Contemporary American realist drawings : the Jalane and Richard Davidson collection at the Art Institute of Chicago / by Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernández-Durán, and Mark Pascale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Ruth, 1941-

Contributor:

Hernández-Durán, Raymond.

Pascale, Mark, 1954-

Art Institute of Chicago.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davidson, Jalane, 1942-1996--Art collections--Exhibitions.

Davidson, Jalane.

Davidson, Richard, 1941---Art collections--Exhibitions.

Davidson, Richard.

Davidson, Richard, 1941-.

Davidson, Jalane, 1942-1996.

Drawing, American--Exhibitions.

Drawing, American.

Drawing--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.

Drawing.

Drawing--Private collections.

Realism in art.

Art museums.

United States.

Realism in art--United States--Exhibitions.

Drawing--Private collections--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

viii, 136 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : The Art Institute ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Hudson Hills Press, [1999]

Summary:

The Davidsons assembled an extraordinary collection of American drawings dating from 1960 to the present, showcasing the continuing currency of realism and humanism. Featuring such artists as William Bailey, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Rackstraw Downes, Janet Fish, Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie, Michael Mazur, Alice Neel, and Philip Pearlstein, the collection has been given to the Art Institute of Chicago, which is exhibiting 125 of its finest examples. This beautiful volume includes biographies of the artists and an important critical essay by Ruth E. Fine.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 6, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-24) and index.

ISBN:

0865591806

OCLC:

43066052