Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
- ISBN-10
- 0865591806
- ISBN-13
- 9780865591806
- Category
- Drawing
- Pages
- 136
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Hudson Hills
- Authors
- Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernández-Durán, Mark Pascale
Description
The Davidsons assembled an extraordinary collection of American drawings dating from 1960 to the present, showcasing the continuing currency of realism and humanism. Featuring such artists as William Bailey, Jack Beal, William Beckman, Rackstraw Downes, Janet Fish, Alex Katz, Alfred Leslie, Michael Mazur, Alice Neel, and Philip Pearlstein, the collection has been given to the Art Institute of Chicago, which is exhibiting 125 of its finest examples. This beautiful volume includes biographies of the artists and an important critical essay by Ruth E. Fine. 126 colour illustrations
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