Epilonian Books

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Catalog notes

Description

University of New England Gallery of Art, Portland, Maine [Published date: 2008]. Softcover, 64 pp; illustrated throughout with full color reproductions of paintings, photographs, and installation views; 20 cm.

Condition & notes

In very good condition. Glossy illustrated wrappers show light shelfwear; binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition "William Manning: From Here to Eternitime, A Survey of Paintings from the Sixties, Seventies and Two Thousands," held at the University of New England Gallery of Art, Portland, Maine, July 10 - September 7, 2008. Organized with the Jameson Art Group. Includes introductory essays by Anne Broderick Zill and Michael Rancourt, documenting Manning's career from abstract landscapes inspired by Maine's Monhegan Island to geometric and color field explorations of the 2000s. Illustrated with key works such as "Flood Tide #1, Five Islands" (1961), "Blue Over Yellow" (1968), "Monhegan" (1973), and selections from "The Water is Wide" series (2004). Concludes with a comprehensive biographical chronology of solo exhibitions, interviews, teaching positions, embassy commissions, awards, selected group exhibitions and gallery representation.