Vija Celmins

This is a soft cover exhibition catalogue for Vija Celmins for a traveling exhibit which began at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th St. Philadelphia, PA (NOV 6, 1992-JAN 17, 1993). It includes black and white and color photographs of the works exhibited, Celmins Exhibition History and a Bibliography. Vija Celmins (1938) is an acclaimed Latvian-American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her works are held in the collections of over twenty public museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, High Museum of Art, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Menil Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.