"Celebrating one of the primary corporate collections in the state of Wisconsin (belonging to Quad Graphics), this book provides a model of enlightened corporate collecting for the entire country, highlighting the company's overwhelmingly generous record of support and an unusually sensitive corporate understanding fo the value of art.Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
"British artist Isaac Julien is recognized as one of the foremost practitioners of audiovisual film installation. His art is distinguished by its conceptual rigor, formal beauty, and technical innovation. The catalogue Isaac Julien: Expeditions accompanies the Museum's Currents 34 exhibition, which presents the artist's Expeditions trilogy in its entirety for the first time. The full-color catalogue features essays by Shelleen Greene, a ..."
"Jack Lemon and his Landfall Press is one of a handful of fine art presses who work directly with the leading artists of our day. As Lemon notes, "in the collaborative situation, the artist relies on the printer not just for technical information but for essential judgments. . . . Communicating with artists is something I know how to do." This catalog documents 25 years of such collaboration with artists as diverse as Christo, Vito Acco ..."
"Photographers John Shimon and Julie Lindemann use antique cameras, modern lens technology, artificial light, and contemporary pop culture to create portraits of the people in their native state amidst backyards, living rooms, parking lots, and the landscape of Wisconsin. These recent photographs are juxtaposed with portraits from the Milwaukee Art Museum's permanent collections, including daguerreotype portraits, ambrotypes, and tintype ..."
"This Catalogue was created in conjunction with the special exhibition, Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper. This Catalogue presents 125 drawings, watercolors and pastels by some of the greatest artists in the history of Western Art. Active in France during the second half of the nineteenth century and closely associated with avant-garde movements, artists such as Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and T ..."
"The first exploration of the art that Georgia O'Keeffe retained for her personal collection, including works that have never been publicly exhibited. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's preeminent artists and one of the first to experiment with abstract form, though she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. An enormously popular artist, she became identified and respected as an independent American spirit thr ..."
"This book presents the first major study of this important American designer and craftsman, drawing upon new photographs and fresh sources of information."
"This manual presents an array of Western European and Polish paintings from Poland's most important national and private museums. A testimony to the remarkable history of collecting and patronage in Poland, it showcases Leonardo da Vinci's magnificent "Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)", but also includes important works by Hans Memling, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernardo Bellotto, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Marie-Louise E ..."
"The painter Milton Avery is the among the most beloved of American artists. A cool modernist, he is known chiefly for his vividly colored landscapes and intimate scenes of family life. Long overshadowed by Abstract Expressionism, his art has recently begun to be reassessed and its place in the history of modernism restored.Robert Hobbs explores the development of Avery's painting in this crucial phase and draws insightful connections be ..."
Driven to Create(1st Edition) The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught & Outsider Art by MilwaukeeArtMuseum, Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2005 by MilwaukeeArtMuseum ISBN-13: 978-0-944110-35-5, ISBN: 0-944110-35-5
"Both European and American Folk Art is explored in this volume documenting another facet of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s permanent collection of folk and outsider art. This collection includes works by Wolfli, Traylor, Yoakum, Wallis and others.Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
"Gottlieb Biedermeier, a teasing middle-class papa best known for his appearances in a Munich satirical weekly, came to fame in the 1840s. A "god-loving everyman," he represented the typical German citizen, more interested in a comfortable home and a convivial family than political activism. The poets who created him, needling the bourgeoisie and signing their own work "Biedermeier," weren't thinking about the elegant housewares that now ..."
"Frank Lloyd Wright was deeply committed to the idea that the home and all its furnishings be a comprehensive work of art. One of his key collaborators was Milwaukee based interior decorator George Mann Niedecken. This catalog presents a range of Wright-Niedecken collaborations during the decade from the inception of the Niedecken-Walbridge Company in 1907, to Wright’s final dwellings in the Prairie idiom circa 1918. Since Wright and Nie ..."
" Wisconsin is the "Wright State," and it’s influence on the young Frank Lloyd Wright, both geographic and cultural, is carefully explored in this review of 50 of his Wisconsin projects. The book then uses those projects as case studies tracing the development of his remarkable career.Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
"German artist Dirk Skreber (born 1961) depicts natural disasters, catastrophic events and ominous scenes of vague but impending danger, but with a calm detachment that infuses his work with a peculiar tension. He has emerged as a prominent contemporary artist who explores seemingly contradictory ideas such as abstraction and figuration, beauty and calamity, through paintings, sculptures and video. His subjects reveal his fascination wit ..."
Drinking in Art Mettlach Steins & Related Wares by Jody Clowes, MilwaukeeArtMuseum Paperback, 12 Pages, Published 1995 by MilwaukeeArtMuseum ISBN-13: 978-0-944110-51-5, ISBN: 0-944110-51-7
Accidental Genius(1st Edition) Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection by MilwaukeeArtMuseum, Margaret Andera, Lisa Stone Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 2012 by Milwaukee, Wi Munich ; New York : MilwaukeeArtMuseum ; Delmonico Books, An Imprint Of Prestel ISBN-13: 978-0-944110-97-3, ISBN: 0-944110-97-5
"Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Feb. 10 -May 6, 2012."
"In the 1990s The Milwaukee Art Museum sought to strengthen its already extensive collection of the works of 19th Century German artists. Collecting works on paper—prints and drawings—became the most effective way of doing so, and the expansion of the collection and its significance are documented by this catalog to a 2002 exhibition.Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
"A five-decade survey of paintings, drawings and prints by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) that features over 100 works drawn primarily from the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Milwaukee Art Museum."