Georgia O'Keeffe kept at least half of the 2000 paintings she produced in her 80 years of active production of art. Here are 70 of them, with a text that considers their significance in light of the artist's life and oeuvre.
The work of Gabriele Munter (1877-1962) shines like a jewel in the male-dominated avant-garde Expressionist movement. Most accounts of the frenetically creative years in Munich and Murnau fail to recognize the uniqueness of Munter's vision: her work is unjustly eclipsed by that of her colleagues, not least Vassily Kandinsky's. This book redresses ...
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. ...
With essays by Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Arthur C. Danto, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Owen Jones, Randall Morris, Sharon Patton, Charles Russell, Maude Southwell Wahlman, and Alison Weld The creators of self-taught art have no academic artistic training and little connection to the established traditions of Western art history. Yet their ...
The Milwaukee Art Museum's collection of American folk art reflects the art worlds' increasing interest in the genre. A major part of the collection comes from Michael and Julie Hall's extensive collection, acquired by the museum in the early 1990s. Parts of the collection went on nation-wide tour during 1993-1995, with this volume clearly ...
Published for the exhibition "Old Master Drawings from Area Collections" held in the Milwaukee Art Museum, this book is a critique of this collection, identifying strengths and weaknesses. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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 among them and his group, the Hairy Who. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
This text celebrates the Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture. Each object is accompanied by an authoritative commentary, providing insight in to the culture, religion and history of the Renaissance.
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