John Ashbery

Lance Esplund

Martica Sawin

Louisa Matthiasdottir

Louisa Matthíasdóttir

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Immersion in the creative ferment of Reykjavik in the 1930s, when artists and writers were bringing modernist ideals to the land of the Sagas.

Nell Blaine

HUDSON HILLS PRESS

This volume presents the art and life of Nell Blaine, a member of the second generation of the New York School. Her work represents a dialogue between abstract principles and her sensory responses to the visible world. Her oils and watercolours of gardens, landscapes and flower still lifes display her commitment to the pleasure principle, her delight in vision, combined with a gift for improvisation and rhythm learned from the jazz greats of the 1940s.

Her Art and Life

Brian Rutenberg

Walter Darby Bannard

The landscape, complex in its layers, has guided abstract painter Brian Rutenberg's approach to composition and color for the entire development of his career. He draws on the landscape that he remembers from childhood, growing up between Pawleys Island and Charleston, South Carolina, where the rivers and lakes join the ocean. He adds to this a strong influence from the music of Glenn Gould and Celtic culture, as well as the painters Joan Mitchell and Hans Hofman. The resulting work elicits a profoundly visceral experience as he reinvents abstraction with a sense of spirituality. This volume is the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date; it includes more than 90 illustrations of his paintings and drawings.

Martica Sawin

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