Tempera was a primary medium for artistic expression in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Milk and Eggs examines the American re-emergence of tempera painting in the mid-20th century. It experienced a renaissance in the work of a large number of mostly unconnected American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Jacob Lawrence, and Andrew Wyeth among others. 
Milk and Eggs focuses on four centers where tempera painting was revived--Yale University School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, the studio of N. C. Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Kansas City Art Institute--and the historical, cultural, and philosophical factors that drove the revival, including the Great Depression and the Works Progress Administration. It also examines the medium in great detail, its materials and preparation, and arrives at a definition of tempera. Moreover, the results of extensive analysis of certain works of art is included.

Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950

Arts & Photography

Newman, Richard

Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art

Brandywine River Museum

Akron Art Museum

History & Criticism

Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Univ of Hawaii Pr

This book introduces later Chinese Buddhist pictorial art as a subject of serious study and considers together traditions of Buddhist painting that are not generally associated with each other. 32 color plates.

Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism 850-1850

Kent, Richard K.

Twenty progressive artists in Brussels among them many of the most important artists then working in Belgium formed the exhibition society Les XX in late 1883. This exhibition catalog includes a generous selection of their prints, drawings, posters, books, and journals (234 illustrations, 19 in color), while six essays explore the bonds between the visual arts, politics, literature, and music and their expression in Belgian graphic arts, and demonstrate the relevance of Les XX to several late 19th-century progressive artistic movements. Produced by the Spencer Museum of Art, U. of Kansas, and distributed by the U. of Washington Press. 9.25x11.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books Ca. 1890

Museum Voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent, Belgium)

Spencer Museum of Art

Goltzius and the Third Dimension

Ganz, James A.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Elvehjem Museum of Art

GODDARD, Stephen H.

Graphic Design

Clark Art Inst

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