Art of Penobscot Bay

Glorious Penobscot Bay, on the coast of Maine, with its quaint mainland towns, bustling tourist centers, and island fishing villages, stands as the backdrop of daydreams. The bay’s sheer beauty has attracted generation after generation of artists to its shores. For Art of Penobscot Bay, brothers David and Carl Little, […]

Hokusai: A Life in Drawing by Henri-Alexis Baatsch

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) was the most prolific and diverse artist of Japan’s Edo period, with a body of work reputed to include more than 30,000 drawings, paintings and prints. This book traces the career of this child from a working-class district of old Tokyo, then known as Edo, evoking the […]

Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist’s lesser-known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time. Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe later wrote, “I have made this drawing several times—never remembering that I had made it before—and not knowing where the idea […]

Southern Fiction Photographs By Tema Stauffer

Southern Fiction Photographs By Tema Stauffer explores the history of the American South using its literary tradition as a road map by focusing on environments which have shaped the imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers during their formative years or throughout the course of their lives and careers. The images portray […]

DISCOVERING SAMUEL PALMER

“Reclusive, eccentric, largely neglected and a commercial failure during his lifetime, Samuel Palmer nevertheless left a rich artistic legacy that has endured long after his death in 1881. His intensely spiritual, visionary depictions of the English countryside exerted a telling influence well into the 20th century with artists such as […]

The Color Meditation Deck Book By Lisa Solomon

With 62 cards, The Color Meditation Deck offers over 500 potential combinations for endless color meditation opportunities. This deck gives you the mental space to concentrate on the act of creating itself instead of the anxiety that facing a blank page can give. It also adds a layer of surprise […]

Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America”, is a riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world—and Picasso the most famous artist alive—in the shadow of World War II. “In January 1939, Pablo Picasso […]