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The South in Black and White: The Graphic Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939–1946
Born in New Orleans in 1918 and raised in Atlanta, James E. Routh Jr. enrolled in the Arts Students League in New York in 1936, where he studied painting with Raphael Soyer, printmaking with Harry Sternberg, and lithography as an assistant to the League’s master printer, Will Barnet. Routh’s career as a printmaker culminated in a year-long trip through his native South, which he documented in sketches and, later, in paintings and prints. The fall 2009 exhibition was organized by GMOA in collaboration with the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The companion catalogue includes eighteen color and black-and-white reproductions of Routh’s prints, an essay by curator Stephen J. Goldfarb, and a checklist of the exhibition.
32 pp.; Illustrated (color and black-and-white). Published: 2009; $20.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-7-10
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-71-0
Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection
Born in 1912 in Rabbittown, just outside of Gainesville, Ga., Reuben “R.A.” Miller spent most of his life working in cotton mills and preaching as an itinerant Free Will Baptist minister. After retiring due to a back injury and glaucoma in the late 1970s, Miller realized his calling and began creating art full time. Inspired by nature, popular culture and his personal life, Miller’s works take as their subjects animals and other “critters,” angels, devils and members of his family. Since his death in 2006, Miller has been recognized as one of the great self-taught artists of the South. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, the exhibition Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection features 83 paintings, drawings, sculptures and whirligigs. This full-color exhibition catalogue includes more than 25 reproductions of Miller's works, an essay by curator Paul Manoguerra, an interview with the collector, Carl Mullis, and Durwood Pepper, Miller's friend and collaborator and more.
32 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2009; $25.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-70-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-70-3
The Historian's Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew
Ladis
Between September 7 and 9, 2006, 25 scholars of Italian Renaissance art gathered at the Georgia Museum of Art to honor Andrew Ladis, Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Sponsored by the museum, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the President’s Venture Fund, the conference represented the fulfillment of more than 10 years of similar gatherings in Athens that Ladis had helped to organize. The scholars and audience that came to Athens in September 2006 had all participated in one or another of these earlier events. They gathered to honor Ladis’s scholarship and to celebrate his generosity, his enthusiasm, and his joy at sharing art history with others. The Historian’s Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis comprises many of the papers presented at that conference, from scholars including Paul Barolsky, Norman E. Land, Perri Lee Roberts and the editors of this volume, Hayden B.J. Maginnis and Shelley E. Zuraw. Subjects addressed range from maps of Rome to chalices and guild regulations, the history of the Madonna delle Grazie motif in Renaissance Naples and the echoes of the Divine Comedy in the murals of the Chiostro Verde. The book concludes with a collection of tributes to Ladis by his former students and his academic bibliography. More than the usual compilation of essays resulting from a conference, The Historian’s Eye is a true festschrift and a worthy tribute to Ladis as scholar and teacher.
258 pp.; Illustrated (black and white). Published: 2009; $40.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-69-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-69-7
The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection
Designed as a parallel exhibition to Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen Collection, which the Georgia Museum of Art organized with the Mobile Museum of Art in 2003, The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection contains works by many of the same artists as its predecessor and addresses much of the same subject matter, from portrayals of the plight of the American farm worker to the development of industry and the growth of the urban environment. This exhibition catalogue includes 153 prints and drawings, all illustrated full page, in color, and each discussed in a brief essay on the facing page. Historian Harry Katz provides an introduction, and contributing authors include William U. Eiland, Paul Manoguerra, Gail Kallins, Carol Nathanson, Stephen Goldfarb and Lynn Barstis Williams. This exhibition and exhibition catalogue are of benefit not only to those who appreciate American art created between the two World Wars, but also to the average history buff, and they demonstrate the admirable diversity of Jason Schoen's collection of works on paper, which includes significant contributions from women and African American artists.
348 pp.; Illustrated (color). Published: 2008; $55.00
ISBN-10: 0-915977-67-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-915977-67-3