H[urrell] Mallock, the author of "A Human Document," upon which Phillips' "A Humument" is based. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print is a realistic portrait of the writer, Salman Rushdie, under a death sentence by the Ayatollah Kumani for writing the book, Satanic Verses. The initials AK (Ayatollah Kumani) are branded on Rushdie's forehead. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print depicts a portrait of Rushdie with a Sandsrit caption. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lambirth provides a detailed review of the work, current exhibitions, philosophy of Tom Phillips who is described as a "painter, poet, printmaker, collector, composer, curator, sculpture, singer, translator... "At 60, the polymathic Mr Phillips is still just trying to do what he's always done: be an artist as best he can." The essay mentions that "Phillips claims to have only two collectors in the world, one in Miami and one in London. They are his only significant patrons." [The collectors who are not identified in this article are the Sackners in Miami and Massimo Valsecchi in London]. The article reproduces page 50 of A Humument, a self-portrait of Phillips on his 50th birthday, a drawing that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The record jacket and poster designs consisted of portraits of The Who, a British musical rock group. Phillips did a portrait of the leader, Pete Townshend and other artists did portraits of Townshend and other menbers of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The record jacket and poster designs consisted of portraits of The Who, a British musical rock group. Phillips did a portrait of the leader, Pete Townshend and other artists did portraits of Townshend and other menbers of the group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Auction catalogue. Two works in this auction by Tom Phillips, "The Calligrapher Replies" and "Conjectured Picture 11" were acquired by Sackner Archive. Correct titles of these paintings as listed in the Sackner Archive are "Letter Picture, Diamond" and "Mappin Art Gallery Conjectured Picture (ref, no.11)," respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The reproductions of antique cat portraits are from the post card collection of Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing consists of the layout for the text of Phillips' painting for the "Sackner Artchive." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing documents Phillips' process that resulted in the fromation of the signature painting commissioned for the Sackner Archive.It ultimately was designed with 90 small paintings. The sketches of the layout led to Phillips' creation of the word Artchive that becomes a mesostic with the lettters placed vertically down the center of the painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is issue no.21 of New Moment, a magazine for art & advertisement. This special issue was published as the catalogue for an exhibition of Phillips' prints in Slovenia. Marvin Sackner's essay "Humumentism: the Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips" was included. Other essays trace the areas of Phillips prodigious creations in book art, video, music, photography, translations and portraiture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. This drawing incorporates Humument text in its imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The quilt made by Tom Phillips and Alice Wood is contained in the Sackner Archive. It is based on the poem by William Butler Yeats "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The title of the quilt comes form the closing line "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Article on Phillips' globes entitled "Heaven and Earth" mentions globe in Sackner Archive. Phillips also reviews Wendy Beckett's book, "Contemporary Women Artists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue is mainly devoted to Andrea Mantegna and his exhibition at the Royal Academy. Tom Phillips contributed an essay titled "The Glory That Was Rome." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.