Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

[Pat Steir] Susan Harris, Jan Howard (texts)

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

This richly illustrated book focuses on the life and work of British photographer Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943). Initially a bookseller in London, Evans began pursuing photography in the 1880s. His platinum prints of medieval cathedrals in England and France are among the most renowned architectural images in photographic history. He explored these stone monuments with a particular interest in spirituality and symbolism. Evans was a member of the Linked Ring, an association of photographers formed in England in 1892 to promote photography as a fine art.
Despite Evans’s important contribution to the field of photography, this is the first significant publication of his work since 1992.

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Providence. 1985. Rhode Island School of desing. 26x22. 110p.

Americana from the Daphne Farago collection

Sanderson, Carol C

Book by Christopher P Monkhouse, Thomas S. Michie, John M. Carpenter

American furniture in Pendleton House

Christopher P Monkhouse

Thomas S. Michie

John M. Carpenter

Whistler to Weidenaar: American prints, 1870-1950 : gifts from the Fazzano brothers and other donors

Johnson, Deborah J.

Through the collector's eye: Oriental rugs from New England private collections

Hopkins, Mark

Bailey, Julia

Patterns and Poetry: No Robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, is a beautiful and informative publication on the RISD Museum's collection of costumes for the Japanese No theater. This collection, arguably the finest in the United States, was assembled largely on the spot in Japan during the 1920's by Rhode Islander Lucy Truman Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The 47 robes came to the Museum by gift and bequest from Miss Aldrich herself and represent all catagories of No costume. Four essays document the history of the collection, including Miss Aldrich's encounter with Chinese bandits; poetic allusion in the imagery of the robes; the traditional methods of making No robes; and the evolution of No costume over 650 years. Individual entries with color illustrations discuss each of the 47 objects.

Patterns and poetry: Nō robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School Of Design

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Ties that bind: Fiber art by Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal from the Daphne Farago collection

Smith, Paul J.

Pressing On: The Graphic Art of Wilmer Jennings is the first publication to examine a large body of work of Wilmer Jennings (American, 1910-90), who studied under Hale Woodruff while earning a degree from Morehouse College, Atlanta.  Jennings then came to Rhode Island School of Design for further training as a jewelry designer, painter, and printmaker.  He stayed in Rhode Island and designed jewelry for Imperial Pearl Company while continuing to work on his art.  Jennings achieved artistic recognition primarily for his intimate wood engravings. He represents the third generation of African American artists active in the state.

Pressing On: The Graphic Work of Wilmer Jennings

Elliot, Claude

Masterfully conceived and crafted, the eleven pairs of objects designed by Jonathan Bonner to fit into an individual's trouser pockets are also completely preposterous in their functionality. Graphite and glass pocket balls pop out awkwardly from the leg, circular pocket magnets provide a novel way of carrying scissors, wrenches, and screwdrivers. Ice pocket mounds melt, pointy pocket weasels create holes, and pocket air bags bulge. In deadpan images that mock product photography and industrial publications, Bonner plays mischievously with the relationship of function to design, advertising to reality, sobriety of approach to hilarity of conception, proving himself much more interested in the long-standing relationship of hands to pockets and genitals than in the idea of usefulness.

Jonathan Bonner: Front Pockets

TANNENBAUM, Judith

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