Contemporary American Realist Drawings

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Summary: Highly recommended for art library reference collections.
Review: Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane And RichardDavidson Collection At The Art Institute Of Chicago superbly showcasesone of the finest collections on the subject extent today. Jalane and Richard Davidson collected drawings from outstanding assembly of American artists ranging from Sigmund Abeles and George Atkinson, to James Winn and Richard Ziemann. Contemporary American Realist Drawings showcases 125 drawings drawn from the Davidson collection of about 300 and are organized by subject matter: Self-Portraits, Portraits, Nudes, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Other Subjects. The reader is treated to an encyclopedic overview of the many ways in which specific drawing materials may be used from silverpint to charcoal, pastel to black & white. Contemporary American Realist Drawings is further enhanced for the art enthusiast with a Preface by James N. Wood and Douglas W. Druick; an Introduction by Mark Pascale; biographies of every artist by Raymond Hernandez-Duran; and a major essay by Ruth fine about the works represented in the collection. Highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library art history collections.