    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

This catalog is a reminder and a celebration of forty-five years of drawing by a contemporary Wisconsin artist whose graphic sensibilities have lent a modern luster to the great tradition of drawing that has flourished since the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Germany and Italy.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

John Wilde Drawings: 1940–1984 (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

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

This publication illustrates works produced by the artist between 1964 and 1992, and documents two special installations for the Elvehjem (now Chazen.)Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Patrick Ireland: Labyrinths, Language, Pyramids, and Related Acts (Chazen Museum of Art Catalogs)

Van Der Marck, Jan

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

American furniture and prints as well as English ceramics from an extraordinary Milwaukee collection tell stories of stylistic change, regional preference, solutions of technological problems, artisan-patron relations in a market economy, the new consumer impulse for more and different furnishings, and how Americans responded to English, European, Asian, and African influences.Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630-1820, from the Chipstone Collection

Martin, Ann Smart

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

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