[publisher: Groton House 1991] COLLECTORS LIKE NEW. Hardcover w/ like new dustjacket protected in mylar. Interior pages LIKE NEW. 147 pages, 120 illustrations, with 82 duotone and 8 full color..-- Survey focusing on the artist's minimalist work, primarily in monochrome, organized in four sections: Early Paintings and Tablet Paintings; Neo-Expressionist Paintings and Return to Minimalism; Collages, Reliefs, and Paperfolds; and Prints.

Eleanore Mikus: Shadows of the Real

Hobbs, Robert Carleton

Bernstock, Judith

Arts & Photography

Univ of Washington Pr

Maud Gatewood: Re-Visions

Individual Artists

History & Criticism

Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years

An exploration of the first generation of American abstract expressionists. Texts by Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin. 140 pages; 15 full-page color plates + 135 b&w illustrations; 8.75 x 11.25 inches.

Levin, Gail

Whitney Museum of American Art

Herbert F. Joh

Cornell University Press

Biography of American Primitive Painter Earl Cunningham.

Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden

Cunningham, Earl

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The seductively bright colors, naive frankness, and highly detailed imagery of the paintings of American artist Earl Cunningham (1893-1977) are hard to resist. Whether depicting the Maine coast or Florida's Everglades, harbor scenes with Norse ships or American schooners, or Seminole Indian encampments, Cunningham's work comprises a major contribution to America's artistic heritage. Great attention has recently been focused on folk and outsider art, and among these artists Cunningham is remarkable, both for the length of his career and for his development from a more traditional "American Primitive," as he labeled himself in the 1930s, to a sophisticated vernacular artist in the 1960s and 1970s. In Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden author Robert Hobbs gives a vivid picture of the adventurous and controversial life of this self-taught artist. Choosing not to view Cunningham's work as separate from mainstream cultural trends, Hobbs shows how the artist carried on a dialogue with modern art and culture. He traces the intriguing mix of sophistication and naivete present in all of Cunningham's paintings and suggests how he might have drawn on sources such as 19th-century American marine painting, Fauvism, the art of Charles Burchfield or Milton Avery, and even Walt Disney's animated characters. Special attention is given to the artist's series, including his meditations on trains, lighthouses, storms and hurricanes, angel Gabriel weather vanes, and exotic wildlife. Earl Cunningham's intensely colored landscapes are American Edens filled with wonder. In the book's foreword Lynda Roscoe Hartigan provides critical insight into Cunningham's life and artistic odyssey. The 74 brilliant color images are accompanied by more than 25 black-and-white illustrations, which include whimsical drawings by the artist, family snapshots, and several outstanding photographs by the award-winning photographer Jerry Uelsmann, who knew the artist in the 1960s. A large number of Earl Cunningham's paintings and other personal documents survive together today in the collection of Marilyn and Michael Mennello, who have dedicated themselves to the life of this artist. Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden accompanies a major traveling exhibition curated by Robert Hobbs and organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Beatrice Mandelman: Taos Modernist

Robert Hobbs calls Beatrice Mandelman one of the most original and important of the Taos abstract painters. An artist since the 1920s, she moved to Taos in the 1940s with her husband, Louis Ribak, and became one of the leaders of the third generation of New Mexico painters.In the evolution of her work she has shown the influences of her early teacher Louis Lozowick and friends Willem deKooning, Jackson Pollock, and other New York abstract painters. She also studied with Fernand Leger and Francis Picabia in Paris, but painting in the relative isolation of northern New Mexico allowed her to create an important regional variant of the international modern style. This book is not only a close examination of the life work of a lively and dedicated Taos artist, it is also about how Modernism developed and flourished outside of New York and Paris.

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Robert Hobbs calls Beatrice Mandelman one of the most original and important of the Taos abstract painters. An artist since the 1920s, she moved to Taos in the 1940s with her husband, Louis Ribak, and became one of the leaders of the third generation of New Mexico painters. Although Mandelman worked for the Federal Art Project in the 1930s and was an accomplished social realist, in Taos she adapted the vocabulary of Modernism to the strong light and startling landscapes of New Mexico and developed her own unique style. 
In the evolution of her work she has shown the influences of her early teacher Louis Lozowick and friends Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other New York abstract painters. She also studied with Fernand Léger and Francis Picabia in Paris, but painting in the relative isolation of northern New Mexico allowed her to create an important regional variant of the international modern style. This book is not only a close examination of the life work of a lively and dedicated Taos artist, it is also about how Modernism developed and flourished outside of New York and Paris.

Abstract expressionism, the formative years

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Julie Moos: Hat ladies

Birmingham Museum of Art

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Eleanore Mikus: Shadows of the Real

Maud Gatewood: Re-Visions

Maud Gatewood: Re-Visions

Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years

Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden

Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden

Beatrice Mandelman: Taos Modernist

Beatrice Mandelman: Taos Modernist

Abstract expressionism, the formative years

Julie Moos: Hat ladies