The definitive biography of Daniel Chester French, the artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts. Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments. Harold Holzer's authoritative biography combines rich personal details ......
Elsa Beskow is one of Sweden's best-known authors and illustrators. Her picture books have been loved for more than a century. This month-to-view calendar is beautifully illustrated with Elsa Beskow's characteristic seasonal artwork, which features joyful children and magical little folk. The main UK, US and Swedish public holidays are marked. ......
As part of the series showcasing prominent figures of Hungarian art Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest is organizing a large-scale retrospective exhibition of one of the most important Hungarian painters of the twentieth century, Margit ANNA (1913 1991), a distinguished member of the art group Europai Iskola (European School).
John O'Connor (1913-2004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds.With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.
Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Pres area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sebastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Louise Moillon reassesses the importance of this painter of still-life (and occasional genre) ......
Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life - was a lodestar for many potters in the West. Beyond East and West, first published in 1978, is more ......
Siri Beckman has been creating wood engravings and woodcuts for more than forty years. Featuring more than 100 of her images, this volume is a celebration of her life's work and legacy.
Iconic architect Addison Mizner's unfiltered first-person account of Palm Beach's formative years from 1918 until 1924, entitled Addison Mizner:A Palm Beach Memoir, is an upcoming publication by the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. Focused on the period when Mizner and sewing-machine heir Paris Singer were instrumental in shaping Palm ......