Artists in California, 1786-1940 by Edan Milton Hughes
$75
Published by the Crocker Art Museum
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Current Exhibition Catalogues:

Aimée Crocker’s Refined Vaudeville: Around the World with America’s Most Intriguing Heiress
$26.95; $24.25 members (hard cover)
This biography explores the amazing life of Aimée Crocker, daughter of the Crocker Art Museum’s founders E. B. and Margaret Crocker. During her lifetime she was an international social success, receiving widespread press for her dramatic costumes, travels to the Far East, extensive tattoos and five controversial marriages, twice to Russian nobility. 201 pages.

Past Exhibition Catalogues:

Soaring Voices: Contemporary Women Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
$39; $26.95 members (soft cover)
Soaring Voices celebrates the revolution in clay by the women who broke through the barrier of the once male-only field of Japanese ceramics. This catalogue surveys the accomplishments of 25 leading female figures in contemporary Japanese ceramics, including Shoko Koike, Yasuko Sakurai and more. The catalogue is available in the Crocker Art Museum Store. 96 pages.

Buddhas
$29.95; $26.95 members (hard cover)
Filled with vivid color photos of buddhas, this catalogue published by Pomegranate explores the breadth of Buddhist belief as elucidated through the many depictions of buddhas, from the first millennium to modern times. Author Nancy Tingley holds a PhD in South and Southeast Asian art history from the University of California, Berkeley. The catalogue is available in the Crocker Art Museum Store. 120 pages.

Picasso To Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection
$40; $36 members (hard cover)
This book catalogs the art collection of Richard Weisman – from the earliest works he purchased in the 1960s to the 70s and 80s when he was among the inner circle of Warhol’s Factory. Edited by Patricia Shea, the book highlights works from his collection, past and present; 120 illustrations, 100 in full color.

The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body
$37.50 (soft cover)
Divided into four sections, this illustrated color catalogue published by Lund Humphries examines the major advances in drawing practice: the influence of Michelangelo and Raphael in the Renaissance; the dialogue between nothern and southern influence in 17th-century Netherlands; the earlier formation and ultimate dominance of the Academie in 18th-century France; and the refined academic method applied to native subjects in 19th-century Germany. Authors are drawings specialists William Breazeale, exhibition organizer; Susan Anderson, an author and editor under contract to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Christine Giviskos, Associate Curator at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; and Christiane Andersson, the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History, Bucknell University. The catalogue is available in the Crocker Art Museum Store. 172 pages

Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque
$30; $27 members (hard cover)
The canon of California — and America — art is enhanced by this elegantly illustrated catalog of works by painter Edwin Deakin from 1838 to 1923, that accompanies the Crocker's exhibition of his work January 25 to April 20, 2008. Written by the Crocker's Chief Curator Scott A. Shield, Ph.D., with an introduction by Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., of The North Point Gallery, the book explores the artist's varied production of everything from European and American landscapes to paintings of the California missions and the destruction of San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. The book is liberally illustrated with 85 color renditions of his paintings and drawings, plus six black and white photographs of the artist and his studio; 120 pages.

The Art of Robert Cremean: Selected Works, 1952-2005
$19.95; $17.96 members (hardcover)
An up-to-the-minute look at a lifetime of this talented California sculptor's creations comes alive in a 47- page, well-illustrated compendium of his drawings, writings, paintings and ceramics (recent gifts to the Crocker by Robert de la Vergne) written by Crocker Chief Curator Scott A. Shields and de la Vergne

Echoes of the Earth: Ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu
$22.95; $20.65 members (hardcover)
Images of a lifetime of work comprises the catalog for the Crocker Art Museum exhibition of this remarkable Japanese-American master ceramist; written by the Crocker’s chief curator Scott Shields, with a forward by Gary Smith; 38 pages.

Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
$35.00; $31.50 members (soft cover)
Irving Norman's enormous, profound and shocking paintings are beautifully captured in this 228-page, full-color exhibition catalogue, co-edited by Crocker Art Museum Chief Curator Scott A. Shields.

Craters from Fire: Ceramics by James Lovera
$22.95; $20.65 members (hard cover)
The explosive colors, elegant forms and sensuous textures of James Lovera's ceramics are beautifully illustrated in this 46-page catalogue.

Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907
$34.95; $31.45 members (soft cover) $65; $58.50 (hard cover)
The 350-page color catalogue was written by Crocker Art Museum Chief Curator Scott A. Shields and published by The University of California Press. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of images, including many never before published, it features 160 illustrations along with extensive biographical material on each artist.

HairStories
$22.95; $20.65 members
A dance project inspired the Hair Stories exhibit, chronicled in this illustrated, 64-page catalogue of works by more than two dozen artists.

Material Differences: Art and Identity in Africa
$37.95; $34.15 members
Everything from Nigerian masks to a sophisticated bow stand from the Democratic Republic of Zaire are colorfully illustrated in this 179-page catalogue created by the Museum for African Art in New York.

George Herms with Love
$15; $13.50 members
More of Herms’ collage, assemblage and prints fill 25 pages of the catalog for another eponymous show in 2005 at the Tobey C. Moss Gallery in Los Angeles.

San Francisco and the Second Wave
$37.95; $34.15 members
$49.95; $44.95 members
San Francisco Bay Area Abstract Expressionism gets its due in a catalogue of the Blair Collection show; 240 illustrated pages; hard and soft cover. Available by special request.

Reality & Realism: The Ceramic Art of Ah Leon
$17.97; $16.10 members
Taiwanese artist Leon constructed a full-size bridge from his realistic ceramic parts; This construction and other examples of his art are shown in this elegant, illustrated, 95-page catalogue.

Thiebaud Selects Thiebaud
$14.95; $13.45 members
World-renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud surveys his own artistic production over a 40-year period; 56 pages, of illustrations.

Fred Dalkey: Retrospective
$22.95; $20.65 members
$45; $40.50 members
Sacramento artist Fred Dalkey’s varied output of paintings and elegant drawings, is illustrated in a well-illustrated, 135-page hard or soft cover catalogue.

The Fine Art of California Basketry
$20; $18 members
A show that clearly elevated basketry to world-class status, shown in 114 colorfully illustrated pages. 

Material Witness: Masters from California Crafts
$39.95; $35.95 members
From glass and ceramics to petit point and metals, the Creative Arts League show of California crafts comes alive on 123 pages.