Jean Stern

Susan Hallsten McGarry

Terry Lawson Dunn

Reproductions of paintings depicting eight U.S. national parks.

Historic Connections, Contemporary Interpretations

Art of the National Parks

Kenneth Riley

Having honed his technical skills working for The Saturday Evening Post, McCalls, and Redbook after World War II, unparallelled illustrator Kenneth Riley moved West to become one of the most respected artistic interpreters of pre-reservation Native American culture. 113 color plates.

The Historical Paintings of Kenneth Riley

West of Camelot

Rebecca Tobey

Gene Tobey

For twenty years, Gene and Rebecca Tobey worked together as husband and wife and artistic partners. Having created a distinctive style and a unique artistic signature, the Tobey design is instantly recognizable. In 2006 Gene Tobey passed away after battling leukemia. In the pages of Partners in Art, Rebecca Tobey shares her insights into their creative and collaborative process and shows the creations she and Gene forged during their two-decade partnership. She also includes a glossary of the Tobey signature sgraffito (etched symbols), unlocking the meaning behind the images she and Gene incorporated into almost every piece of their work. Susan Hallsten McGarry, former editor-in-chief of Southwest Art, discusses the Tobey ingenuity and legacy in her essay, Spirits Soar. This retrospective with over 250 full color plates is a testimony to the vision and art of Gene & Rebecca Tobey.

Gene and Rebecca Tobey

Partners in Art

Thomas Palmore

"Born in Ada and living in Oklahoma, Palmore emerged from the 1970s Photorealist movement as a maverick. His career includes more than a decade on the East Coast, where he refined his skills at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited in New York's prominent contemporary galleries. Palmore used his technical virtuosity to explore his passion for the animal kingdom. Then as today, his monumental paintings received critical acclaim, and his incongruous juxtapositions of realistic primates in silk-and-velvet interiors earned him the nickname Gorilla Man." "Palmore's fidelity to an animal's visage is intended to make it proud. However, the contexts in which he places them are pure Palmore, infused with his penchant for wit and the unexpected. His portrait of Oscar, the famed rodeo bull, is set against Palmore-designed wallpaper of cowboys catapulted into the air. A rooster surveys its Grant Wood countryside, and an imposing lion is oblivious to the diminutive monarch butterfly that shares its epithet. In all cases, Palmore's paintings loom large not only in scale but also in raised consciousness of the "earthlings with whom we share this planet," as he says." "In this first book to chronicle Palmore's four-decade career, Susan Hallsten McGarry explores the stories behind the man, his philosophy and techniques, and the themes that weave throughout his remarkable oeuvre. McGarry, who was editor in chief of Southwest Art magazine from 1979 to 1997, has authored numerous catalogs and monographs on American artists. Adam Harris, Curator of Art at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, contributes the foreword."--BOOK JACKET.

Susan Hallsten McGarry

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