Grandma Moses and her paintings first came to public attention in 1940, when she was 80 years old. Her folk art, down-home personality, and background as a farmer and homemaker charmed the American public. By the time she died at the age of 101, she had completed over 1600 works of art and had established an international reputation. The work of "the white-haired girl," a self-taught artist who was a regular news feature for two decades, remained enormously popular at home and abroad even in the years after her death. 
For this reevaluation of the work of Grandma Moses, Jane Kallir contributes an authoritative introduction and presents a catalogue that illustrates 87 of Moses' most important works. Kallir traces Moses' development as an artist from the first embroidered landscapes to the glorious paintings of her "old-age style." The Grandma Moses myth is tackled from various perspectives. Roger Cardinal examines the artist's working methods, exploring the relationship between the actual regional landscape and her interpretation of the area. Michael D. Hall places Moses within the context of contemporary artistic and social movements of the 1940s and 1950s. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan reveals how memory and imagination merge in the paintings. And Judith E. Stein discusses the role of gender in shaping the artist's reputation in the postwar years.

Grandma Moses: in the 21st Century

Arts & Photography

Kallir, Jane

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

A volume of Egon Schiele's work, including an illustrated biography and catalogue raisonne, encompassing 3275 works. This expanded edition features 205 extra catalogue raisonne entries, and includes a list of exhibitions, and details on provenance, signature styles and materials used by the artist.

Egon Schiele : The Complete Works

Gardners Books

Physical description: 152 pages. Notes: Includes bibliography and footnotes. Includes inscription from previous owner. Subjects: Design. Vienna. Wiener Werkstatte. Genre: Illustrated text.

VIENNESE DESIGN AND THE WIENER WERKSTATTE (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

A history of modern folk art focuses on crafts-oriented religious art, nineteenth-century American limner portraits, and twentieth-century naive painting

The Folk Art Tradition: 2 (Studio Book)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Studio

Jane Kallir's comprehensive work not only charts the rise, flowering and decay of the Wiener Werkstatte, but assesses its extraordinary artistic achievements in every branch of design. In doing so, the author analyzes for the first time the dense web of connections―institutional and educational, intellectual and social―that enabled the imaginative leaders of the Werkstatte to impress upon the Austrian elite and the world beyond their visual ideals and stylistic idiom.  ―Carl E. Schorske At the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna emerged as a great cultural centre that stood at the forefront of developments in music, psychology, and the natural sciences. Equally influential, and still tremendously popular today, are the designs of the Wiener Werkstatte, or Vienna Workshop, a group that was at the heart of the city's cultural scene and whose collaborators included such luminaries as the architect Josef Hoffman, the designer Koloman Moser, and the painters Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele. This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siecle Vienna is an excellent introduction to their work in all media - from architecture, furniture, ceramics, and glass, to silver, fashion, and textiles, bookbinding, toys, painting, and the graphic arts - as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period. 55 color plates and 195 black & white illustrations

Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte

George Braziller, Inc.

Examines the Vienna Workshop's style of architecture, furniture, fashion, and the graphic arts at the turn of the century

George Braziller

Provides a biographical chronology of Schiele's work, with an exhibition checklist and an essay about the artist's subjects

Egon Schiele

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) are featured here in 25 large reproductions, many enriched with gold and silver. Every painting is accompanied by a brief commentary examining its place in the artist's development, the circumstances of the commission, and the role of the subject in Klimt's personal world in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Gustav Klimt: 25 Masterworks

Harry N. Abrams

Egon Schiele: 27 Masterworks brings together a group of the artist's most significant works, including a cross-section of his major paintings and many of his most beautiful watercolors and drawings. A thorough overview of the oils enables the reader to understand the artist's overriding creative ambitions, but it is in his works on paper that Schiele truly stands out. As evidenced by the numerous oversize and superbly printed reproductions in this book, Schiele deserves to be counted among the foremost draftsmen of all time, ranking alongside Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein. Egon Schiele: 27 Masterworks follows the entire trajectory of the artist's career, beginning with his early Gustav Klimt-influenced paintings and his startling Expressionist breakthrough in 1910 at the tender age of 20, to his more serene late works, completed shortly before his untimely death at the age of 28.

Egon Schiele: 27 Masterworks

SCHIELE, Egon

Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, after sixty years of working as an upstate New York farm wife, became celebrated in the international art world as Grandma Moses. With a palette of pure colors and a true vision, she presented recollections of her girlhood in meticulously painted observations of a long-since-vanished rural America. Her scenes of farm life and holiday revels and her seasonal landscapes abound in charm untouched by sentimentality. In this sumptuously produced volume, twenty-five of Grandma Moses' finest works are shown in large scale. A number of details enrich the book, offering an opportunity to view her brushwork as though looking closely at the original. Photographs of the artist and her family add yet another dimension. Individual commentaries address each work, explaining what Moses was trying to do and her methods. Vivid quotations in the artist's own words add another facet to this highly enjoyable book.

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Grandma Moses: in the 21st Century

Egon Schiele : The Complete Works

VIENNESE DESIGN AND THE WIENER WERKSTATTE (PAPERBACK) /ANGLAIS

The Folk Art Tradition: 2 (Studio Book)

Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte

Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstatte

Egon Schiele

Gustav Klimt: 25 Masterworks

Egon Schiele: 27 Masterworks

Grandma Moses