The following is a partial list of collections of An Artist’s Portrait of HO CHI MINH.
GIFTS
TIDE Foundation, Boston, MA - AP 10/10
Ho Chi Minh Museum, Ha Noi, Viet Nam - 14/100
Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hue City, Viet Nam - 7/100
David Wolfe, Wolfe Editions, Portland, ME - 36/100
President Tran Duc Luong, Ha Noi, Viet Nam - 1/100
President William J. Clinton, Washington, DC - 3/100
Charles Fenn, Schull, Ireland - 4/100 and 6/100
General Vo Nguyen Giap, Ha Noi, Viet Nam - 9/100
Mr. Pham Gia Khiem, Deputy Prime Minister, Ha Noi,
Vietnam - 18/100
Mrs. Vu Giang Huong, Secretary General Vietnam Fine Arts Association, Ha Noi, Viet Nam - 21/100
Madame Binh, Hanoi, Vietnam - 51/100
Nguyen Sinh Hung, President of the National - 67/100
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Larry Evans Fine Art, Moraga, CA - 13/100
Ed Russell, Graystone Contemporary Art,
San Francisco, CA - 22/100
Thomas Thomsen, Woodward Thomsen Co., Portland, ME - 39/100
Tim Hamill, Hamill Gallery of African Art, Boston, MA - 47/100
Zen Collection, Singapore - 66/100 and 78/100
Scotty and Dee Ann McIntyre, Santa Fe, NM - 73/100
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LIBRARIES
Harvard University, Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, MA - 2/100
University of California at Irvine, Main Library, Irvine, CA - 23/100 UCLA, Young Research Library, Special Collections,
Los Angeles, CA - 26/100
U. of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections,
Salt Lake City, UT - 27/100
Temple University, Samuel L. Paley Library,
Philadelphia, PA - 28/100
New York Public Library, New York, NY - 29/100
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA - 30/100
Wellesley College, Margaret Clapp Library,
Wellesley, MA - 31/100
University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Special Collections,
Tulsa, OK - 35/100
Emmanuel College, Cardinal Cushing Library,
Boston, MA - 40/100
Cornell University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY - 5/100
Library of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria - 46/100
Maine College of Art Joanne Waxman Library,
Portland, ME - 48/100
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1998 photograph of David Thomas presenting General Vo Nguyen Giap (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) and his wife Nguyen Bich Ha with a copy of his artist’s book on President Ho Chi Mnh.
AN ARTIST’S PORTRAIT OF HO CHI MINH
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As far as we know, Ho never kept a prose diary. The purpose of this work of imaginative reconstruction (i.e. Diary) is to evoke a sense of his personal engagement with the events of his time. The author, Charles Fenn, knew and worked with Ho Chi Minh for a brief period during WW II and trained him and his delegates in the use of American arms being supplied to the Vietnamese. This “diary” is based on historical documents but should not be taken literally. Although fictional, the “diary” is based on factual information found at the bottom of each page. Also included are passages from Prison Diary, a collection of poems written by Ho Chi Minh while he was in prison in China in 1942-43, as well as two stories told by Mr. Vu Ky and Mr. Dinh Duong Dinh, two of Ho’s closest associates, and poems by several of Vietnam’s leading poets.
This artist’s book contains 116 pages (58 text pages and 58 image pages) and is printed in a limited edition of one hundred with ten artist’s proofs. Each book is numbered and signed by Charles Fenn and me. The books are printed on Vietnamese do (mulberry) paper hand-made in Dong O Village in northern Vietnam. The text pages have been varnished to make them more translucent. The images are printed from a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 970Cse. The text is printed by letterpress in Monotype Bembo by Wolfe Editions in Portland, Maine. Each book is presented in a handmade lacquer box made by craftsmakers in the Hanoi area. The lacquer box is contained in a handmade silk slip cover also custom made in Vietnam.
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LIBRARIES (continued)
Massachusetts College of Art Library, Boston, MA - 49/100
The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN - 76/100
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA - 77/100
Columbia University, New York, NY - 79/100
Dartmouth University, Hannover, NH - 80/100
Swarthmore College Library, Special Collections,
Swarthmore, PA - 81/100
University of Connecticut, University Libraries Special Collections, Storrs, CT - 82/100
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections,
Minneapolis, MN - 83/100,
University of Chicago Libraries, Special Collections,
Chicago, IL - 84/100
Ohio State University Libraries, Special Collections,
Columbus, OH - 85/100
Fashion Institute of Design, New York, NY - 88/100
LaSalle University, Connelly Library Special Collections, Philadelphia, PA - 89/100
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
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