This detailed study of a single phase of Matisse's career, focuses on his work "The Dance". In 1930 he was commissioned to create a mural for the main gallery of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. In this book, Jack Flam pieces together the story behind its several versions.

Matisse: The Dance

Jack Flam

Arts & Photography

Harry N. Abrams

Briefly traces the history of Tyler Graphics, shows examples of prints made by the firm, and discusses the techniques of print making and paper making

Tyler Graphics: The Extended Image

Elizabeth Armstrong

Judith Goldman

E. C. Goossen

Robert M. Murdock

Richard H. Axsom

Leonard B. Schlosser

Ruth E. Fine

Walker Arts Center

Graphic Design

Abbeville Press

John Walker: Time and tides [Exhibition Catalogue, Knoedler & Co., January 18-March 3, 2001]

Meridian for Knoedler & Co.

More than one hundred color plates, accompanied by reactions and comments from critics and contemporaries, record the career of the French sculptor, cut-out artist, and painter of exotic, brightly colored nudes.

Matisse: A Retrospective

Bay books

A lavishly illustrated exploration of the textile works of Henri Matisse, published to coincide with a major international exhibition, considers the artist's relationship with textiles throughout his career, documenting how the art form and its materials significantly impacted many of his key works.

Matisse, His Art and His Textiles

Ann Dumas

Remi Labrusse

Individual Artists

Royal Academy Books

Product DescriptionHenri Matisse's ancestors had been weavers for generations: textiles, a key to his visual imagination, were in his blood. Although he was to outgrow every other influence, textiles retained their power for him throughout his life. His studio in Nice was a treasure house of exotic Persian carpets, delicate Arab embroideries, richly hued African wall hangings, and any number of colorful cushions, curtains, costumes, patterned screens, and backcloths.This sumptuously illustrated book, which accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores for the first time Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days. Charting how the fabrics he painted became the very fabric of his painting, the authors examine the ways in which one of the greatest pioneers in modern art history used what he called his "working library" of textiles to furnish, order, and compose his extraordinary works of art. AUTHOR BIO: Ann Dumas is an independent exhibition curator. Jack Flam is professor of art and art history at Brooklyn College and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Rémi Labrusse is professor of contemporary art history at the Université de Picardie, Amiens. Hilary Spurling is working on the second volume of a biography of Matisse. Dominique Szymusiak is director of the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis.

Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams (an exhibition catalogue)

Hilary Spurling

Kathleen Brunner

Dominique Szymusiak

History & Criticism

Royal Academy of Arts

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