Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee

A major new book about Doris Lee, one of the top female artists-indeed among the top figurative artists, regardless of gender-in the American art world from the mid-1930s through the 1950s.

List of contents

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Simple Joys and Serious Painting by Melissa Wolfe
Doris Lee's Senses of Humor and History by John Fagg
Doris Lee in Woodstock by Tom Wolf
Into the Commercial Realm by Barbara L. Jones
The Art of Doris Lee
Doris Emrick Lee Chronology by Amy Torbert
Exhibition Checklist
Selected Bibliography
Board & Staff
Index

About the author

Barbara L. Jones is chief curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, and the author of Samuel Rosenberg: Portrait of a Painter (2003). Melissa Wolfe is curator of American Art, St. Louis Art Museum, and co-editor of Reflections: The American Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (2019). John Fagg is professor of American Studies, University of Birmingham, UK, and author of 'That Abused Word: Genre': The 1930s Genre Painting Revival in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 (2011). Tom Wolf is professor of Art History at Bard College, NY and leading Yasuo Kuniyoshi scholar.

Summary

A major new book about Doris Lee, one of the top female artists--indeed among the top figurative artists, regardless of gender--in the American art world from the mid-1930s through the 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Wolfe, Melissa Wolfe
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781911282679
• ISBN: 978-1-911282-67-9
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; USA, Graphic Design, ART / Individual Artists / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Advertising, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, ART / American / General, ART / Women Artists, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Individual artists, art monographs, Illustration & commercial art, Textile design & theory