Art Forms

Since his death in 1942, St Ives has become marinated in the spirit of the naïve painter, Alfred Wallis. Naum Gabo, the Russian Constructivist, fel...

Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influe...

Stanley Donwood and the enigmatic Dr Tchock are the elusive duo responsible for Radiohead's artwork. Containing paintings they have produced in t...

Bringing the life and work of a truly unique artist to life, Van Gogh is a comprehensive guide to one of the most unconventional and highly origina...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...

Jean McEwen (19231999) was a Canadian painter who was known for his abstract, colourful paintings. De ma main a la couleur (Hand to Colour) is a se...

In the heart of Tuscany, Piero della Francesca became a painter and mathematician at the dawn of the Renaissance, revealing his innovative mind in ...

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas sta...

Thacher Hurd and John Cassidy teach watercolour painting like no one else. Landscapes can wait!First, you'll learn the feel of the brush, the flow ...

For me my sun is, like all paintings, a functional object for seeing, for feeling, for dreaming, for understanding are the words Michael Buthe (19...

At thirty-six, Julian Schnabel was not only represented in the most important exhibitions of his time; retrospectives of his works were already bei...

Georgia O''Keeffe is one of the most significant and intriguing artists of the twentieth century, known internationally for her boldly innovative a...

Though numbering just 35 known works, the uvre of Johannes Vermeer (16321675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in ar...

In 1954, following her death, Frida Kahlo's possessions were locked away in the Casa Azul in Mexico City, her lifelong home. Half a century later, ...

Painter and illustrator Edward Bawdens five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, contain everything from stamps, photographs,...

The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the worlds foremost contemporary artists For more than 60 years, Jasper ...

Roland Paris is one of the most recognisable artists of the Art Deco world, yet his work remains something of an enigma. His art is caricature-like...

The Bible contains some of the greatest stories and teachings of all time. It is also the inspiration for some of the greatest pictures ever painte...

The Visual Candy paintings were made between 1992 and 1994.The works showcase the ways in which Damien Hirst used the signifier of candy during the...

Cities provide endless exciting scenes for the artist, from sun-baked cafes, rain-soaked streets, illuminated nightscapes and busy squares to quiet...

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with hi...

Each volume in this new series offers an in-depth exploration of one major work in MoMAs collection. Through a lively illustrated essay by a MoMA c...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

At a critical time in Canada's history, the Group of Seven revolutionized the country's appreciation of itself by celebrating Canada as a wild and ...

Born in 1881 in a small village north of Montreal, Clarence Gagnon is best known for his paintings of sun-drenched winter landscapes. Despite livin...

A product of the industrialized New South, Eugene Healan Thomason (1895-1972) made the obligatory pilgrimage to New York to advance his art educati...

With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro...

I congratulate the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art on its twentieth birthday. This catalogue, which highlights those twenty years of collecting, is an...