(1 OF 4): “WHO ARE THE DEWEESES?”=>
….In The Very Beginning Of ZMM’s Chapter 12, At Cooke City, MT =>
….Getting Close To Yellowstone National Park, John & Sylvia Sutherland Have Just Questioned
….~“Who Are The DeWeeses?” AND The Narrator Replies =>

.. It’s about the people we’ll be staying with tomorrow, the DeWeeses. .. I’m not sure what the question was but add, "He’s a painter. He teaches fine arts at the college there [Bozeman MT], an abstract impressionist." .
... They ask how I came to know him and I have to answer that I don’t remember which is a little evasive. I don’t remember anything about him except fragments. He and his wife were evidently friends of Phædrus’ friends, and he came to know them that way. .. They wonder what an engineering writer like myself would have in common with an abstract painter and I have to say again that I don’t know. I mentally file through the fragments for an answer but none comes.
.... Their personalities were certainly different. Whereas photographs of Phædrus’ face during this period show alienation and aggression—a member of his department had half jokingly called it a "subversive" look—some photographs of DeWeese from the same period show a face that is quite passive, almost serene, except for a mild questioning expression.”
..****************..

April 27, 2021” Tina DeWeese says => “I know this is Pirsig’s commentary and you won’t want to change that as he wrote it. But for future reference, Bob DeWeese was an abstract expressionist. (not impressionist).
..****************..

A VERY GOOD ARTICLE SUMMARIZING THEIR LIVES =>
….Montana’s Legendary Art Pioneers: Bob And Gennie DeWeese. By Gail Schontzler, Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer Dec 25, 2011
…. Thanks to Bozeman Chronicle, for Photo & Article: Click Here.
..****************..

DATE-LINE: May 4, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
….April 27, 2021: Tina DeWeese says => “Here’s the Hotlink to our Website, which shows [same /\ Above /\ Photo view of Bob and Gennie, but shows considerably] more of their Art Studio.”
AFTER THE ABOVE BLUE LINK COMES UP => YOU SHOULD TAKE TIME TO STUDY DETAILS IN THE LARGER BETTER VERSION OF THE /\ ABOVE /\ SMALLER PHOTO =>
…. Which Shows Bob & Gennie In Their Art Studio Work Room, At The Lowest Level Of Their Cottonwood Canyon Home.
….We See In This Work Room, The State Of Creative Chaos, Just As It Was Back In ~1980.
=> The Blue Link ABOVE has a somewhat larger photographic scene: Right Click On This Link, Select New Tab and AFTER photo comes up, Please Notice =>
..A) The corner of the room, seen left of center, is toward ~East. This is because the home is oriented parallel to Cottonwood Canyon & Road, which trend Southeast,
..B) Looking out the window at left, you can see the horse pasture is covered with snow. It’s Winter Time with Bob & Gennie having extra clothing.
..C) And upper left in the window view, you see the Pine Tree Covered slope. This is the Northeast Mountain Edge Of Cottonwood Canyon. To the right of this slope is, Upstream, Cottonwood Canyon, trending Southeast.
..D) With magnifying glass, at the bottom of photo, you can read the well-organized hand writing on Strip Of White Paper. You can make out that some of the “data” is practically in columns. We will have to ask the DeWeese siblings whether this writing was Gennie’s or Bob’s?

…. Concerning the /\ Above /\ Photo => Tina DeWeese Sends ADDED INFORMATION About Her Mom & Dad’s “Art Studio Work Room”
….[Tina continues her => ] “Thinking … might want to add a comment about the congestion of varied and various art objects in the studio. There was period when my dad had a hand scrawled sign above his studio door => ACCUMULATED ACCUMULATIONS.”
….”He wrote a poem about The Studio, you can see here, together with poems written by their granddaughter, Mira Shimabukuro, about each of them: These are wonderful character studies of these enigmatic folks, her grandparents. ”
….”The image on this page [Blue Link Above] is from a painting he made of an earlier studio on Main Street Bozeman, before they moved to Cottonwood in 1965. It was once upon a time the old Moose Lodge, the entire floor of the building and situated above the VFW. This was the studio where the famous “studio parties” happened, the congregation of artists and intellectual “radicals” from MSU, one among whom was Bob Pirsig on occasion. This was also the studio in which they, among MSU friends, directed and performed a tremendous production of Kurt Weil’s Three Penny Opera. (Remind me to share pics with you another time.)”
..****************..

…. For More About Bozeman “Parties” => Right Click Here, and Open In A New Tab. And AFTER Page Comes Up => Scroll down to => “Yearly 4 of July Art Community Get-Togethers.”

..*************************
(Photo = From DeWeese Photo Album..... ZMM Page = 137 ...... WayPt = 198`|m|' 5720ft)