AMERICAN STUDIES – PART 1 – ESSAYS

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Vol.1
1966 LOUIS I. KAHN [New York: Museum of Modern Art]

1967 OLD & NEW AESTHETICS IN EARLY AMERICAN MODERNISMVol.2a Fenollosa: The Far East & American Culture: A Review
Vol.2b Arthur Dow, Teacher of O’Keeffe & Weber: A Profile
Vol.2c Fluid Energies & Color Fields: Drawings by Dove & O’Keeffe
Vol.2d Primal Images: The Drawings of Barnett Newman
Vol.2e Primal Thoughts: The Writings of Barnett Newman
Vol.2f Primal Words: Conversations with Barnett Newman

1968 TRANSCENDENTAL MYSTERIES IN AMERICAN ART
Vol.3a Evocations of the Infinite: Guimard, Kiesler, & Pollock
Vol.3b Marcel Duchamp: Conversations with the Grand Master
Vol.3c Max Ernst: the “Shaman” of Dada-Surrealism in America

1969 THE NEW ART OF MULTIPLES
Vol.4

1970 AMERICAN PRINTS
Vol.5a Gemini & the American Print Renaissance
Vol.5b New Catalogues Raisonnés

1971 AMERICAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE
Vol.6a Three Centuries of American Painting by Lanier Graham 1st edition [Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]
Vol.6b Reflections on War & Peace – a Museum Meditation Room
Vol.6c Contemporary California Sculpture – The SFAI Exhibition, Part 1
Vol.6d Carl Andre & the Politics of Art – The SFAI Exhibition, Part 2
Vol.6e Magical Shapes: The Sculpture of Arp, Brancusi, Noguchi, Cornell, & Calder


1972

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Cover of THE COLOR OF MOOD: AMERICAN TONALISM by Wanda Corn
Vol.7Foreword to The Color of Mood, American Tonalism by Wanda Corn [Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, managing editor: FLG]


1973 NEW ACQUISITIONS AT THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Vol.8a Church’s Rainy Season in the Tropics
Vol.8b Eakins’ The Courtship
Vol.8c Trompe l’Oeil Paintings by Haberle, Peto, & Pope

1974 THE WYETH SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO
Vol.9a Planning the Andrew Wyeth Exhibition & Catalogue with New York Graphic Society & Book-of-the-Month Club: The Art of Andrew Wyeth by Wanda Corn [managing editor.: FLG]
Vol.9b Painted Light: Painters & Sculptors as Photographers
Vol.9c The Painted Books of Helen Frankenthaler


1975

1976 Smithsonian Magazine cover-Rockefellers on cover.

Mr & Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd on the cover of SMITHSONIAN (Apr. 1976)
announcing the first presentation of their American collection in San Francisco

Vol.10 THE ROCKEFELLER SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO: Planning the Bicentennial Exhibition of the American Art from of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, including the catalogue published by FAMSF & the Whitney Museum of American Art: American Art from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd by E. P. Richardson [managing editor: FLG]


1976
Vol.11 THE ROCKEFELLER MINUTE Planning the first TV-PSA for an Art Museum. Funded by the Gerbode Foundation.

1977
Vol.12 THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN PAINTING by FLG. 2nd printing [Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]

1978
Vol.13 POP ART & THE END OF MODERNISM

1979
Vol.14 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOLS IN MODERN ART From Duchamp to Pollock

1980 COMMON VISIONS: POPULAR PRINTS & THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART
Vol.15a High & Low Art: A Bibliography
Vol.15b The Beloved Status of Rockwell, Wyeth, & Neiman
Vol.15c Pictures that Bind us Together: The Picture Magazine in America
Vol.15d The Neiman Phenomenon [Introduction to The Prints of LeRoy Neiman: A Catalogue Raisonné, Knoedeler, NYC

1981 CONTEMPORARY ART IN SAN FRANCISCO
Vol.16a “Viva!” Mexican-American Murals in San Francisco
Vol.16b Color Poems: Constructions by Christine Rhone
Vol.16c “I am Woman. I am Artist” Bay Area Printmakers
Vol.16c The Music of Minerva: Etchings by Sharron Neasham

1982
Vol.17 Ansel Adams: Photographer of Nature
[Sausalito: Headlands Art Center, Marin Headlands, GGNRA]

1983
Vol.18 NATIVE AMERICAN ART TODAY

1984
Vol.19 MODERN PRINTS BIBLIOGRAPHIES


1985

Vol.20 SWIRLING FROM THE VOID: THE PRINTS OF JACKSON POLLOCK, A MONOGRAPH & CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ (draft), 1985


1986
Vol.21 THE PRINTS DE KOONING: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ (draft)

1987
VOL.22a POLLOCK, HAYTER, & THE SEEDS OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

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Two Untitled works by Jackson Pollock, 1944 Engravings
Collection: FLG on loan to IAD
Ex. Collection: Rube Kadish
Published in JACKSON POLLOCK: A CATALOGUE RAISONNE…
SUPPLEMENT NUMBER ONE, 1995, p.55

Vol.22b THE SPONTANEOUS GESTURE:PRINTS & BOOKS OF THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ERA Semi-final draft [Canberra: National Gallery of Australia]

1988 PAINTERS AS PHOTOGRAPHERS (chapters):
Vol.23a Photographs by Sheeler, Schamberg, & Shahn
Vol.23b Photogaphs by Rauschenberg, Warhol, & Hockney
Vol.23c THE PRINTS OF WILLEM DE KOONING: AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF HIS EDITIONS, 1960-1971[reprinted in The Tamarind Papers: A Journal of the Fine Print]

1989 POESIS: POETRY BY VISUAL ARTISTS (chapters):
Vol.24a The Poetry of Allston
Vol.24b The Poetry of Cole
Vol.24d The Poetry of Vedder
Vol.24e Chronology & Bibliography in Ken Tyler: Master Printer by Pat Gilmour [Canberra: ANG]

1990 POESIS: POETRY BY VISUAL ARTISTS (chapters)
Vol.25a The Poetry of Weber
Vol.25b The Poetry of Marin
Vol.25c The Poetry of Dove
Vol.25d The Poetry of Hartley
Vol.25e The Rise of the Livres d’Artiste in America:
Reflections on 21 Etchings & Poems and the Early 1960s
[reprinted in The Tamarind Papers: A Journal of the Fine Print]
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1991 DE KOONING’S PRINTS
Vol.26a The Prints of Willem de Kooning: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ,volume 1 [Paris: Editions Baudoin Lebon]
Vol.26b DE KOONING THE PRINTMAKER [Introduction to Willem de Kooning: Printer’s Proofs New York: Salander-O’Reilly – English, German, & Spanish]

1992
Vol.27a “The Art of Frederick Sommer” in Image [International Museum of Photography/ George Eastman House]
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Vol.27b De Kooning, Frank O’Hara, & the Illustrated Book in America [Commissioned by the Limited Editions Club; not published]
VOL. 27c SWIRLING OUT OF THE VOID: THE PRINTS OF JACKSON POLLOCK.  A MONOGRAPH & CATALOGUE RAISONNE (2nd draft)

1993
Vol.28 RHYTHMS & REVERBERATIONS: Multicultural Art in the United States & Its Development from the Tribal World 1st edition [World Art Press for CSUH]

1994
Vol.29 IMAGES OF THE INFINITE (chapter): Stieglitz & American Modernism

1995
Vol.30 IMAGES OF THE INFINITE (chapter): Weber, Hartley, & Cosmic Cubism

1996 IMAGES OF THE INFINITE (chapter):
Vol.31a Dove, O’Keeffe, & Spiritual Naturalism
Vol.31b RHYTHMS & REVERBERATIONS: Multicultural Art in the United States & its Development from the Tribal World. 2nd edition. [World Art Press for HSU]

1997 IMAGES OF THE INFINITE (chapters):
Vol.32a Pelton, Shore, & the Transcendental
Vol.32b Graves, Tobey, & the Oriental
Vol.32c Pollock, de Kooning, & the Nowhere
Vol.32d Rothko, Newman, & the Numinous

1998
Vol.33 IMAGES OF THE INFINITE (chapter): Noguchi & the Nothingness

1999
Vol.34 U.S. ART: A Survey of Three Centuries, the Internet Course [CSU Hayward]

2000
Vol.35 MASAMI TERAOKA, a Profile with a Video of the Show

2001
Vol.36  ANDY WARHOL, a Profile with FLG Conversations

2002
Vol.37 JOSEPH CORNELL, a Profile with a List of Picture-Letters
(exhibition proposal)

2003
Vol.38 SHAMANIC POWER OBJECTS (Native American group)

2004
Vol.39 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, a Profile & a Poster Show

2005
Vol.40 AMERICAN POETS, a Collection of Portrait-Objects

DICKINSON
POE
LANIER
SANDBURG
ELIOT

2006
Vol.41a ERNST & TANNING in the American Southwest with FLG Letters
(exhibition proposal)
Vol.41b BLACK BEAUTY, a draft introduction for a proposed exhibition catalog
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2007
Vol.42 FRIDA KAHLO: Her Image in Popular Culture
(exhibition proposal)
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2008
Vol.43 THE AMERICAN SUBLIME
Chapter 4 of ART IN THE UNITED STATES

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The American Sublime

2009
Vol.44 ABSTRACTION & SURREALISM in the U.S. between the World Wars
Chapter 9 of ART IN THE UNITED STATES

2010
Vol.45 THE PAINTERS OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL
Chapter 10 of ART IN THE UNITED STATES

2011
Vol.46a DEAR WANDA: FLG Letters & Emails with Wanda Corn
over a period of 50 years
Vol.46b REMARKS FOR THE RETIREMENT LUNCH OF WANDA CORN,
Stanford University, Nov. 14, 2009   (Click here for PDF of remarks)
Vol.46b Violin (aka Time & Eternity) – A portrait of John Haberle
[A Gift for Wanda Corn in Celebration of Half a Century of Friendship]:

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Image of shadowbox art.

2012
Vol.47 AMERICAN PRINTS in the collection of FLG:
an Illustrated Checklist