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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent Eshel Kreiter Explores the life and art of John Sargent and what other people said about his work. OL16052371W
American Artists, Authors, and Collectors American Artists, Authors, and Collectors Bennard B. Perlman "As an artist, author, critic, consultant, teacher, and museum lecturer, Walter Pach was instrumental in shaping America's attitudes toward modern art during the first half of the twentieth century. … OL1814391W
Eric Fischl 1970-2000 Eric Fischl 1970-2000 Steve Martin,Arthur C. Danto,Robert Enright "This volume is the latest and most comprehensive examination of this important twentieth-century painter. Two hundred thirty-three works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the full sc… OL18423788W
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe Britta Benke Sensuality and color fuse with nature The art of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is splendid with color and laden with hidden sensuality. O'Keeffe's fame was largely earned by her large… OL18667906W
More dimensions than you know More dimensions than you know Jack Whitten More Dimensions Than You Know takes as its focal point nearly 25 paintings created in the years from 1979 to 1989, highlighting Whitten's propensity for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries… OL19730748W
13 Stradomska Street 13 Stradomska Street Andrew Potok "Potok is blind but he makes us see not only the pre-World War Two landscape from which he and his family fled, but also how and why and at what price."--Jay Neugeboren, author of "Max Baer and the S… OL20049713W
Elizabeth Peyton Elizabeth Peyton Elizabeth Peyton Item contains chapters from books, poems and extracts from literature as well as plates of work by the artist. OL2265262W
Jubilee City Jubilee City Joe Andoe,Joe Andoe Joe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitne… OL278382W
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe Richard D. Marshall,Yvonne Scott,Georgia O'Keeffe,Achille Bonito Oliva "Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in th… OL2910811W
Eric Fischl, 1970-2007 Eric Fischl, 1970-2007 Arthur C. Danto,Robert Enright,Eric Fischl "This volume is an examination of the contemporary figurative painter Eric Fischl. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the scope of Fischl's career: the formative wo… OL3809779W
Walton Ford Walton Ford Steven Katz "Working in the tradition of such legendary animal painters as John James Audubon, Walton Ford brings new life and vigor to the great legacy of artist/natural historians. The sheer visual beauty and … OL3963911W
Clyfford Still Clyfford Still Clyfford Still "Clyfford Still (1904-1980), best known for his compelling abstract works with jagged fields and powerful expanses of color, stands among the giants of post - World War II art. Together with his peer… OL4056605W
Art and the crisis of marriage Art and the crisis of marriage Vivien Green Fryd "Art and the Crisis of Marriage provides both a penetrating reappraisal of the interconnections between Georgia O'Keeffe's and Edward Hopper's lives and works, as well as a vivid portrait of how new … OL4121512W
Billy Al Bengston Billy Al Bengston Billy Al Bengston 143 pages : 25 x 26 cm OL4991138W
Gene Davis, a memorial exhibition Gene Davis, a memorial exhibition Jacquelyn Days Serwer "Jacquelyn Serwer, assistant curator at the National Museum of American Art, gives an overview of Davis's thirty-five-year career. Artist and author Douglas Davis, who serves as critic for Newsweek m… OL5282906W
Mary Cassatt Mary Cassatt Thomas Streissguth Presents the life and work of Mary Cassatt, the only American artist included with the French Impressionists. OL97647W