Jessica May

Christine Podmaniczky

Doug Dowd

N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wyeth and grandfather of Jamie, he was also an artist with a broad purview whose work includes impressionist views of the Pennsylvania countryside and 1930s modernist interpretations of Maine coastal scenes. The book's essays look at topics such as Wyeth's contributions to the visual mythology of the American West, the darker nuances found in his Treasure Island illustrations, and correlations between his illustrations and cinema. Also explored is the way in which Wyeth's own Chadds Ford properties reflect his conception of home and the role of the artist in American society. Complete with a detailed chronology, this carefully researched study of Wyeth's life and work provides a long overdue assessment of the remarkable breadth of this complex yet often misunderstood artist.00Exhibition: Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA (22.06-15.09.2019); Portland Museum of Art, ME0(01.10.2019-12.01.2020); Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati OH(08.02-03.05.2020).

New Perspectives

N. C. Wyeth

Donald Albrecht

Peter Plagens

Andrew Loog Oldham

The first book to explore the extraordinary musical life and remarkable paintings of one of America's greatest ever songwriters. Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture--from 'Big Girls Don't Cry' for the Four Seasons to 'Silence is Golden' for the Tremeloes and 'Lady Marmalade' for LaBelle--Bob Crewe was a multifaceted artist for whom a passion for painting and the visual arts provided a lifelong counterbalance to music. Collected here are more than 80 of Bob Crewe's artworks, stretching from his first forays into abstract expressionism in the 1950s and 1960s to more complex, tactile compositions made on his full-time return to painting in the 1990s--accompanied by archival images and ephemera that reflect Crewe's simultaneous contribution to popular music. Essays by Jessica May and Peter Plagens explore the development of an artist whose influences ranged from Rauschenberg and Johns to Warhol and Bacon; legendary record producer Andrew Loog Oldham captures the period of radical experimentalism in which Crewe wrote many of the most memorable songs in the canon of modern pop; and Donald Albrecht's introduction ties together the many complementary aspects of Crewe's personal and creative lives.

Sight and Sound: Compositions in Art and Music

Bob Crewe

A moving and sophisticated investigation into the nature of vision. American artist Clifford Ross's photographic and video practices over the past thirty years reveal one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations into the nature of vision in the medium's history. Clifford Ross: Sightlines showcases the range and depth of Ross's art by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experience he has created with just two primary subjects: mountain and sea. In our era of unprecedented environmental peril, his inventive exploration of these iconic subjects conveys a powerful creative engagement with landscapes that are both majestic and fragile.

Sightlines

Clifford Ross

Alexander Nemerov

David M. Lubin

"A major survey of one of the world’s preeminent multimedia artists, Clifford Ross. American artist Clifford Ross is steeped in the traditions of modernism across a range of media, but his photographic and video practices over the past 30 years reveal one of the most incisive and technically sophisticated investigations into the nature of vision in the medium’s history. His art is characterized by relentless inventiveness and iteration; Ross explores the expressive possibilities of his subjects through newly created media, working at a variety of different scales. Viewers of his work might find themselves immersed in waves from a hurricane, printed with incredible resolution on 12-foot-tall panels of maple-veneered plywood or depicted as digital pixels crashing across enormous LED screens. Sightlines, the first major exhibition of Ross’ work in Maine, explores this relentless exploration of the natural world, prompting audiences to engage with the vitality and wonder of nature itself in an era of global climate change, as well as to reconsider the condition of the photograph. It showcases the range and depth of his photographs by presenting the inexhaustible variety of visual experiences he has created within his two primary subjects—a single mountain in Colorado, and hurricane-generated waves breaking along the coast of Long Island—demonstrating his capacity to convey creative energy through sustained looking at this limited number of subjects, and even through a limited number of source images. Ross uses his defined set of motifs to generate a large series of artwork across multiple media, each with a different and distinct character. Indeed, he has pushed the technical limitations of his chosen media to fundamentally new places, including through the invention of new technologies to achieve his vision, as with the case of his R1 camera. The exhibition promises to buoy viewers’ wonder at the experience of art and nature, helping them to reconnect with the instinct to want to “see more,” or “see more deeply”."--

Patterson Sims

Helen Ferrulli

A rich compendium of Estes' virtuosic photorealist paintings, which capture light and reflections in brilliant detail

Jessica May

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