Tag: Portrait
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Letter from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Randy Holland re Simmie Knox August 29, 2007
Supreme Court of the United StatesWashington, D. C. 20543August 29, 2007 CHAMBERS OFJUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG The Honorable Randy J. HollandJustice of the Supreme Court of Delaware Dear Randy: Thanks for the photographic copy of a very fine portrait, and the article telling of Simmie Knox’s earlier painting of you. His talent should have been […]
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Letter from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Randy Holland re Simmie Knox June 2, 2005
Supreme Court of the United StatesWashington, D.C. 20543 CHAMBERS OFJUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG June 2, 2005 The Honorable Randy J. HollandJustice of the Supreme Court of Delaware Dear Randy: You have chosen your portrait artist well.Simmie has most recently done the portrait of my D.C. Circuit colleague, Harry T. Edwards, unveiling set for November 4. […]
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Simmie Knox and Randy Holland: A relationship woven at a woolen mill in Milford, Delaware
In 1959, my dad was 12 year old. My grandfather was the cafeteria manager at a woolen mill in Milford, DE. A young man named Simmie Knox worked there and offered to paint portraits as a way to earn money and practice his art. My grandfather took him up on it, and for my entire […]