New Art Books

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde (Eds.) Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray & Rebecca Rabinow. 492 pp.; 10 ¼ x 11 1/8; 620 Illus., 400 in Color; Plates; Sources and Documents; References; Index. $75.00 Hardcover. *****
Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts by Linda Komaroff. 336 pp.; 10 x 12 ¼; 250 Color Illus.; Bibliography; Glossary; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940 by Libby Bischof and Susan Danly. 184 pp.; 8 7/8 x 10 ½; 96 Illus., 93 in Color; Exhibition Checklist; Bibliography; Index. $50.00 Hardcover. ****
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America by Alexander Nemerov. 10 ½ x 11 3/8; 87 Illus., 63 in Color; Ault Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index. $45.00 Hardcover. ****
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (Ed.) Sarah Greenough. 832 pp.; 8 x 10 ¼; 30 B/W Illus.; Concordance of Artworks by Stieglitz and O’Keeffe; Index. $39.95 Hardcover. *****
A Reflection of Holland: The Best of the Hague School of the Rijksmuseum by Renske Suyver. 128 pp.; 9 5/8 x 11 1/8; B/W & Color Illus.; Further Reading. $25.00 Softcover. *****
Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore by Karen Levitov. 80 pp.; 9 ¾ x 10 ¾; 80 Illus., 62 in Color; Plates’ Select Chronology; Exhibition Checklist. $20.00 Hardcover. ****
An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters by David Peters Corbett. 56 pp.; 7 ¾ x 9 ¼; 32 Color Illus.; Biographies of the Artists; Bibliography; List of Works. $15.00 Softcover. *****

McFARLAND & CO., INC: Edward Hopper Encyclopedia by Lenora Mamunes. 196 pp.; 7 x 10; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. $55.00 Softcover. ****

ISBS/OSLO ACADEMIC PRESS: eMunch.no—Text and Image (Ed.) Mai Britt Guleng. 303 pp.; 8 ¾ x 9 ¾; B/W & Color Illus.; Bibliography; Author’s Biographies. 50.00 Hardcover. *****

THE ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBL. GROUP: Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections by Carolyn Kinder Carr and Ellen Miles. 200 pp.; 8 ¼ x 10 ¼; Color Illus.; Notes; Index. $49.95 Hardcover. *****

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound by Anne Focke. 208 pp.; 8 ½ x 10 ½; 110 Illus., 100 in Color; Author Biographies. $40.00 Hardcover. ****
From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland by Jonathan Stuhlman and Valerie Ann Leeds. 144 pp.; 8 x 10; 83 Illus., 68 in Color; Exhibition Checklist. $35.00 Softcover. ****
Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands by Crispin Howarth, et al. 128pp.; 8 ½ x 10 ½; Color Illus.; Notes; Bibliography. $35.00 Softcover. ***
Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colburne by David F. Martin. 96 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; 140 Illus., 130 in Color; Checklist. $25.00 Softcover. *****
Monet’s Water Lilies: The Agapanthus Triptych by Simon Kelly et al. 64 pp.; 12 x 8; 62 Color Illus., 3-Panel Foldout; Select Bibliography; $16.95 Hardcover. *****

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed. 285 pp.; 7 ¼ x 10 ¼; 175 B/W & Color Illus.; Bibliography and Notes; Index. $35.00 Hardcover. *****

FW MEDIA: Splash 12; Celebrating Artistic Vision: The Best of Watercolor (Ed.) Rachel Rubin Wolf. 144 pp.; Color Illus.; Index. $35.00 *****

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PRESS: Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas by Susan Cooksey. 160 pp.; 9 x 12; B/W & Color Illus. $29.95 Softcover. ****

PRESTEL: 50 Contemporary Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann and Brad Finger. 160 pp.; 7 ¾ x 9 ½; 150 Color Illus.; Glossary; Index. $19.95 Softcover. *****
Paul Klee: Life and Work by Boris Friedewald. 176 pp.; 7 ¾ x 9 ½; 160 Illus., 130 in Color; List of Illustrations; Index. $19.95 Softcover. *****

TRAFALGAR SQUARE PUBLISHING: Collins 30 Minute Oils by Melanie Cambridge. 96 pp.; 8 x 6 ½; Color Illus.; Further Information; Index. $13.95 *****