Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important living American painters and sculptors. His career is closely tied to the abstract style of "hard-edge" painting in the Sixties, with color field painting and the Minimalist school. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form, frequently enhanced by bright colors. Alongside his geometrical paintings, Kelly is famous for his beautiful drawings of plants, flowers, and leaves, which were shown together with Matisse's plant drawings at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2002. His book of drawings and watercolors is appearing to coincide with a large museum show that starts at Graphische Sammlung, Munich, in fall 2011 and which will travel on to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in spring 2012. Two texts by the curators (Michael Semff, Munich, and Marla Prather, New York) describe the plant drawings in the context of Ellsworth Kelly's oeuvre as a whole.

Product Description: For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as one of Britain's most important abstract artists, renowned for large paintings that feature complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. It is fascinating to discover that she sees her decidedly modern paintings as following in an Old Master pictorial tradition...read more

The tie-in to an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art presents more than three hundred reproductions that chronicle the career of Lucas Samaras through a seleciton of his stunning self-portraits in a variety of media, accompanied by an illuminating biography of the artist.

Product Description: The striking mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder are among the most notable and original creations of twentieth-century art. Combining for the first time movement and sculpture, these works represent a new and highly influential departure from the practices of the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the catalogue to accompany a major exhibition of the work of Alexander Calder, an exhibition which explores and reflects the full diversity of his oeuvre. The exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on 29 March 1998.

Product Description: One of America's greatest painters, Willem de Kooning is a masterful colourist whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s, coincides with the artist's ninetieth birthday in the spring of 1994...read more

Shows a variety of Gauguin's paintings, drawings, and prints, discusses his life and career, and includes selections from his own writings