Hayward Gallery

Richard J. Powell

David A. Bailey

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Institute of International Visual Arts

Explores the paintings, photographs, and performances significant to the Harlem Renaissance

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

Rhapsodies in Black

Catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Catalogue of the Paintings, Statuary, Casts, Bronzes, Etc. of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Kirk Varnedoe

Brooklyn Museum

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian Painting, 1880-1910

Northern Light

Louis XIV and the New World : an Exhibition

The Sun King

Sam Wagstaff

A Book of Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff

Gary Indiana

Nancy Chunn

Front Pages is an illustrated novel of the real world created by the painter Nancy Chunn. Every day of 1996 Chunn claimed as an artistic canvas the front page of the New York Times. Using specialized rubber stamps and bold pastels to enhance, eradicate, and alter images and text, she created a commentary - colorful, intense, smart, compassionate, visually explosive - on the year's events and the power of the press. When these artworks were shown at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York, they created a sensation. Chunn's treatment of the events we all lived through - the Presidential campaign, the crash of TWA flight 800, the wars in Chechnya and Rwanda - will strike an immediate chord in readers tuned in to the complex frequencies of a political world awash in images and news. Gary Indiana's interview with the artist provides lively and intimate insights into the artistic process as means of talking back to power and engaging with the world. Front Pages is being published to coincide with an exhibition of these works at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, January 10-March 2, 1998.

Front Pages

Sarah Cash

Views of American Women, 1873-1921

The Gilded Cage

Catalogue of the Exhibition , Corcoran Gallery of Art, December 11, 1976-January 30, 1977

Andre, Leva, Long

A Selection of Works of Art from Collections in the Washington Area, February Tenth-March Thirtieth, 1952

Privately Owned

Including Flat Lands & Related Views

Langdon Clay, Color Atlas

Donald Lipski

Transgressions, Donald Lipski and Buzz Spector

Emily Dana Shapiro

Lisa Maria Strong

Jennifer Carson

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

American Paintings to 1945

John Singer Sargent

Richard Ormond

Ships and the sea through the eyes of one of the most remarkable painters of the early 20th century As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between the ages of 18 and 23 he started his career as a professional painter with a remarkable range of maritime works that form the subject of this exhibition and book. The key works are the two versions of the Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878 on the northern coast of Brittany in France, and the group of studies and sketches around them. The authors relate Sargent's freely handled marine drawings, large and small, to his watercolors, oil sketches, and finished oil paintings of marine subjects. The works demonstrate his transition from a plein-air painter to a tonalist exploring interiors and urban scenes. Also presented is a unique scrapbook, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, that includes more than 50 drawings and sketches, mostly of sea scenes, and postcards and commercial photography of works of art, architecture, and tourist views. This scrapbook provides an intimate glimpse at the thoughts and experiences of the young artist on his first European voyage.

Sargent and the Sea

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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