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Books by Elsa Smithgall
  | | William Merritt Chase(Illustrated) A Modern Master by Elsa Smithgall, John Davis, Erica Hirshler, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Giovanna Ginex, D. Frederick Baker, William Merritt Chase, Et Al. Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20626-5, ISBN: 0-300-20626-7 "A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849 1916), one of America s influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urba ..." |
 | | Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence(1st Edition) Painting with White Border (Phillips Collection) by Elsa Smithgall, Wassily Kandinsky, Elizabeth Steele, Tracey Bashkoff, Gillian Mcmillan, Elsa Kandinsky Smithgall, Phillips Collection Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2011 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17078-8, ISBN: 0-300-17078-5 "Russian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork "Painting with White Border" (1913; Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an intensely creative period in his artistic development. "Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence"presents a rare, in-depth examination of the painting and more than fifteen preparatory studies in watercolor, ..." |
 | | Jacob Lawrence(Reprint) The Migration Series by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jodi Roberts, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Young Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-964-7, ISBN: 0-87070-964-X "In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..." |
 | | Jacob Lawrence(Reprint) The Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young, Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-040-0, ISBN: 1-63345-040-6 "Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..." |
 | | Bonnard to Vuillard, The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant by Elsa Smithgall, Sarah Bertalan, Isabelle Cahn, Clément Dessy, Katherine Kuenzli Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Rizzoli Electa ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6681-6, ISBN: 0-8478-6681-5 "An invitation to the colorful, dynamic world of the Nabis, a circle of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists whose members, including Bonnard and Vuillard, celebrated both everyday life and the decorative arts.Inspired by Paul Gauguin in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Nabis saw themselves as prophets of a new art. This vibrant illustrated book showcases rarely seen paintings, prints, and decorative arts by the visionary ..." |
 | | Jacob Lawrence The American Struggle by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, Andrea Douglas, Kevin Jennings, Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre, Rachel Allen, Elgin Cleckley, Bethany Collins, Spencer Crew, Philip J. Deloria, Leslie King Hammond, David C. Driskell, Barbara Earl Thomas, Walter O. Evans, Kimberli Gant, Elyse Gerstenecker, Erin C. Golightly, Lydia Gordon, Kerri Greenidge, Randall Griffey, Patricia Hills, Hank Willis Thomas, Erich Kessel, Steve Locke, Deborah Mcdowell, Masud Olufani, Harvey Ross, Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Elsa Smithgall, Salamishah Tillet, Monique Verdin, Chloe Downe Wells, Tamir Williams, Sylvia Yount, Jacob Lawrence Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87577-237-0, ISBN: 0-87577-237-4 "This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..." |
 | | Pierre Bonnard Early and Late by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Nancy Wolsk, Pierre Bonnard, Phillips Collection, Denver Art Museum, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Elsa Smithgall, Nancy Coleman Wolks Paperback, 287 Pages, Published 2002 by Phillips Collections ISBN-13: 978-0-943044-29-3, ISBN: 0-943044-29-4 "This major presentation of the work of Pierre Bonnard follows a new line of enquiry reconciling what has previously been seen as two distinct early and creative periods: the Nabis or symbolist Bonnard and the later so-called Impressionist or colorist Bonnard. By uniting representative works from all periods of Bonnard’s life, this book chart’s the artist’s singular pathway and illustrates his highly independent artistic vision. The 130 ..." |
 | | Bonnard's Worlds (Hardcover) by Elsa Smithgall, Isabelle Cahn, Cyrille Sciama, Veronique Serrano Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2023 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-27327-4, ISBN: 0-300-27327-4 "Delving into the sensory realms of experience that fueled Bonnard's practice--from the most public to the most private--this volume looks at the inspiration behind the artist's work." |
 | | Whitfield Lovell(1st Edition) Kin by Irving Sandler, Klaus Ottmann, Sarah E. Lewis, Elsa Smithgall, Julie L. Mcgee, Kevin Quashie, Skira Rizzoli Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Skira Rizzoli ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-5824-8, ISBN: 0-8478-5824-3 "Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this book provides a comprehensive look at this MacArthur Fellows award winning artist s ongoing exploration of the African-American experience. Whitfield Lovell: Kin centers on a sumptuously reproduced portfolio of the artist s Kin series, in which images of anonymous African-Americans are paired with found objects evoking their personalities and experiences. Tangible presences that powerfully ..." |
 | | Georgia O'Keeffe The Poetry of Things by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Elsa Mezvinsky-Smithgall, Georgia About .O'keeffe Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 1999 by Phillips Collections ISBN-13: 978-0-943044-24-8, ISBN: 0-943044-24-3 |
 | | Jacob Lawrence(Illustrated) The American Struggle by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, Andrea Douglas, Kevin Jennings, Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre, Rachel Allen, Elgin Cleckley, Bethany Collins, Spencer Crew, Philip J. Deloria, Leslie King Hammond, David C. Driskell, Barbara Earl Thomas, Walter O. Evans, Kimberli Gant, Elyse Gerstenecker, Erin C. Golightly, Lydia Gordon, Kerri Greenidge, Randall Griffey, Patricia Hills, Hank Willis Thomas, Erich Kessel, Steve Locke, Deborah Mcdowell, Masud Olufani, Harvey Ross, Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Elsa Smithgall, Salamishah Tillet, Monique Verdin, Chloe Downe Wells, Tamir Williams, Sylvia Yount, Jacob Lawrence Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74704-0, ISBN: 0-295-74704-8 "This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..." |
 | | Seeing Differently The Phillips Collects for a New Century by David C. Driskell, Mary Jane Jacob, Dorothy Kosinski 360 Pages, Published 2021 by Giles ISBN-13: 978-1-911282-76-1, ISBN: 1-911282-76-X |
 | | Ten Americans After Paul Klee by Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Elsa Smithgall 239 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-6774-3, ISBN: 3-7913-6774-9 "Critics have traditionally confined Paul Klee's contribution to American art as one of "spirit," and limited to the works of the New York School and other Abstract Expressionist painters." |
 | | Ten Americans(1st Edition) After Paul Klee by Zentrum Paul Klee, The Phillips Collection, Elsa Smithgall, Kai-Inga Dost, Fabienne Eggelhofer, Elke Seibert, Katy Siegel Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5665-5, ISBN: 3-7913-5665-8 "Paul Klee's influence on a wide range of American artists is explored in-depth in this stunning book. Critics have traditionally confined Paul Klee's contribution to American art as one of -spirit, - and limited to the works of the New York School and other Abstract Expressionist painters. In fact, Klee's influence on American art is more expansive, as illustrated in this study of ten artists who, through their use of automatic drawing, ..." |
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