{{Short description|American painter}} '''Sam Messer''' (born 1955), is a painter living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, film writer and director Eleanor Gaver, and daughter. He is Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Art.<ref>[http://art.yale.edu/SamuelMesser Yale University School of Art: SamuelMesser<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
He has painted numerous paintings of the author Paul Auster's typewriter (''The Story of My Typewriter'').
Messer's animation titled ''Denis the Pirate'' was featured in a Matrix Gallery exhibit in the Fall of 2017 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/ctnow/arts-theater/hc-sam-messer-denis-pirate-matrix-wadsworth-atheneum-20171025-story.html|title=Imaginative 'Denis The Pirate' Video, Stills At Wadsworth Atheneum|last=Dunne|first=Susan|website=courant.com|date=23 October 2017 |access-date=2019-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/rare-denis-johnson-story-about-pirates.html|title=We've Unearthed a Rare Denis Johnson Story About Pirates|last=Corbett|first=Rachel|date=16 December 2014|website=www.vulture.com|access-date=2019-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/158/denis-the-pirate-denis-johnson|title=Denis the Pirate|last=Johnson|first=Denis|date=2003|access-date=2019-05-22|issue=167|volume=Fall 2003|language=en|issn=0031-2037}}</ref> In 2019, Messer will show work in ''[https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/strange-loops/ Strange Loops]'' at Artspace, curated by Federico Solmi and Johannes DeYoung.
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