What’s Hot and Why? Pt. 1 (of 7)
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Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection $50.00 Modern Japanese painting executed in traditional media and formats, or nihonga, developed in post-Meiji Restoration Japan to distinguish traditional art from Western-style oil painting. “Modern Masters of Kyoto” presents more than 80 examples of nihonga from Kyoto – hanging scrolls, screens, and an album – dating from the 1860s to the 1940s. Focusing on two exceptionally original artists, Tsuji Ka… |
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The Ebsworth Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art (National Gallery of Art Publications) $49.50 A National Gallery of Art Publication This book, the companion volume to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Seattle Art Museum, showcases the extraordinary collection of modern American masterworks assembled by Barney A. Ebsworth, a St. Louis businessman. The collection includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexande… |
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What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century $12.95 What It Meant to Be Modern looks at the ways in which the work of artists in Seattle from 1932 to 1962 was intricately intertwined with the city and explores the diverse styles that arose from a complex and wide-ranging set of ideas about modern art. Well-known Northwest artists such as Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Leo Kenney, and Margaret Tomkins came to the fore in this period and influenced yo… |
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