Contemporary American Realist Drawings

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

Gathers recent American portraits, still lifes, figure studies, and landscapes done in pencil, ink, pastel, charcoal, or watercolors

An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A study of the typical chracteristics of twentieth-century realism.

An exploration of the American realist tradition. It discusses and displays the most important work of the different groups and schools, including American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, Precisionism and Urban Realism. Featured artists include Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins.

This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility and liveliness of the American realist tradition.