The Southwest, particularly Arizona and New Mexico, comes alive in this book as a land ablaze with colors and brilliance uniquely its own. Here the deep-blue expanse of sky meets the fiery reds and oranges of breathtaking canyons, deserts, and deep valleys, which stretch into rugged  mountains. This complex and diverse landscape and the extraordinary cultures thriving within it have been a wellspring of inspiration for artists and source of wonder for many. In paintings by Victor Higgins, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, Maynard Dixon, Georgia O'Keeffe and many others we, too, share in visions of the beauty, mystery, and grandeur that has drawn artists and travelers alike to the Southwest.The breathtaking expanse of the Southwest is nowhere more accessible than in the over ninety glorious landscapes of this book. Accompanying the art are selected writings of such famous authors as D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather. Suzan Campbell's introduction briefly traces the history of the Southwest along with its continual allure for both regional and visiting artists.

Paintings of the Southwest

Arts & Photography

Skolnick, Arnold

History & Criticism

Random House Value Publishing

Paintings of Maine

Many prominent American artists have painted unforgettable landscapes and seascapes of the Maine coast. Here is a collection of the most memorable, with excerpts from famous writers' works. 90 full-color illustrations.

Paintings Of Maine

Painting

Clarkson/Potter

A stunning collection of glorious landscapes from a region that has inspired great artists for generations. Here in full color are reproductions of works by Thomas Moran, George Innes, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, and many others. Full-color photographs.

The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) stands among the greatest of watercolor painters, along with J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, and other masters of this difficult medium. Watercolor was more than a distraction from the portrait and mural commissions Sargent labored over; after 1900, watercolor became central to his artistic vision. His aquarelles are, simply stated, masterworks. Portraits, interiors, landscapes, architectural studies—Sargent's work in watercolor offers a great variety of subject matter, ranging from Arab gypsies to World War I soldiers, to masterful depictions of Venetian churches, to Florida swamp alligators. Sargent carried his watercolors on his travels; They were ideally suited to capturing the scene, the light, the air, wherever he found himself. This book serves as a record of his travels, featuring the paintings he produced in Palestine, Northern Africa, the Canadian Rockies, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and Greece. Among specific locales were the islands of Majorca and Corfu; Florence, Venice, Carrara, Lake Garda, and Rome; the Alps; Lake O'Hara; the coast of Maine and the Miami River. Sargent's bold and often experimental use of the medium, which sometimes led to semi-abstract images, compels admiration among contemporary painters as well as museum goers today. In addition to placing Sargent's accomplishments in the context of his life and time, Carl Little discusses the artist's extraordinary watercolor technique.

Little, Carl

Sargent, John Singer

University of California Press

Nearly every prominent American landscape artist has worked in Maine, painting the coast and mountains, recording the infinitely varied beauty of the state. In this paperback edition of a beautiful and popular book, you'll set out on the perfect armchair tour of the greatest paintings the state has inspired - Winslow Homer, Rackstraw Downes, Andrew Wyeth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Childe Hassam, and many others are represented, their works reproduced in glowing, full-color plates.

Individual Artists

Down East Books

The Art of Maine in Winter presents more than eighty works by the finest American painters who capture the beauty of winter in Maine. Winslow Homer and Rockwell Kent, for example, stayed well into the winter, creating some of the most memorable images of Maine ever made. Snow on a meadow, ice blocks in a bay, frozen winter streams, sea smoke hovering over the ocean, and houses becoming gingerbread fantasies after a snowstorm ― these are the glories of winter in Maine that have inspired artists for almost two hundred years.

The Art of Maine in Winter

This first-ever biography of Thomas Crotty weaves insightful commentary on his painting with the story of his life as a painter and an outspoken commentator in his own right on modern theories of art. Often described as a romantic-realist, Crotty is more comfortable with the word naturalist when an attempt is made to categorize him.

Thomas Crotty

Miller, Francine

This book traces the artistic and cultural roots of the special appeal that the island of Monhegan in Maine has held over a broad range of artists who have resided there, some of them year-round for long periods, others who summered there or lived there only briefly. Includes examples in color of the works of 80 artists, including Wyeth (Jamie), Bogdanov, Bellows, Frederick, Henri, Hopper, and Kent.

The Art of Monhegan Island

These photographs were taken in the early 1970s for a book on sexual love. At a time when people were jailed for depicting acts of intimacy, artist and photographer Arnold Skolnick made some of the most memorable and erotic images of the twentieth century, many far too sophisticated for the book for which they were taken. Of the few that were exhibited at the time, a critic wrote: "These photos give the forms of two people making love the grandeur and power of sculpture. One is, of course, reminded of Rodin." With good reason not to promote them, Skolnick stored the negatives and contact sheets away for over thirty years, but he did not forget them. Now, having reached his seventieth birthday, Skolnick has gone back to the work, to produce an extraordinarily beautiful lovesong—a lush and highly sensual celebration of the union of man and woman. LoveSong features fifty-five stunning tritone images, printed in Italy, and is bound in full satin, with a satin slipcase. 55 tritone photographs.

LoveSong: The Erotic Photographs of Arnold Skolnick

Quantuck Lane

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Paintings of the Southwest

Paintings Of Maine

Paintings of the Southwest

The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent

Paintings of Maine

The Art of Maine in Winter

Thomas Crotty

The Art of Monhegan Island

LoveSong: The Erotic Photographs of Arnold Skolnick