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My People: The Portraits of Robert Henri

1 review
Valerie Ann Leeds, Robert Henri

Univ of Washington Pr, 1995

A "must have" for portrait painters!!
Enchanting. Enlightening. Beautiful! Henri is a marvelous portrait painter.

THE EIGHT: EXHIBITION OF ARTHUR B. DAVIEW; WILLIAM GLACKENS; ROBERT HENRI; ERNEST LAWSON; GEORGE LUKS; ...
Micheal Owen (Foreword) Valerie Ann Leeds (Essay) ; Andrew Thompson (Biographies)

Owen Gallery, 2002

101 Masterpieces of New York City: Must-See Works of Art & Architecture in the New York Metropolitan Area
Valerie Ann Leeds

Alyson Books, 2009

This book is a major resource to the forty million visitors of New York City and the nearly twenty million art-loving residents of the Tri-State region, the largest urbanized area in the United States. For those who wish to gain a wider appreciation for art and architecture, this guide offers the insight of an art historian on the most important destinations (editor's picks are inclusive of the surrounding urbanized regions of New York ...

Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements

1 review
Carol Diehl, Anita Shreve

Hard Press (MA), 2007

artist explores new dimensions of faces and figures in paintings
"A deliciously weird symbiosis of Giotto and Seurat, of Fran Angelico and Gauguin, Stevovich defies easy description," writes Anita Shreve in her "Preface to the Plates". In an interview coming after the display of 166 oils and pastels, the artist himself points to medieval and Renaissance painters and techniques which influenced him and to modernist ones as well. But this still is not enough to ...

Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush With Leisure, 1895-1925

4 reviews
James Tottis, Valerie Ann Leeds, ...

Merrell, 2007

A top pick for both New York and college-level art libraries.
Relatively few primers offer in-depth details on the Ashcan artists: a school of early 20th-century American artists whose work centered around New York City life. Here the underworld of the City was often displayed - and LIFE'S PLEASURES is the first book to explore the lighter side of the Ashcan artists' works, featuring leisure scenes in cafes, bars and parks and movies. You'll recognize the ...

Harold Weston: A Retrospective [Exhibition Catalogue, Peters Gallery, Nov. 15 - Dec. 14, 2007]
Valerie Ann Leeds

Gerald Peters Gallery, 2007

63-pages. 16-page essay includes b/w family photos of artist. 39 full-page color plates.

Ray Ellis in Retrospect: A Painter's Journey
Valerie Ann Leeds, Ray G. Ellis, ...

Abbeville Press, 2004

The first retrospective of the work of Ray Ellis, a celebrated American artist acclaimed for his paintings of Martha's Vineyard and the Lowcountry of Georgia and South Carolina. With an insightful text by a noted American art specialist and vibrant, color-infused images, this dazzlingly beautiful book reveals the full breadth of Ray Ellis's remarkable career. While Ellis is often described as an Impressionist because of his loose brushwork, ...

Robert Henri: The Painted Spirit

Gerald Peters Gallery, 2005

Robert Henri: The Painted Spirit at Gerald Peters Gallery is an exhibition of 35 portraits from every period of Henris career plus several nudes, on loan from private and public collections.