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The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp

The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp

Edited by Peter H. Hassrick

Contributions by Marie Watkins, Sarah E. Boehme, Kelin Michael and Karen B. McWhorter

This volume marks a fresh inspection of who Sharp was, how and where he was trained as a painter, why he selected the nation’s western Native population as a primary subject, what impact his imagery had on audiences across the continent and how his production as a painter of  what he referred to as the “real Americans” differed from that of his contemporary peers.

Leon Gaspard

Leon Gaspard

The Call of Distant Places

by Forrest Fenn and Carleen Milburn

Leon Shulman Gaspard (1882–1964) was an interesting addition to the New Mexico arts scene when he arrived in 1918. A Russian-born, French-trained veteran of the airborne campaigns of the Great War, he arrived physically diminished from a horrific plane crash that had put him in a French hospital for two years. Seeking a more hospitable climate, he arrived in Taos to find a vibrant arts community and an exotic blend of native, western and Hispanic cultures.

Charles M. Russell

Charles M. Russell

The Women in His Life and Art

Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli

Introduction by Brian W. Dippie

Contributions by Emily C. Wilson, Jennifer Bottomly-O'looney and Thomas A. Petrie

Lavishly illustrated with full-color illustrations, Charles M. Russell: The Women in His Life and Art presents groundbreaking essays essential to understanding the role of western women in Russell’s art. This volume is both a tribute to the women who nurtured Russell’s artistic development and a landmark in the study of the role of women in a genre all too often identified almost exclusively with a masculine world.

Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt

Witness to a Changing West

Edited by Peter H. Hassrick

Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge

Contributions by Arthur Amiotte, Emily C. Burns, Dan Flores, Laura F. Fry, Karen B. McWhorter and Melissa W. Speidel

Along with its rich sampling of Bierstadt’s diverse artwork, Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West features informative essays by noted curators, scholars of art history, and historians of the American West.
 

Five Years in America

Five Years in America

The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gachet

by Sylvia S. Kasprycki

Introduction by François Ruegg

This unusually well-documented collection, preserved at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, is here published for the first time in its entirety as Five Years in America: The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gache, a catalogue raisonné together with a selection of Gachet’s hitherto unpublished drawings held by the Capuchin Friary in Fribourg.

Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist

Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist

by Mark Humpal

An accomplished painter who achieved national fame during the New Deal era, Strong is best known for his depiction of landscapes in California and Oregon, rendered in his signature plein air style. This beautiful volume, featuring more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations, is the first comprehensive exploration of Strong’s life and artistry.
 

Borderless

Borderless

The Art of Luis Tapia

Foreword by Dana Gioia

Introduction by Charlene Villaseñor Black

Contributions by Denise Chávez, Edward Hayes, Lucy R. Lippard and Tey Marianna Nunn

Edited by Carmella Padilla

In this first publication devoted to Tapia’s artistic legacy, leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia’s art as a visual touchstone for a tradition in transition, one that Tapia continues to hold to and break through.

Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington

A Catalogue Raisonné II

Edited by Peter H. Hassrick

Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge

One of America’s most popular and influential American artists, Frederic Remington (1860 - 1909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II is a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s body of flat work, both in print and on this book’s companion website.

Painted Journeys

Painted Journeys

The Art of John Mix Stanley

by Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw

Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge

This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture.

A World Unconquered

A World Unconquered

The Art of Oscar Brousse Jacobson

by Anne Allbright, Janet Catherine Berlo and Mark Andrew White

Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882–1966) was a prolific artist who devoted much of his career to the depiction of the wilderness of the American West, especially Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,...

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