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Words and Images from the American Media
Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumberg...
In Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
A New Edition
American photographer Donald Blumberg (b. 1935) began his career making black-and-white photographs of the streets and people of New York. He first gained national attention and widespread recognition for his 1965–67 series ...
The Wrath of the Gods
Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among “the flower of my stock.” This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his...
Drawn from Courtly India
The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection
This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian Drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has...
That Day
Pictures in the American West
“Rather than the proverbial melting pot, Wilson asks us to recognize a West that is at least a place where, against a backdrop of aridity and expansive space, diverse lives can and do coexist.” —John Rohrbach
Keys to a Passion
This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian,...
The Art of Music
A fascinating study of the relationship between music and visual art in a variety of media from around the world The Art of Music is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the...
Alex Katz
This Is Now
A handsomely illustrated look at the landscape paintings of a contemporary American master Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of...
As it were ... So to speak
A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom
The installations of the conceptual artist Barbara Bloom (b. 1951) have captivated audiences for decades. Since the 1970s, her work has consistently redefined the way in which viewers understand objects. Bloom siphons meaning...
The Glory of Saint George
Man, Dragon, and Death
This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century,...