Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965

by Caroline A. Jones, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

1990 · Univ of California Press

"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park

Contemporary American Realist Drawings

by Ruth Fine, Raymond Hernández-Durán, Mark Pascale

1999 · Hudson Hills

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