Art&DesignWinter2024

Sacking Aladdin’s Cave: Plundering Göring’s Nazi War Trophies Kenneth D. Alford, with Thom- as M. Johnson and Mike F. Morris. Details the magnitude of the looting of art treasures by Hermann Göring and what happened to them after they were recovered by Allied forces. The most valuable made their way to America, including items now valued in the millions of dollars. Highlights the efforts to repatriate these works with their rightful owners. • 81/2"x11" (215x279mm) • over 180 photos • 136 pp. • 978-0-7643-4396-4 •HC• $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Texas Wild Flowers Eliza Griffin Johnston. Water- color paintings capture the beauty of Texas wild flow- ers as painted by Eliza Griffin Johnston in the late 1840s and 1850s. She bound them into a book as a birthday gift to her husband, Gen. Albert Johnston, who was later killed during the Civil War. The William Barret Travis Chapter, The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, want to share the beauty of these images to reflect a time long gone • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • facsimile color prints •248pp. •978-0-7643-3863-2•HC•$50.00 / £45.99 / $73.00 CAD Today’s Botanical Artists Cora Marcus and Libby Kyer. The work of 65 top botanical artists from America. Gorgeous flowers, leaves, plants, roots, and vegetables have been beautifully drawn and painted and are displayed here. Today’s gardeners, nature lovers, graphic designers, collectors, and decorators will find much to absorb and enjoy. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 220 color illustrations • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2905-0 • HC • $40.00 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD The Watch at Peaked Hill: Outer Cape Cod Dune Shack Life, 1953–2003 Josephine Breen Del Deo. Fifty years of living in dune shacks at the tip of Cape Cod, describing the idyllic life, but also the struggle to maintain that life. The history is brought to life, populated with the interesting, often eccentric characters who lived on the dunes • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 97 color & b/w im- ages•224pp. •978-0-7643-4978-2•HC•$34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Emerging from the Shadows, Vol I: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860- 1960 Maurine St. Gaudens. This is volume I: A–D, of a four-volume set, that explores the role of 320 wom- en artists, many previously unrecorded in the annals of art history in California. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 500-plus color images • 336 pp. • 978-0-7643-4861-7 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Emerging from the Shadows, Vol II Maurine St. Gaudens. Emerging from the Shadows, Vol. II: A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860–1960. This is volume II: E–K, of a four-volume set, that explores the role of 320 women artists, many previously unre- corded in the annals of art history in California. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 500-plus color images • 352 pp. • 978-0-7643-4862-4•HC•$59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00CAD Emerging from the Shadows, Vol III Maurine St. Gaudens. This is volume III: L–R, of a four-volume set, that explores the role of 320 women artists, many previously unrecorded in the annals of art history in California. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 500-plus color images • 320 pp. • 978-0-7643-4886-0 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Emerging from the Shadows, Vol IV Maurine St. Gaudens. This is volume IV: S–Z, of a four-volume set, that explores the role of 320 women artists, many previously unrecorded in the annals of art history in California. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 500-plus color images • 336 pp. • 978-0-7643-4887-7 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD All Aboard: The Life and Work of Marjorie Reed Gary Fillmore. The first comprehensive account of the unusual life and fine paintings of Marjorie Reed. Beau- tifully illustrated with over 300 color plates of her paintings and scores of never-before-published per- sonal photographs, this tracks her beginnings as a 16-year-old commercial artist in LA until the last paint- ing on her easel at the time of her death six decades later • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 604 color & b/w illustra- tion•256pp. •978-0-7643-3111-4•HC•$79.99 / £72.99 / $120.00 CAD Figurative Paintings: Paris & The Modern Spir- it Martin Wolpert and Jeffrey Winter. The work of 204 newly discovered regional Modernist painters, especially some from Belgium, with carefully researched biographical information about each. Over 350 color photographs display their dynamic works. These paintings helped spread the Parisian influence through- out the world, and are often showcased in galleries today. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 352 color photos • 288 pp. • 978-0-7643-2462-8 • HC • $69.95 / £63.99 / $105.00 CAD Folk Art Murals of the Rufus Porter School: New England Landscapes: 1825-1845 Linda Carter Lefko & Jane E. Radcliffe. The book takes readers on a virtual tour of Porter School murals in the New England states, from the 1820s–1840s. 400+ images provide inspiration for historians, researchers, designers, and painters. It offers evidence regarding the attribution of these mostly unsigned works, and encourages readers to apply that evidence in reaching their own conclusions. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 412 color photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-3725-3 • HC • $59.99 / £54.99 / $85.00 CAD Frozen Lives: Karl and Anna Kuerner, Andrew Wyeth’s Iconic Couple LuLynne Streeter. Reflecting unprecedented access to the Kuerner family and their archives, this compellingly readable book reveals the complicated ways that the Kuerners impacted Wyeth. A hardened German soldier, a fragile mother teetering toward madness, small children adrift in hardship, and a lonely young artist—AndrewWyeth—come together on a farm in eastern Pennsylvania • 5 1/2"x 8 1/2" (139 x 215 mm) • 27 color &b/w images •144 pp. •978-0-7643-5415-1•HC• $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD The Graphic Flower: Ray Flowers and Roses in American Art and Culture Michael B. Emery and Irwin Richman. A celebration of America’s favorite floral icons, the homey ray flower (includes daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias, coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans) and the elegant, multifaceted rose, and their places in art and culture • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 528 color & b/w images • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-5726-8 • Spiral • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD The Graphic Vegetable: Food and Art from Amer- ica’s Soil Michael B. Emery and Irwin Richman. These 580 juicy images capture the fact that throughout history, artists and artisans have depicted vegetables in remarkable ways. This volume includes prints, paint- ings by American masters, photographs, antique post- cards, seed packets, and more, as well as interesting botanical and historical information. It beautifully covers a timely topic: our food and its sources • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 587 color &b/w images • 232 pp. • 978-0-7643-5187-7 • PB • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Manhattan’s Hotel des Artistes: America’s Par- is on West 67th Street Robert Hudovernik. More than 600 archival color and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan’s West Side. This is the well-researched, untold story of the artists, returning from stints in Paris in the early 1900s, who convinced Manhattan businessmen to invest in an arts colony on West 67th Street. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 632 color and b/w images • 288 pp. • 978-0-7643-6044-2 • HC • $65.00 / £59.99 / $95.00 CAD Rogue Art History: The Trivia Game Sartle. A fun and easy-to-set-up game for ages 14 and up, where players answer trivia questions about art history and collect artwork along the way. Be the first to collect five artworks and prove, offi- cially, that you know your stuff. Along the way, players can also use "Rogue Scholar" Cards to help them answer questions, protect their artwork from getting stolen, and sabotage other players. For 4 to 6 players. • 5 7/8" x 3 1/8" x 2 3/4" (79 x 149 mm) • Box contains 300 Trivia Cards, 40 Artwork Cards, 36 Rogue Scholar Cards, and instruction sheet • 0 pp. • 978-0-7643-6178-4 • Box set • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Rogue Art History, National Portrait Gal- lery Edition: The Trivia Game Sartle. A fun and easy-to-set-up game for ages 14 and up, where players answer trivia questions about art history and collect artwork from the National Portrait Gallery along the way. Be the first to collect five artworks and prove, officially, that you know your stuff. For 4 to 6 players. • 5 7/8" x 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" (44 x 149 mm) • Box contains 96 Trivia Cards, 25 Artwork Cards, 36 Rogue Scholar Cards, and instruction sheet • 0 pp. • 978-0-7643-6179-1 • Box set • $18.99 / £17.99 / $25.99 CAD Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony Deborah Forman. Provincetown is a community of artists who played vital roles in American art movements. Deborah Forman traces the history of these artists from 1899, when Charles Hawthorne opened his Cape Cod School of Art, through struggles among the tradition- alists, impressionists, and modernists. Vol. 1 1899– Mid-Century. Vol. 2 Mid-Century–2010 • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 325+ color and b/w images • each volume, 224pp. •978-0-7643-3682-9•Box set •$125.00 / £113.99 / $188.00 CAD The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott Marjorie G. Jones. The watercolors of Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860–1940) comprise a significant catalog of North American wildflowers. Catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage, her story affords insights into the transformative times in which she lived. • 6"x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 22 color & b/w images • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643- 4972-0 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Modern Figurative Paintings: 1890-1950 The Paris Connection Martin Wolpert & Jeffrey Winter. This book presents biographies and 375 paintings by more than 150 artists who descended on Paris between 1890 and 1950. They painted the populace in bars, jazz clubs, and cabarets, portraits, nudes, and scenes of their studios. The book offers insight into their paintings, which can still be acquired at equitable prices. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 375 color photos • 288 pp. • 978- 0-7643-1962-4 • HC • $69.95 / £63.99 / $105.00 CAD Postmarked Picasso: His Paintings on Stamps Donald D. Spencer.. Picasso, a prolific and revolution- ary artist, gained global fame for his iconic creations. His art resides in museums worldwide, with his postage stamp depictions becoming cherished miniatures. Explore a fresh perspective on this larger-than-life art figure, loved by readers for his enduring impact on 20th-cen- tury art.• 7 1/4" x 9 1/4" (184 x 234 mm) • 110 full-color images • 116 pp. • 978-0-7643-6584-3 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD HISTORICAL PAINTING & PAINTERS ART HISTORY • HISTORICAL PAINTING & PAINTERS | 61