Product Description: This book examines the artistic work of Chicago native Jim Nutt, an important contemporary American artist. The publication provides an occasion to assess Nutt's works and the connections between, among them and his group, the Hairy Who.

Product Description: Unequivocally one of the major figures in twentieth century architecture, Wright is one of the most important artists the State of Wisconsin has produced. Of some 150 buildings Wright designed for Wisconsin, fifty are represented in this exhibition, giving insight into how Wright’s Wisconsin roots shaped his early ideas and practice...read more

Product Description: Despite being institutionalized for schizophrenia at age thirty-one, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) achieved artistic greatness in his cell at Waldau Mental Asylum near his native Bern, Switzerland. He has had a profound influence on modern art ever since; André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuvres of the twentieth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums. A testimony to the remarkable history of collecting and patronage in Poland, it showcases Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent "Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)", but also includes important works by Hans Memling, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernardo Bellotto, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Marie-Louise Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, and others...read more

Milton Avery's late paintings, created between 1947 and 1963, stand at the nexus of figurative modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Frequently viewed as the last of the great American figurative painters, Avery, as this book argues, provides a key to understanding the artists of the second half of the American century. This volume accompanies the first exhibition of Avery's art since the popular 1982 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art; it is the first book on Avery in over a decade. A 1958 essay by the seminal critic Clement Greenberg provides a valuable period context, while the new text by Robert Hobbs includes an insightful connection between Avery's painting and the lyrical modernism of Wallace Stevens's poetry, which will intrigue lovers of American poetry as well as American art. This book, and the exhibition that it accompanies, were organized by the American Federation of Arts.

Product Description: The Milwaukee Museum of Art is an architectural landmark with three buildings designed by three legendary architects: Eero Saarinen, David Kahler, and Santiago Calatrava. This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the museum with its $10 million Quadracci Pavilion; the new addition designed by world-famous Spanish architect, Calatrava...read more

Complemented by more than one hundred full-color illustrations, this unusual study examines some of the art, including some seventy-five seminal works dating from 1910 through the 1960s, that Georgia O'Keeffe chose to keep for her own collection and discusses the significance of these works in terms of her oeuvre and her role as artist and collector. 15,000 first printing.