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An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum

1 review
Patricia Junker

Hudson Hills Press, 2001

Positively American Art
In life Amon G Carter was all for getting the American plane industry off the ground. In fact, he flew the first airplane to Ft Worth, Texas, in 1911. With his death, in 1955, he hoped to open up the arts to all. So, by his will, a museum was set up to house as many works as possible by Frederic Remington and Charles M Russell. His museum more than meets that goal. Its catalogue shows it to be ...

Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler

1 review
Patricia Junker, Sarah Burns

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Winslow Homer: Outdoorsman
The art is amazing. And the book is a fine academic effort at explaining Homer. However, each chapter is authored by a different writer and not every chapter is equally well-crafted. This individual essay format also thwarts any attempt to present a cohesive story arc. In the end, I still wonder exactly why the outdoors meant so much to Homer; none of the author's fully or successfully ...

George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings
Nancy K. Anderson

Lund Humphries Publishers, 2008

John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West

1 review
Patricia A. Junker, John Steuart Curry, ...

Hudson Hills Press, 1998

Definitive Tribute to an Important American Artist
At last, John Curry has a book in print worthy of his art. Ms. Junker has suceeded in paying a noble yet sadly overdue tribute to this unique and often neglected artist. Curry's paintings capture the emotion and natural force of American scenes in a way that was very much his own. Works like "Tornado over Kansas" and the scene of John Brown in "A Tragic Prelude" embody some of the greatest ...

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism

4 reviews
Michael Duncan, Charles C. Eldredge, ...

Heyday Books, 2006

WOW! Shockingly beautiful art book
If you've never heard of Irving Norman you may be in for a surprise. People didn't really paint like this at all in the middle of the 20th Century or much before that. Some Renaissance Masters had similar elaborations of the depth of perspective or of horrors of this world and the next. Some comic book illustrators in the 1960s had a similar deeply morbid whimsy. Who but Irving Norman could get ...