The first exploration of the art that Georgia O'Keeffe retained for her personal collection, including works that have never been publicly exhibited. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's preeminent artists and one of the first to experiment with abstract form, though she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. An enormously popular artist, she became identified and respected as an independent American spirit through both her art and her life. At the time of her death in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe owned more than half of the approximately 2,000 works she had produced during the eighty years she was active as an artist: some 400 works in oil, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and watercolor, as well as more than 700 sketches. For various reasons, she had always kept a portion of her art out of the public eye and these works were not published, exhibited, or available for purchase during her lifetime. Among the works that had been exhibited and sold over the years, some were repurchased by O'Keeffe as they became available. This book explores for the first time the significance of O'Keeffe's collection of her own work. Approximately 75 seminal works, dating from about 1910 through the 1960s and reproduced in full color, document the range and quality of the art that O'Keeffe either chose to retain in her estate or consciously distributed to institutions in her lifetime and as bequests. It reveals her thinking in relation to her oeuvre, providing a unique perspective from which to understand O'Keeffe as artist and collector. The book accompanies an exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the principal recipients to date of art from the O'Keeffe estate. The exhibition coincides with the opening of the Milwaukee Art Museum's major addition designed by noted Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. 110 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations

O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection

Lynes, Barbara Buhler

Bowman, Russell

Milwaukee Art Museum

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Thames&Hudson

Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the 17th century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens’ career, features more than 50 paintings―many of them newly discovered in private collections―and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art. 
Lievens began his career in his native Leiden, where he worked closely with his compatriot Rembrandt, who admired and collected Lievens’ works. Lievens then moved to London, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, and his peripatetic career and multitude of working styles, say the authors of this book, may explain why his reputation today is not as high as it should be. This book offers a necessary corrective, returning to Lievens the esteem he deserves.

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.

Stephanie S. Dickey

Jan Lievens

National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Staff

Museum Het Rembrandthuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Staff

National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Jewish Contribution in Twentieth-Century Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Arts & Photography

'30s America: Prints from the Milwaukee Art Museum

Other Media

The Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum’s collection of American folk art reflects the art worlds’ increasing interest in the genre. A major part of the collection comes from Michael and Julie Hall’s extensive collection, acquired by the museum in the early 1990s. Parts of the collection went on nation-wide tour during 1993–1995, with this volume clearly explaining the importance of the genre, the vision of the collectors, and the beauty of the pieces of art, all produced by self-taught artists. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Common Ground/Uncommon Vision: The Michael and Julie Hall Collection of American Folk Art in the Milwaukee Art Museum

History & Criticism

Pop!: Prints from the Milwaukee Art Museum

Both European and American Folk Art is explored in this volume documenting another facet of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s permanent collection of folk and outsider art. This collection includes works by Wolfli, Traylor, Yoakum, Wallis and others. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Driven to Create: The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art

This book examines the artistic work of Chicago native Jim Nutt, an important contemporary American artist. The publication provides an occasion to assess Nutt's works and the connections among them and his group, the Hairy Who. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jim Nutt

Celebrating one of the primary corporate collections in the state of Wisconsin (belonging to Quad Graphics), this book provides a model of enlightened corporate collecting for the entire country, highlighting the company's overwhelmingly generous record of support and an unusually sensitive corporate understanding fo the value of art. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Ink on Paper: The Quad/Collection 1971-1996

Celebrating one of the primary corporate collections in the state of Wisconsin (belonging to Quad Graphics), this book provides a model of enlightened corporate collecting for the entire country, highlighting the company's overwhelmingly generous record of support and an unusually sensitive corporate understanding fo the value of art.Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Ink on Paper: The Quad / Collection, 1971-1996

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