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OUT OF STOCK Carolyn Brady Carolyn Brady is an expert watercolorist with a diamond-bright technique. The artist's brilliance in conveying the tactile surfaces of floral still-lifes comes from a mastery of skill amd innovation. PAINTING PB, 29 pp., illus. 1987 code: fam bra L-9

OUT OF STOCK Lee Winslow Court Lee Winslow Court remained true to his vision and source of inspiration: nature was his intimate friend and mentor. Whether painting the Artic, Ireland, the Canadian Rockies, or his beloved New England in all its moods and seasons, Court is part of the strong American tradition of landscape painting. PAINTING PB., 53 pp., illus. 1983 code: fam cou L-9

OUT OF STOCK Carl Gordon Cutler The key element of Cutler's modernist vision and style is a spontaneous watercolor-based approach, in which pure colors are washed across the picture plane in broad brushstrokes that articulate the intense colors of nature and the brilliance of sunlight. PAINTING PB, 24 pp., illus. 1998 code: fam cut L-9

OUT OF STOCK Lois Dodd Dodd's work is marked by formal, Modernist concerns, which favor scenes that can be rendered parallel to the picture plane. The aura of arresting stillness in her paintings establishs an ambiguous mood that evokes the styles of both abstraction and realism. PAINTING PB, 24 pp., illus. 1996 code: fam dod L-9

OUT OF STOCK Edwin Gamble: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing Gamble reframes familiar forms in nature to offer new formal and emotional experiences in art. His condensed, polished style outlines birds in flight, the wind-blown beach ledges, and the complex contours of animals. PAINTING PB, 28 pp., illus. 1997 code: fam gam L-9

OUT OF STOCK Goodly Ships on Painted Seas William Stubbs, Percy Sanborn, and James Babbidge captured Maine's long and industrious maritime history in precise, stylized portraits of ships. During the height of sailing commerce in the 19th Century, these artists painted from close observation and first-hand experience at sea. PAINTING PB, 22 pp., b&w illus. 1988 code: fam go L-9

OUT OF STOCK Indiana's Indiana This self-curated exhibtion by one of the most prominent figures of Pop-Art is amazingin scope and provides an unparalled opportunity for Robert Indiana to share subjective insight into his prolific career. CONTEMPORARY ART PB, 23 pp., illus. 1982 code: fam ind L-9

OUT OF STOCK William Kienbusch The dynamic force of Kienbusch’s paintings is balanced by a sensuous use of color. The inspiration for his expressionistic landscapes developed from his intimate understanding of nature, which acknowledges harsh winds, sudden shifts of seasons, and the limited tolerance for the temporary creations of man. PAINTING PB, 79 pp., illus. 1996, ISBN 0-918749-05-0 code: fam kie L-9

OUT OF STOCK Nature into Abstraction Painter, teacher, and once head of the W.P.A. mural division, Michael Loew transforms landscapes into lushly painted, spatially articulated planes that are reminiscent of Mondrian and Malevich. The use of emotionally-charged, radiant light and color is balanced by meticulously controlled, formal compositions. PAINTING PB, 40 pp., illus. 1997, ISBN 0-918749-06-9 code: fam loe L-9

OUT OF STOCK McEntee & Company Jervis McKentee (1828-1891) was a Hudson River School painter caught between the older practices of American landscape tradition and the emerging concerns of what would later be termed "Modernism." Unlike his peers Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, McKentee's melancholic autumn scenes convey a sense of uncertainty and disruption that accompanied the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction. PAINTING PB, 39 pp., illus. 1997 code: fam mce L-9

OUT OF STOCK Men at Work The impressionistic paintings of Kristina Branch belong to a long and venerable tradition of the laborer in art. The appeal of her impressionistic images is grounded in our own fascination in observing other people as they build and create. PAINTING PB, 44 pp., illus. 2003, ISBN 0-918749-14-X code: fam men L-9

OUT OF STOCK Dennis Pinette: The Lucid Mark Dennis Pinette’s oil paintings hover between dream and reality. Using paint as a poet does words, Pinette transforms the pioneering spirit of American landscape painting into discoveries of our contemporary environment. PAINTING PB, 41 pp., illus. 2003 code: fam pin L-9

 

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