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American Drawings and Watercolors in the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
by Henry Adams, et al., 1985. History of Carnegie Museum of Art's collection of American drawings and watercolors, essays on 80 artists, and collection checklist of 491 works from the late eighteenth to late twentieth centuries. 314 pp., color and b&w illlus., paper.

American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove, by William Judson, et al., 1988. Catalogue of the Carnegie Museum of Art's 1988 exhibition of seven video installations by artists Dara Birnbaum, Frank Gillette, Doug Hall, Mary Lucier, Rita Myers, Steina Vasulka, and Bill Viola. 128 pp., color and b&w illus., paper.

American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art, by Diana Strazdes, et al., 1992. Catalogue of the Carnegie Museum of Art's collection of some 400 American paintings and sculpture dating from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century, with an essay on each work, biography of each artist, and complete reference material. Includes a history of the institution and its collections. 552 pp., 38 color and 470 b/w illus., cloth.

Art Ventures: A Guide for Families to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, by Bay Hallowell, illustrations by Edward Koren, 1989. Ten paintings and sculptures by such artists as Degas, Monet, and van Gogh are presented for children, with related activities and recommended further reading. 24 pp., color & b&w illus, paper.

The Beal Collection of American Art, essay by Henry Adams, 1994. Details the formation of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Beal's collection of American art, with a primary focus on modernist drawings and watercolors, much of which came to the museum as gifts and through a major bequest in 1993. 112 pp, color and b&w illus., paper.

The Carnegie Museum of Art Collection Highlights, 1995. Presents over 140 objects from the Museum's permanent collection, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolors, prints, photography, ceramics, silver, furniture, film and video, and architectural subjects, dating from the fourteenth century to the present. 223 pp., color illus., paper.

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.: The Odyssey of a Collector, by Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.; essay by Kay Larson, 1996. Charles Carpenter's personal account of his fifty years of assembling collections of contemporary art, nineteenth-century silver, furniture, and other decorative art objects. 159 pp., color illus., paper.

A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Prints from the Carnegie Museum of Art, by Sandy Kita, et al., 1996. Seventy of the Museum's Japanese woodblock prints from the eighteenth- through twentieth-centuries, illustrated full-page in color with accompanying texts, present ukiyo-e as a tradition of art that reported on its artists' present reality. 167 pp., color and b&w illus., paper.

International Encounters: The Carnegie International and Contemporary Art, 1896–1996, by Vicky A. Clark, et al., 1996. Includes essays on the exhibitions' establishment, the directors and curators who organized them, and the contributions they made to art and culture in the United States. Contains appendices listing exhibition facts and works now owned or previously owned by the Carnegie Museum of Art. 176 pp., b/white illus., paper.

Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 1850, by Charlee Brodsky, et al., 1997. Presents 113 photographs of Pittsburgh, from early processes as daguerreotypes, tintypes, and stereographs, to the work of contemporary photographers. Includes an essay by poet Jan Beatty; the curators' overview of their search for Pittsburgh photographs; a brief history of photography in the city; and an essay on contemporary Pittsburgh-area photography. Contains biographies of over sixty photographers, a chronology, and bibliography. 210 pp., color and duotone illus., paper.

Please direct inquires to Jerry Farber, Book & Media Buyer, Carnegie Museum of Art Store, 412.622.3230

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