The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room
- ISBN-10
- 0810919567
- ISBN-13
- 9780810919563
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Harry N Abrams Incorporated
- Authors
- Museum of Fine Arts, Alvia J. Wardlaw, Houston
Description
In this splendid book, which accompanies a major exhibition of Biggers's work opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in April, 1995, a generous selection of Biggers's paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures are reproduced together for the first time. Included are preparatory drawings for the artist's major mural commissions, such as his now lost early Expressionist work.
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- 1995-01-01
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