    This exhibition catalogue focuses on the art and friendships of the American artists Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), Sylvia Fein (b. 1919), Marshall Glasier (1902–1988), Dudley Huppler (1917–1988), Karl Priebe (1914–1976), and John Wilde (b. 1919). The first intensive study of this close-knit group explores the artistic and personal relationships they shared. Cozzolino provides insight into a figurative branch of postwar American modernism that has been often neglected in favor of abstract expressionism.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

With Friends: Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965 (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Arts & Photography

Cozzolino, Robert

Chazen Museum of Art

History & Criticism

Don Reitz is recognized as one of the most important and influential ceramic artists of this century. Trained at Alfred University in the early 1960s, Reitz has pursued a life-long investigation of salt and wood firing of his ceramic pieces in order to preserve the energy and freshness of his artistic marks and gestures. Finding that the texture and unpredictability of salt-firing suited his work, Reitz almost single-handedly revived this neglected technique, and through long experimentation developed a range of colors and surface effects previously unknown in salt-firing. Juggling and manipulating the variables in each firing, Reitz is a virtuoso who relishes knowing what he can control and what he cannot. His work maintains a fine balance between technical mastery and improvisation. The Elvehjem Museum of Art (now the Chazen Museum of Art) retrospective features some seventy-four ceramic works that Reitz created between 1960 and the present. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Don Reitz: Clay, Fire, Salt, and Wood (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Individual Artists

Elvehjem Museum

The bold protest images from posters and publications of the 1930s and the 1960s, two decades of upheaval and radical ferment for American Society, are profiled and contrasted.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Imagery of Dissent: Protest Art from the 1930's and 1960's (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Muller, Mary Lee

In the first half of the 20th century Milwaukee collector Ethel Liebman acquired hundreds of exquisite Chinese export porcelains, which were presented to the Elvehjem (now Chazen) in the 1970s. Over a hundred of these wares are described and documented, including armorial and pseudo-armorial pieces, some porcelains decorated with indigenous Eastern designs, and others with Western motifs. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chinese Export Porcelain from the Liebman Collection

Brawer, Catherine Coleman

Thirty-four poets use art in the Elvehjem galleries as their inspiration.  Each artwork is shown on a page facing the poem.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Lithuanian carvings produced under Soviet occupation during the 1970s and 1980s reflect mythic folk themes, coded Christian iconography, satire, and themes of national identity.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sacred Wood: The Contemporary Lithuanian Woodcarving Revival

From a Mycenaean cup of the 14th century B.C., through Villanovan urns, Etruscan bucchero, Corinthian, black-figure, red-figure, Campanian, Apulian, and Sicilian of the 3rd through 1st century B.C., here is a description and illustration of approximately sixty-five ancient Greek vases in the Elvehjem collection along with essays about the history of vase production and the use of the vase.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Hurwitt, Jeffrey M.

Crafts & Hobbies

Coins, because of their abundance and intimate connection to the ruling elite of the ancient Greco-Roman, world offer a unique insight into the historical events of their time and into the social history of power and propaganda. This catalog illustrates and describes 193 coins from a 6th century B.C. Lydian coin to one minted at Constantinople under Theodosius I circa A.D. 380.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ancient Coins at the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Howe, Herbert M.

Four Wisconsin artists, Martha Glowacki, Mark Lorenzi, Natasha Nicholson, and Mary Alice Wimmer, are passionate collectors who use objects from their own collections to inform their individual artwork. This catalog documents an installation by each of the four artists that is reminiscent of the 16th- and 17th- century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of wonders, private collections of natural and man-made objects. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cabinets of Curiosities: Four Artists, Four Visions

Goldyne, Joseph R.

Garver, Thomas

    Peter Gourfain emerged on the New York art scene in the 1960s showing minimalist sculpture. Since the 1980s his work has become figurative, expressionist, personal, and socially engaged. Many of Gourfain’s terracotta reliefs, large-scale urns, cast bronzes, woodcarvings, prints, and paintings deliver specific messages about political and social issues, often of universal importance. Gourfain’s carved homage to Michael Stewart, an African American art student from Brooklyn who died from a beating, allegedly by eleven NYPD officers, presents a tragic story with an important message.    A chronicler of our times, Gourfain portrays the human struggle and makes vivid comment on social injustice in America. His 1994 large-scale bronze sculpture "Powerful Days" features images from milestones in African American history. His dramatic narratives also often weave in themes and songs from the work of James Joyce, exemplified by the 1990 woodblock print "Finnegan’s Wake."    Trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gourfain has exhibited his work at the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the Jewish Museum in New York, among others. The Elvehjem (now Chazen) Museum’s exhibition is the first major showing of Gourfain’s work since a presentation at the Brooklyn Museum in 1987.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Peter Gourfain: Clay, Wood, Bronze, and Works on Paper

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