American 20th-21st Century Portraits and
Figurative Art
- Robert January, Caves - Curveballs
- Canvas; essay by Philip Eliasoph (11/7/09)
- Will Barnet: Works of Seven Decades
(5/5/09)
- An Innermost Journey: The Art
of Shauna Cook Clinger (12/26/08)
- The Pursuit of Form; essay by
Peter Campion (11/6/08)
- David Park's Works on Paper; essay
by Lance Esplund (11/6/08)
- Ann Gale's Interstitial Portraits;
essay by Mark Van Proyen (11/6/08)
- Andrew Stevovich: The Truth about
Lola; essay by Bartholomew F. Bland (10/10/08)
- Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf;
essay by Jay Williams (6/19/08)
- The Figure Revealed: Contemporary
American Figurative Paintings and Drawings (5/29/08)
- D.J. Hall Thirty-Five Year Retrospective
(5/28/08)
- Portraits of Women: Re-seeing the
Collection (4/25/08)
- In the Face of Change; essay by
Jennifer Bailey Forbes (2/8/08)
- Ann Gale (11/6/07)
- Portrait, Identity, Culture: Across
Time, Space and Meaning (10/22/07)
- Signs of Intelligent Life; essay
by Claudia Schmuckli (9/17/07)
- Lincoln Perry: Paintings; text
by Michael Culver (8/4/07)
- Personal Jesus: The Religious
Works of Keith Haring and Andy Warhol (5/30/07)
- Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend
(3/27/07)
- The Artist Revealed: Artist Portraits
and Self-Portraits (2/21/07)
- Cecily Brown (11/28/06)
- Urban Isolation: Figurative Paintings
by York Chang and Yu Ji (11/3/06)
- James Michaels: Passion for Paint,
essay by Todd Behrens (10/20/06)
- Alex Katz Paints Ada (10/4/06)
- Portraits of Dancer Rudolf Nureyev
by Artist James Wyeth Acquired by Brandywine River Museum (10/02/06)
- Slow Painting: A Deliberate Renaissance,
with essays entitled "Realism: The Path to Beauty" by James F.
Cooper, "A New Direction in Art Education - The New Academies, Andy
Warhol and a New Aesthetic Movement" by Dr. Gregory Hedberg, and Distinguishing
the Essential From the Accidental" by D. Jeffrey Mims (9/28/06)
- Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth and
Basquiat (7/31/06)
- Posed at Midcentury: Master Drawings
by Bay Area Figuratives (7/31/06)
- Weird and Wonderful: Graphics
by Leonard Baskin (6/29/06)
- Julie Heffernan: Everything That
Rises (4/20/06)
- Edward Hopper: An Artist in Pursuit
of Desire; essay by Matt Backer (3/24/06)
- "Black Spirit": Works
on Paper by Eldzier Cortor; essay by Matt Backer (3/22/06)
- Robert Henri: La Reina Mora;
essay by Michael Andrew Marlais (2/20/06)
- Gladys Nilsson: Recent Works (2/1/06)
- Project Series: Clare E. Rojas
/ Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University; essay by Katie Geha
(1/31/06)
- Lee Baxter Davis (1/31/06)
- Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005
(11/21/05)
- Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
(11/21/05)
- Bruce Erikson: Unravel (11/21/05)
- MOCA Focus: Jennifer Bornstein
(11/21/05)
- Joyce Treiman: Paintings, Drawings
and Prints (10/25/05)
- Hawaiian Idyll: The Prints of John
Kelly (9/20/05)
- The Portraits of Robert Henri:
Context and Influences; article by Valerie Ann Leeds (8/2/05)
- Chuck Close Prints; essay by Terrie
Sultan (6/13/05)
- Bert Carpenter: Persistence of
Realism; essay by Sam Yates (5/9/05)
- Mirror Mirror: Portraits, Profiles,
and Portrayals (4/29/05)
- Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
(4/20/05)
- Susan Ricker Knox (1874 - 1959);
essay by Deborah M. Child and Jane D. Kaufmann (4/19/05)
- Chuck Close Prints: Process and
Collaboration (4/14/05)
- Nelson Shanks: Paintings and Drawings;
essay by Peter F. Blume (3/30/05)
- American Women: A Selection from
the National Portrait Gallery (1/28/05)
- Gerald L. Brockhurst (1890-1978),
A Retrospective from the William P. Brumfield Memorial Collection;
essay by Abe M. Tahir Jr. (1/22/05)
- Samuel L. Schmucker: The Golden
Age of Postcards (12/22/04)
- Joseph Stella: Madonnas &
Related Work; essay by Irma B. Jaffe (12/14/04)
- The Elegant Line: Early Prints
by Richard Diebenkorn (10/25/04)
- Guy Pène du Bois: The Twenties
at Home and Abroad (8/27/04)
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made
in America (8/24/04)
- The W.P.A. Era: Art Across America
(8/17/04)
- Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
(8/17/04)
- Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
(8/13/04)
- Hal Frater: A Retrospective (7/1/04)
- Heartland: Paintings by Bo Bartlett,
1978-2002 (6/15/04)
- Jack Smith: Taos Portraits (6/11/04)
- Eric Bransby: Draftsman and Muralist;
essay by William Underwood Eiland (4/28/04)
- American Portraiture: The Figurative
Works of Wayman Adams (3/18/04)
- Fair Dreams: The Art of Gerald
Leslie Brockhurst (4/9/04)
- Evolving Identities: Figurative
Work from the 19th Century to Now (2/4/04)
- Contemporary Figurative Painting
(2/4/04)
- Chuck Close: Prints and Process;
essay by June Lambla (2/2/04)
- The Italians -- From South Philadelphia
to Jersey City (1/29/04)
- Chuck Close: Prints and Process
(1/29/04)
- Alison Van Pelt: The Women (1/12/04)
- Drawn to Perfection: Jean and
Paul Ulen and the Slade School Legacy in Cleveland; essay by Christopher
Bedford and Marianne Berardi (1/7/04)
- Chuck Close Prints: Process and
Collaboration (1/2/04)
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[Click here for more on Amazon.com's
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Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones (search inside);
Celebrity Caricature in America by Wendy Wick Reaves
From American Society of Portrait Artists
see The
National Academy: A Legacy of Fine Arts, by Jennifer Hebblethwaite and
Art and Law:
Derivative Works And Copyright · Painting from Another's Photograph;
by Mary Ann Fergus
From National Portrait Gallery (US)
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