Books in African-American Artists and Artisans series

"Grandma Moses is a name synonymous with American folk art. Considered by many to be America's preeminent folk painter, her winsome style, evocative of a simpler, bygone era, has endeared her to millions worldwide. The landscape is probably the most popular of Grandma Moses's subjects. She captured the land she knew and loved in New England in many moods and seasons, often employing it as a backdrop for family and community activities"--

This is an enthusiastic survey of Ansel Adams' varied career--from commercial photographer to avant-garde modernist and finally standard-bearer of pure photography. His well-known photographs of America's national parks--featured in this volume--are remarkable for their timeless celebration of the nation's unblemished landscape. Ansel Adams was an artist and conservationist, a visionary and pragmatist. The extraordinary work of Ansel Adams--artist and conservationist, visionary and pragmatist--is a permanent record of America's wild beauty achieved by a man whose own nature was as immutable as the earth he loved.

"Frank Lloyd Wright, born in Wisconsin, is the avatar of American architecture. Both before and after World War I, the boldness and innovation of Wright's buildings, built largely in the Midwest, established his reputation as a leading architect. As his career progressed, Wright became discouraged with the confinement of cities and moved to develop his ideas for buildings in harmony with the natural world. Today, many years after his death, not only is Wright's international reputation intact and growing, but buildings are yet being constructed based on his original designs"--

Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.A beautiful overview of the life and work of the greatest American woman artist of the modern age, illustrated with full-color reproductions from the early flowers of the New York years to the bleached bones and awe-inspiring landscapes of the Southwest.

" During a fifty-year period, an artistic movement developed in America that was based on Romanticism and inspired by the wild areas in the vicinity of New York's Hudson River. The first native American school of landscape painting included artists Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Burand, and Thomas Doughty as well as Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, and Albert Bierstadt. While most of these artists did not think of thmeselves as belonging to a movement, they did share a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the New World's remarkable scenic wilderness"--

Drawing inspiration from the mundane, Edward Hopper used his unique style to create hauntingly evocative scenes of everyday life, portraying the starkness of Main Street and exploring the visual vocabulary of light. Whether he set his scenes in offices, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, train compartments, or theaters, his favorite theme--the isolation of the individual--is always prominent. Many of Hopper's most brilliant works--from urban scenes to rural landscapes and from etchings to oil paintings--are represented here in a stunning portfolio of 70 full-color illustrations.