Francis Bacon: A Retrospective
Essays by Dennis Farr, Sally Yard, and Michael Peppiatt, a life long friend of Francis Bacon
Paperback, 1st edition, published in 1999 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 236 pages, full color
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. In his hands figurative art once again became a viable means of expression. Through 70 reproductions of Bacon’s oil paintings, including several large triptychs, the disturbing and provocative imagery Bacon developed during his long career is explored. All of his major themes are represented: the Crucifixion themes; the screaming popes inspired by Velasquez’s Portrait of Innocent X; the studies of the human body which grew from Bacon’s fascination with Muybridge’s action photographs and the cinema; the Van Gogh series; portraits; animals; and landscapes.
Carl Milles: Sculpture and Drawings from Millesgarden, Stockholm
Essay by Joan Marter and Notes on the Drawings by Goran Soderlund
Paperback, published in 1988, 15 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations
In the visual arts, Swedish artist Carl Milles holds a unique significance and value equally for Swedish and American cultural development. Milles’ major public works created during his tenure in America include Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Virginia; Sunglitter at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and Man and Nature at Rockefeller Center, New York City. Highlighted in this pamphlet are 11 sculptures and two drawings along with a synopsis of his career in America.
Images of Reality, Images of Arcadia
Edited by Margarita Russell with contributions by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Claude Lapaire, and Peter Wegmann
Paperback, published in 1989, 131 pages, full color
Apart from their important contribution to scholarship, the beauty and variety of the paintings represented in Images of Reality, Images of Arcadia will appeal to all art lovers. Those who particularly appreciate Dutch and Flemish 17th century Netherlandish painting at its best will take pleasure in these 50 masterpieces, which are unknown outside Switzerland. This catalogue includes important works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter Claesz, Emanuel de Witte, Adriaen van Ostade, Jan van Goyen, Pieter de Hooch, Meindert Hobbema, and Rachel Ruysch from the Briner Foundation and the Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, and the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva.
Icon: Four Essays
Essays by Gary Vikan, Robin Cormack, William Tronzo, Thalia Gouma-Peterson
Paperback, published 1988 by The Walters Art Gallery, 64 pages, color and black and white
Between heaven and earth, icons are the mediators to the Divine. What defined an icon in Byzantium was neither medium nor style, but rather how the image was used, and especially, what people believed it to be. In addition to exploring their aesthetic value, these four essays examine in depth, the practice, form, history, and theology of icons, their integral role within the “Church of Cosmos,” and their impact on the art of the West.
Nostalgic Journey: American Illustration from the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum
Edited by Rowland P. Elzea
Paperback, published 1994, 21 pages, color and black and white
The Delaware Art Museum is renowned for its outstanding collection of original paintings and drawings for many of the best known and beloved books and periodicals in the history of American literature. For this reason, this small, yet comprehensive catalogue designed to complement the Nostalgic Journey exhibition continues to be an excellent investment. The color reproductions of works such as Frank Earle Schoonover’s cover illustration for Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge and the short essays, present a view and a description of American illustration.
Red Grooms: A Catalogue Raisonne of his Graphic Work 1957 - 1985
Foreward by Kevin Grogan, Essay by Paul Richard, Catalogue Raisonne
Compilation by Brooke Alexander with the assistance of Virginia Cowles
Paperback, published 1986, 32 pages, full color and black and white
Red Grooms is known for his humorous and energetic portrayals of urban life. His talent has no boundaries. He is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, carpenter, puppeteer and showman, dancer, actor, satirist, portraitist and film maker, both radical and traditionalist. Red Grooms, with an appreciation written by Paul Richard, is a survey of his graphic works from 1957 through 1985.
The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770 - 1870
Edited by Lillian B. Miller, Essays by Sidney Hart, David Steinberg, Brandon Brame Fortune, William Oedel, Paul D. Schweizer, Kenneth Haltman, Linda Crocker Simmons, Anne Sue Hirshorn, David C. Ward
Paperback, published 1996 by Abbeville Press, 319 pages, full color
The story of the Peale family as artists is one of the most captivating chapters in American cultural history. The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 1770 - 1870 explores the significant contributions to the nation’s cultural, educational and scientific life by the first two generations of the Peale family of artists and naturalists whose productivity spanned a full century. Reproductions in the catalogue include some of the major icons of American art history: the patriarch Charles Willson Peale’s The Staircase Group and The Exhumation of the Mastodon; and Rubens Peale with a Geranium by his son Rembrandt Peale. Still lifes by Rubens and Raphaelle Peale are featured, as well as portrait miniatures by Sarah Miriam and Anna Claypoole Peale.
Ferdinand Hodler: Views & Visions
Edited by Juerg Albrecht and Peter Fischer
Paperback, published 1994, 175 pages, full color
The 60 landscapes and figurative works in this exhibition represent Hodler’s works from 1874 to 1918. They show Hodler’s affinity to his contemporaries Van Gogh and Munch, and demonstrate the continuation of a northern European romantic sensibility into the 20th century. These works have been brought together from 26 Swiss public and private collections.
Viollet-le-Duc: Architect, Artist, Master of Historic Preservation
Edited by Francoise Berce and Bruno Foucart with contributions by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Francoise Boudon, Rene Descourtis, Annie Lotte, Henri Loyrette David Van Zanten, Genevieve Viollet-le-Duc
Paperback, published 1988, 100 pages, color and black and white
If we consider the uses of history, the practice of historic preservation, knowledge of the medieval world, and the study and enjoyment of Gothic architecture to be of interest or value, there is no one more significant for us here and now than Viollet-le-Duc. His drawings rank among the most beautiful architectural renderings of all time.
Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians, Treasures from the Republic of Bulgaria
Edited by Ivan Marazov, with essays by Alexander Fol, Margarita Tacheva, Ivan Venedikov, Ivan Marazov, and photographs by Ivo Hadjimishev
Paperback, published 1998 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 256 pages, full color
Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians, Treasures from the Republic of Bulgaria will introduce Americans to one of the greatest, most enduring, yet least understood of ancient western cultures. Over 200 masterpieces of gold and silver metalwork, covering a period of 38 centuries, are displayed in this resplendent catalogue. In our century, over 500 burial mounds have been excavated in Bulgaria. The stunning objects unearthed during these excavations, some of which are older than the Egyptian pyramids, have shed new light on a little-known culture that served as the link between the Greek and Roman west and the Oriental east.
Islamic Art & Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait
Edited by Esin Atil with essays by Marilyn Jenkins, Oleg Grabar, Estelle Whelan, Ghada H. Qaddumi with Manuel Keene, Sheila S. Blair, Walter B. Denny
Paperback, published 1990 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 313 pages, full color
Islamic Art & Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait includes more than 100 objects of wood, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, ivory, gold, brass, leather, and carpets - witnesses from early Islamic civilization to the Ottoman empire. Though each article in this publication is easily appreciated as a work of art, most were intended to perform a utilitarian function. Among the highlights are a series of Korans from the 8th to 18th centuries that display the development of Islamic calligraphy, a superbly engraved 10th century brass astrolabe used as a navigational tool, an example of stamped and gilded leather bookbinding from the mid-16th century, and a small falcon paved with cabochon rubies and adorned with pendant emeralds and baroque pearls.
James McNeil Whistler: Lithographs from the Collection of Steven Block
Essays by Nesta R. Spink
Paperback, published 2000 by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 95 pages, black and white
James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) created hundreds of poignant portraits and landscapes, much lauded for their realism and delicacy. Having already established a successful artistic career as a painter and etcher, late in life Whistler began to test other media and approached the art of lithography with the enthusiasm he exhibited in all his other creative endeavors. This exhibition in print of Whistler’s lithographs is drawn from the largest extant privately owned collection, which has recently been enhanced with some very special acquisitions. The essays explore a more introspective side of this flamboyant and unpredictable artist, who became a seer and aesthetic guide to fellow artists in the United States and abroad.
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Paperback, published 1998 by The Tokyo Shimbun, text in Japanese, 154 pages, full color
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Edited by Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and essays by Yoshiyuki Furutani, Junko Watanabe, Kazuko Yamaguchi, Hirotoshi Furuta, Hidenori Kurita Paperback, published 1998 by The Tokyo Shimbun, text in Japanese, 154 pages, full color A group of 62 outstanding highlights from the Albright-Knox collections are brought together in this catalogue, including such works as Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ and Matisse’s Les Musiciennes, and paintings by Picasso, Chagall, Renoir, Cezanne and Van Gogh in an easily understood, systematic introduction to modern art.