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This is the story of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) the first African American painter to achieve fame in both Europe and America. An inspiration for the Harlem Renaissance artists and later generations of American painters, his story is retold by Faith Ringgold, one of today’s leading African American artists, to inspire another generation of children to become the artists of the future.

Faith Ringgold’s depiction of Tanner’s struggle to achieve his dream and his success as a painter on the world stage will inspire and challenge young readers to look at the artist’s work and maybe go out and buy a few brushes and dry pigments (like Tanner did as a young boy in Philadelphia just 3 years after the Civil War) and set out to achieve their own dreams.

The book is published to coincide with a major exhibition of Tanner’s work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 32 pages, 20 color photos and 30 color illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-092-5
Language: English

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Faith Ringgold, artist and author lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ringgold’s art has been exhibited worldwide. She has written and illustrated fourteen children’s books including, Tar Beach which has won more than 30 awards including a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award.

Elizabeth Osbourne By Robert Cozzolino

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Elizabeth Osborne (born 1936) has been a prominent figure in Philadelphia and at the Pennsylvania Academy since the 1950s. An influential painter and teacher, Osborne has been engaged with capturing the transitory effects of color and light through a variety of shifting subjects since the 1960s. Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light brings together works from all periods in her career, from a haunting series of interiors, to innovative land- and seascapes of the 1970s, ambitious large watercolors of the 1980s and work of the past two decades exploring nature’s micro and macrocosm.

Approximately forty paintings, drawings and watercolors as well as the artist’s sketchbooks are included and reveal the numerous ways Osborne has used color, often un-modulated, to represent the nuances of light and atmosphere. Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light traces how Osborne responded to developments of 1960s painting through innovation and the strong foundation of her Academy training.

REVEIWS

via Amazon.com (c) 2010 – “Wonderful artist and very well done monograph. The paintings are clear and beautiful and the written reviews were very helpful to learn more about the artist. Greatly enjoyed the monograph.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2010 – “A bright, colorful light as seen by an innovative artist. So glad to have “found” her.”

via Amazon.com (c) 2009 – “Excellent presentation, both biography and reproduction of paintings. Hard cover, quality paper and crisp prints.”

PRODUCT DETAILS

Hardcover: 132 pages
ISBN-10: 1593730705
ISBN-13: 978-1593730703
Language: English
Dimensions: 10.7 x 11.5 x 0.9 inches
Weight: 2.5 pounds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has organized numerous exhibitions at PAFA, including, Light, Line and Color: American Works on Paper 1765-2005 (2005), Vik Muniz: Remastered (2005), Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism (2006), Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima (2008), George Tooker: A Retrospective (2009), and Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light (2009). He is currently organizing a retrospective of the artist Peter Blume (1906-1992). He earned his Ph.D in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation on Ivan Albright (1897-1983). Dr. Cozzolino’s publications include exhibition catalogues for Elizabeth Osborne: The Color of Light and Art in Chicago, With Friends: Six Magic Realists 1940-1965 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005), and Dudley Huppler: Drawings (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) as well as contributions to: Shared Intelligence: American Painting and Photography (University of California Press, 2011), George Tooker: A Retrospective (Merrell, 2008), American Art at Princeton Volume One: Drawings and Watercolors (Yale University Press, 2004), New Critical Perspectives on Dal (Bompiani, 2004), and Ivan Albright (Hudson Hills Press, 1997).

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Bert Dodson

Bert Dodson is a painter, teacher, author and illustrator. He has illustrated over 80 books for children . He is the author of Keys To Drawing ( North Light Books, 1985), Keys to Drawing with Imagination, (2006) and NUKE A Book of Cartoons, vols. I and II.( McFarland and Co., 1986 and 1988).He co-authored, with noted biologist, Mahlon Hoagland, The Way Life Works ( Times Books, 1995), and Intimate Strangers; The Story of Unseen Life on Earth (ASM Press, 1999, Needam, et all). He was animation designer for the four part PBS television series, Intimate Strangers (1998). He illustrated over 30 opera stories for children, a series commissioned by The New York Metropolitan Opera.His work appears in Vermont Life, Northern Woodlands, and Dartmouth Medicine.  He regularly exhibits his watercolors and drawings. He has drawn and painted over 200 portraits. He lives in West Fairlee, Vermont, and works in his studio in Bradford, Vermont.

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