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Sam Messer

Sam Messer, is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.

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Sam Messer (born 1955), is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.1

He has painted numerous paintings of the author Paul Auster's typewriter (The Story of My Typewriter).

Messer's animation titled Denis the Pirate was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.234 In 2019, Messer will show work in Strange Loops at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.

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  1. Yale University School of Art: SamuelMesser
  2. Dunne, Susan (23 October 2017). "Imaginative 'Denis The Pirate' Video, Stills At Wadsworth Atheneum". courant.com. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  3. Corbett, Rachel (16 December 2014). "We've Unearthed a Rare Denis Johnson Story About Pirates". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-05-22.
  4. Johnson, Denis (2003). "Denis the Pirate". Vol. Fall 2003, no. 167. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2019-05-22.