Helen Plum Library

The life and paintings of Albert Ryder

"Sheldon Peck is acknowledged not only as a very fine folk-art portraitist but also as a radical abolitionist. Ordinarily, those two arenas would not intersect in life, or in a book about the work of a folk artist, however, research about Sheldon Peck and his life support the belief that many of his subjects were also abolitionists. Therefore, his portraits are not only enjoyed and analyzed as art, they are viewed as documentation of regional abolitionist...

"This career-spanning monograph of Richard Mayhew's landscape paintings includes images, a contextual essay, and an exclusive interview with the artist himself."--

"Monet - Mitchell explores the artistic parallels between Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) and Claude Monet (1840-1926), who lived and worked in the same area outside of Paris at different moments in time, responding to a shared landscape. Mitchell achieved recognition in the New York scene in the 1950s before gradually settling in Paris at the end of the decade and establishing her studio in 1968 in ̌Vtheuil--where Monet lived for several years. The book...