A record of my commissions — each one a pledge by a living artist to finish a work.
Open entries are underway. Closed entries are done.
New commissions are open for the 2026 Christmastide.
Art's Ledger
This is where Art keeps the record.An art commissioning project.
2,524 of 2,530 lines remain.
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Traditional Irish — Paddy and the Whale
Commissioned 2026 • Received 2026
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George Saunders — Lincoln in the Bardo
Commissioned 2015 • Received 2017
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Cormac McCarthy — No Country for Old Men
Commissioned 2004 • Received 2005
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Haruki Murakami — The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Commissioned 1994 • Received 1995
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Martin Margiela — Maison Martin Margiela
Commissioned 1988 • Received 2009
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Italo Calvino — Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore
Commissioned 1979 • Received 1979
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László Polgár — The Understudy
Commissioned 1975 • Received 1976
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Stephen King — The Dark Tower
Commissioned 1970 • Received 2004
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Mark Rothko — Orange, Red, Yellow
Commissioned 1961 • Received 1961
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Vladimir Nabokov — Pale Fire
Commissioned 1960 • Received 1962
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Mark Rothko — Orange, Red, Yellow
Commissioned 1958 • Received 1961
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Michael Bond — A Bear Called Paddington
Commissioned 1957 • Received 1958
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Peggy Fortnum — Paddington, first drawing
Commissioned 1957 • Received 1958
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Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse-Five
Commissioned 1945 • Received 1969
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Franz Kafka — Die Verwandlung
Commissioned 1915 • Received 1915
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James Joyce — Ulysses
Commissioned 1914 • Received 1922
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Franz Kafka — Der Process
Commissioned 1914 • Received 1925
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James Joyce — Ulysses
Commissioned 1914 • Received 1922
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Henry James — The Golden Bowl
Commissioned 1903 • Received 1904
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Yakumo — The Artist of Cats
Commissioned 1898 • Received 1902
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John Stith Pemberton — French Wine Coca
Commissioned 1885 • Received 1886
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Ludwig van Beethoven — Symphony No. 3 ⟨Eroica⟩
Commissioned 1804 • Received 1804
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Francesco Queirolo — Il Disinganno
Commissioned 1752 • Received 1759
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Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons
Commissioned 1718 • Received 1725
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William Congreve — The Double Dealer
Commissioned 1693 • Received 1693
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John Bunyan — The Pilgrim's Progress
Commissioned 1678 • Received 1678
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William Shakespeare — The Tempest
Commissioned 1611 • Received 1611
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François Annibal d’Estrées — Chartreuse
Commissioned 1604 • Received 1605
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William Shakespeare — Hamlet
Commissioned 1600 • Received 1601
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William Shakespeare — The Merchant of Venice
Commissioned 1596 • Received 1598
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Pope Gregory XIII — Inter Gravissimas
Commissioned 1582 • Received 1582
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Michel de Montaigne — Essais
Commissioned 1580 • Received 1582
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相阿弥 — 龍安寺石庭（枯山水）
Commissioned 1471 • Received 1499
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Thomas Malory — Le Morte d'Arthur
Commissioned 1469 • Received 1471
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Sesshu Toyo — Untitled (The Rat)
Commissioned 1430 • Received 1430
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William Langland — Piers Plowman (A-text)
Commissioned 1360 • Received 1360
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Dante Alighieri — Commedia / Inferno
Commissioned 1308 • Received 1314
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Alfonso X el Sabio — Libro de los Juegos
Commissioned 1283 • Received 1283
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Pierre de Montreuil (attrib.) — Sainte-Chapelle
Commissioned 1249 • Received 1249
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Rumi — Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Commissioned 1249 • Received 1249
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Nathaniel Hathorne — The Scarlet Letter
Commissioned Unknown • Received 1849
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Leonardo Chiaiese (after Francesco Solimena) — Il Paradiso Terrestre
Commissioned Unknown • Received 1761