With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms--from a seashell to his own printing press--Paul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a high art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's ceaseless stylistic innovation placed his work in dialogue with California contemporaries like Edward Weston and Henrietta Shore; he was, in fact, central to an artistic milieu that has been described as a "small Renaissance, Southern California style." It is fitting, too, that the velvety blacks and dazzling whites of Landacre's prints can recall the images of the silver screen--for the artist's rustic bungalow on a Los Angeles hill was but a stone's throw from Hollywood, and his early patrons and supporters included such luminaries as the director Delmer Daves and the actress Kay Francis. This handsome two-volume set, illustrated with generously sized, high-quality reproductions, offers a definitive catalogue not only of Landacre's individual wood engravings but also of his early linocuts, his celebrated book illustrations, and his experimental works in other media, including painting, drawing, and lithography. Yet this is much more than a catalogue raisonné--the fruit of more than thirty years of research, it brings to life the bohemian world in which the artist lived, and the rich cultural and artistic context of his work. Landacre's prints are already prized by curators and collectors; this landmark publication will give him his rightful place in the firmament of American art.

Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonné

Arts & Photography

Wien, Jake Milgram

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

This publication accompanied an exhibition that traveled from the Montclair Art Museum (where it opened in February 1995), to the Farnsworth Art Museum, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, the Art Museum of the State of New York at Plattsburgh, and Bryn Mawr College (where it closed in May 1996). Assembled by the author (and exhibition curator) are the original drawings and lithographs Bernarda Bryson Shahn prepared for a project inspired in 1935 by the Resettlement Administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Bryson Shahn envisioned a revisionist social and political history of the United States that included images of the Atlantic slave trade, ecological destruction of the hinterlands during the Dust Bowl, the labors of miners and farmers, and a collective portrait of the "Empire Builders" who rose to command the national economic power structure.Bryson Shahn's original artistic style is discussed as is the influence on this project of the photographic work of Ben Shahn, her colleague and partner. The couple drove together through the south and midwest when Ben Shahn was among the noted photographers commissioned by the Resettlement Administration to provide a record of the faces and the human costs of a nation in travail - of people who might benefit from the relief programs.The publication concludes with a bibliography and a biographical sketch of Bryson Shahn which is accompanied by a photograph of her at age 81. Limited to 1750 copies, the publication was expertly printed by The Stinehour Press in Vermont and designed by Jerry Kelly.

The Vanishing American Frontier

Bryson, Bernarda

Graphic Design

Univ of Washington Pr

Among the first generation of American modernist painters, Rockwell Kent rose to fame between the world wars as a visual poet of the natural world. This impressive volume includes a wide range of works from the Pushkin and Hermitage Museums in Russia, and illustrations for such literary classics as Canterbury Tales and Moby Dick. It also offers insights into the spiritual and intellectual influencesguiding Kent, and exposes his identity as a Jazz Age humourist Hogarth Jr. whose ink drawings captivated readers of Harper's Weekly and Vanity Fair. A list of solo exhibitions and a detailed chronology complete the publication.

Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and The Modern

Hudson Hills

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