Handwritten letters are performances on paper. Elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across a page; bold strokes of calligraphy shout for attention. These lively impressions take shape in endless ...
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...
Lenore Tawney, postcard to Maryette Charlton (1970) (All images courtesy of Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, from Pen to Paper: Artists’ Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of ...