Books written by Colta Feller Ives

Romanticism & the School of Nature: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection

Breslau r815 - 1905 Berlin A Spina'iy Tree in Kassel, 1847 Graphite on laid paper 8 V8 x 5 V3 in. (20.5 x 12.9 cm) Signed in graphite, lower left: A.M. 47./ Cassel Menzel is best known for his keenly observant portrayals of people and ...
The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections

(31.1 X 34 cm) Private Collection W 549 Three Tahitian Women, 1896 Oil on wood 9% x 17 in. (24.6 X 43.2 cm) Signed and dated lower right: P Gauguin 96 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg ...
Goya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eugene Rodrigues (Lugt 897) ROGERS FUND, 1919 19.27 (fig 9) Unholy Union Album D(?) Brush with black ink and Wash; 176 X 127 mm G. I, 112 ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION, 1975 19751-975 DRAWINGS FROM ALBUM E (“Black Border Album”), ...
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

Presents a collection of the drawings of Vincent Van Gogh, providing images of his works in charcoal, chalk, ink, graphite, and watercolor, and including essays the place each drawing in its historical context, explaining its significance.
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings

A comprehensive look at Van Gogh’s beautiful and varied drawings, revealing fascinating insights into the artist’s process and vision
Pierre Bonnard, the Graphic Art

The place held a profoundly symbolic meaning for Bonnard, stemming from childhood summers of joyous release from living in a pension away from home while undergoing the rigors of a classical lycée education-a captivity with which he ...
The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints

In The Great Wave, Colta Feller Ives, Curator in Charge, Department of Prints and Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, recounts the phenomenal "cult of Japan" in late nineteenth-century France and reveals through direct comparisons ...
Daumier Drawings

By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by ...
Toulouse-Lautrec in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the Museum's holdings by the artist.
Daumier Drawings

By combining Daumier's drawings with selected examples of his paintings, prints, and bronzes, this book traces the evolution of the artist's succinct and emphatically expressive style from its roots in the European tradition exemplified by ...