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Elliot's Books seeks an individual or institution, such as a library or museum, to purchase Wallace Stevens' Art Collection, consisting of twenty-eight paintings, etchings, and lithographs, including the Tal Coat still life that Stevens entitled "Angels Surrounded by Paysans." [...]included are Stevens' furnishings: his bed, armoire, writing desk and chair, secretary, two easy chairs, humidor, walking cane, pocket watch, bathroom scale, lamps, many with oriental motifs, dozens of photographs (including the one with Robert Frost at Key West), his confirmation and marriage certificates, his medal from the Poetry Society of America, and rare genealogical material. James Finnegan, current president of the HFEWS; John Orofino, architect who designed the markers; Christine Palm, immediate past president of HFEWS; and Michael Gannon, community relations officer for The Hartford Financial Services Group.