Central European Drawings, 1680-1800

Central European Drawings, 1680-1800

Author: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780691040820

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Central Europe occupies a prominent place in many realms of eighteenth-century culture. This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, organized in 1989 by The Art Museum, Princeton University, which presents some of the little-known accomplishments of artists from the region of present-day East and West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Providing the first available survey of drawings of the period in English, the illustrated introduction to the catalogue considers the works in historical and artistic context. The book includes important drawings by artists such as Cosmas Damian Asam, Egid Quirin Asam, Matthus Gnther, and Adrian Zingg. Published for the first time are unique drawings by such important sculptors as Georg Raphael Donner and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The fully illustrated catalogue contains 105 entries, many of which deal with major issues of art of the time and treat the drawings exhibited in relation to works elsewhere. Biographies are presented for all the artists exhibited.


Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group

Author: Michael Duncan

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781942884873

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Abstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual illumination. The nine original members of the Transcendental Painting Group were Emil Bisttram, Robert Gribbroek, Lawren Harris, Raymond Jonson, William Lumpkins, Florence Miller Pierce, Agnes Pelton, Horace Towner Pierce and Stuart Walker. They were later joined by Ed Garman. Despite the quality of their works, these Southwest artists have been neglected in most surveys of American art, their paintings rarely exhibited outside of New Mexico. Faced with the double disadvantage of being an openly spiritual movement from the wrong side of the Mississippi, the TPG has remained a secret mostly known only to cognoscenti. Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group aims to address this slight, claiming the group's artists as crucial contributors to an alternative through-line in 20th-century abstraction, one with renewed relevance today. This volume provides a broad perspective on the group's work, positioning it within the history of modern painting and 20th-century American art. Essays examine the TPG in light of their international artistic peers; their involvement with esoteric thought and Theosophy; the group's sources in the culture and landscape of the American Southwest; and the experience of its two female members.


Wayne Thiebaud 100

Wayne Thiebaud 100

Author: Scott Shields

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781087501178

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"This book celebrates the 100th birthday of Wayne Thiebaud. Best known for his tantalizing paintings of cakes and pies, Thiebaud has long been affiliated with pop art, though his body of work is far more expansive. This book includes pieces drawn from both the holdings at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and from the collection of the Thiebaud family, many of which have never been published or shown publicly"--


The Splendor of Germany

The Splendor of Germany

Author: William Breazeale

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911300779

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"The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, [the book] examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century"--Back cover.


Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Author: Scott A. Shields

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764979415

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Audiences today generally know Richard Diebenkorn's career in terms of three major evolutions: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and "early Berkeley" periods of Abstract Expressionism (1947-1955); the Berkeley figurative/representational period (1955-1966); and the Ocean Park (1967-1988) and Healdsburg (1988-1992) series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn's earliest paintings and drawings remain little known. This catalogue focuses on Diebenkorn's evolution to maturity. It features nearly two hundred paintings and drawings, many from the archives of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, that precede his shift to figuration. These early pieces evolved rapidly from representational landscape scenes and portraits of military colleagues, to semiabstract and Surrealist-inspired depictions of topography and the human form, to the artist's mature Abstract Expressionist paintings. Many of these pieces will be unfamiliar to the public, yet they offer a fuller picture of Diebenkorn's precocious achievements and set the stage for what was yet to come.


Edwin Deakin

Edwin Deakin

Author: Scott A. Shields

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque surveys the life and career of Edwin Deakin (18381923), an English-born painter who resided in San Francisco and Berkeley, California, while producing highly regarded examples of early California art. This is the first book to chronicle work from Deakin's entire range of genres, from still-lifes to nature paintings to his series of California mission paintings. Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., the book's author, is the chief curator of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA. The introduction is by Alfred C. Harrison Jr., president of the North Point Gallery in San Francisco. Developed by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, in concert with an exhibition of the artist's paintings, opening January 2008. By Scott A. Shields, Ph.D.; introduction by Alfred C. Harrison Jr. 120 page smyth-sewn casebound book, with jacket. Size: 10 by 8 3/4 inches. Includes over 80 full-color reproductions, biographical chronology, list of artwo


Stealing the Show

Stealing the Show

Author: John Barelli

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1493038249

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When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum’s staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world. For the first time, John Barelli shares his experiences of the crimes that occurred on his watch; the investigations that captured thieves and recovered artwork; the lessons he learned and shared with law enforcement professionals in the United States and abroad; the accidents and near misses; and a few mysteries that were sadly never solved. He takes readers behind the scenes at the Met, introduces curators and administrators, walks the empty corridors after hours, and shares what it’s like to get the call that an ancient masterpiece has gone missing. The Metropolitan Museum covers twelve acres in the heart of Manhattan and is filled with five thousand years of work by history’s great artists known and unknown: Goya, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Warhol, Pollack, Egyptian mummies, Babylonian treasures, Colonial crafts, and Greek vases. John and a small staff of security professionals housed within the Museum were responsible for all of it. Over the years, John helped make the museum the state-of-the-art facility it is today and created a legacy in art security for decades to come. Focusing on six thefts but filled with countless stories that span the late 1970s through the 21st Century, John opens the files on thefts, shows how museum personnel along with local and sometimes Federal Agents opened investigations and more often than not caught the thief. But of ultimate importance was the recovery of the artwork, including Celtic and Egyptian gold, French tapestries, Greek sculpture, and more. At the heart of this book there will always be art—those who love it and those who take it, two groups of people that are far from mutually exclusive.


An Opening of the Field

An Opening of the Field

Author: Michael Duncan

Publisher: Pomegranate Communications

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764965821

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After meeting in San Francisco in 1950, they soon created a domestic life based on mutual intellectual and aesthetic interests. In reexamining myths through a synthesis of art and literature, their deeply interrelated works stand as crucial assemblages of the meaning of our time. An Opening of the Field presents a rich cross-section of Jess's paintings and collages and Duncan's colourful abstract drawings, as well as a gallery of works by the artists and poets who were intimates in their circle, including Helen Adam, James Broughton, Patricia Jordan, R. B. Kitaj, Michael McClure, Jack Spicer, Dean Stockwell and many others. Essays by Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff examine the artists' lives and works; William Breazeale interprets the complexity of a major Jess collage; and James Maynard offers a synopsis of the poetry scene of the time. Concise biographies are included for each of the artists and poets featured in the circle.o


Art of the Gold Rush

Art of the Gold Rush

Author: Janice T. Driesbach

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0520214323

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"Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.


When I Remember I See Red

When I Remember I See Red

Author: Frank R. LaPena

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780520300811

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"Published on the occasion of the exhibition When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California, organized by the Crocker Art Museum"--Copyright page.