The book of the The World of Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt March 6 -May 23 1993 and Museum of Fine Atrs, Houston June 6 - August 29, 1993

The World of Frida Kahlo: The Blue House

Arts & Photography

Museum of Fine Arts. Houston

History & Criticism

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Book by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Czech Modernism: 1900-1945

Bulfinch Pr

Museum of Modern Art [Published date: 1983]. Soft cover, 184 pp. [From back cover] Lee Krasner, born in Brooklyn of Russian emigre parents in 1908, began to paint seriously while still in her teens.For more than half a century she has worked at her art with intensity, intellect, and discipline. Always innovative, always independent and outspoken, she has not feared going against the grain of academic or vanguard ideas and ideals. Eleven years of marriage to Jackson Pollock resulted in her own career being overshadowed, but she has now achieved recognition for her role as a seminal first generation Abstract Expressionist.In this retrospective catalog, enhanced by an extensive chronology and bibliography, Barbara Rose follows complex threads in the life of a painter who calls all of her work "autobiography": early studies at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design and with Hans Hofmann; Depression jobs with the WPA Federal Art Project; involvement in the turbulent New York art scene of the 1940s and 1950s; the years with Pollock and the trauma of his early death; growth and self-realization during the succeeding twenty-seven years.Krasner never stood still. "It can be argued," saysRose, "that hers is the greatest critical eye of her generation"-for herself, as well as for others. It is no easy task to trace the development of an artist who constantly edited and reinvented her own work, destroying earlier paintings or literally ripping them apart and reassembling the pieces. This book seeks the continuity of spirit behind such abrupt stylistic ruptures as punctuate Krasner's careerand describes "a life lived richly, organically, authentically, and bravely, expressed in an art one could describe in the same manner."

Lee Krasner: A Retrospective

Rose, Barbara

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Krasner, Lee

Museum of Modern Art

Inspired by Houston's complex mixture of small-town folkways and urban hustle, glitzy skyscrapers and sluggish bayous, space-age life style and Southern gentility, the Texas artists have turned their backs on the formalist concerns of New York, Rose notes in her catalogue introduction. They have produced instead a ''humanist figurative'' art, emphasizing ''content and moral concerns,'' narrative incident, interest in detail, ''tactile values'' and drawing. And, working away at the fine-art tradition while New York basked in what she calls the ''novelty-oriented'' 60's, they refused to believe that painting was dead.

Fresh Paint: The Houston School

Kalil, Susie

Olympic Marketing Corp

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A guide to the collection

The Museum

The Sonia and Kaye Marvins portrait collection

Individual Artists

Shows elementary, high school, and college classrooms, labs, kitchens, language labs, and lecture halls

American Classroom: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner

Wagner, Catherine

Tucker, Anne Wilkes

Photography & Video

Book by Andel, Jaroslav, Stefan, Hvezdoslav

Czech Modernism 1900-1945

Stefan, Hvezdoslav

Since 1975, the Houston-based Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation has formed a distinguished collection of European Old Master paintings from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century for exhibition in museums, universities, and art centers throughout Texas. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major exhibition of the foundation's finest paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Prominent experts introduce these masterpieces of the Blaffer Collection in essays on still life, landscape, genre painting, portraiture, and history painting.

Masterpieces of Baroque Painting from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Shackelford, George T.M.

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