MC Escher’s world, part 3
scher’s fame preceded him across the Atlantic with the publication of articles about him in Time and Life in 1951, with boosted orders for his work.
He had his first one-man exhibition in the United States in Washington, and was in demand as a lecturer, both to arts and science followers, in the US and Canada. Shown here is a computation of an Escher tesselation, and above, “Order and Chaos” from 1950.
British-born HSM Coxeter (1907-2003), pictured here, was a mathematician at the University of Toronto when he met MC Escher in Amsterdam in 1954. They began a correspondence that continued until the latter’s death.
“I’m engrossed again in the study of an illustration which I came across in a publication of [Coxeter],” Maurits wrote. “I am trying to glean from it a method for reducing a plane-filling motif which goes from the centre of a circle out to the edge, where the motifs will be infinitely close together. His hocus-pocus text is no use to me at all, but the picture can probably help me …” See the rest.
