Once you've read the 90,000 - word essay in volume one by Yve - Alain Bois, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton who has published a number of illuminating texts on Matisse, as well as the insightful commentaries on all the paintings by independent art historians Claudine Grammont and Karen K. Butler in volumes two and three, you may never see the former Fauve's art the same way again. (artnews.com)
The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue features an essay titled «The Forms of Nature's Fractions: Charles Seliger (1926 - 2009) and His Natural World,» by renowned independent art historian and critic, Francis V. O'Connor, who has written extensively on abstract expressionism and on the New Deal art projects of the 1930s. (michaelrosenfeldart.com)
Organized by independent art historian Richard D. Marshall, the gorgeous selection of 13 paintings begins with «Row Row» (1982), «La Grande Vallee XVI Pour Iva» (1983) and «Then, Last Time IV» (1985). (latimesblogs.latimes.com)