Description
Crocker Art Museum, Published 2016. Hardcover, 127 pp.; 26 cm; limited to 750 copies (unnumbered), printed by Continental Colorcraft, Los Angeles; illustrated with color photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. White paper over boards, lettered in black on front and spine, museum name on rear board. Light bumping to lower corners, with a small (1/4 inch) tear to paper at bottom corner of rear board; mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Black endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy pictorial dust jacket with details of three glass works on front and rear; mild shelf wear to edges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Catalog of the exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (July 10 to October 2, 2016), and the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert (November 4, 2016 to March 7, 2017), drawn from the collection of about 300 pieces assembled since 2001 by David Kaplan and Glenn Ostergaard, now promised to the Palm Springs Art Museum. Full-page color plates of each work, with installation views of the couple's Palm Springs home showing the glass alongside their Bay Area figurative paintings. The checklist gives 77 works by 72 artists, among them Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, Marvin Lipofsky, Klaus Moje, Bertil Vallien, Toots Zynsky, Preston Singletary, William Morris, Vaclav Cigler and Claire Falkenstein. Contents: Introduction (Lial A. Jones); An Oasis for Painting and Glass (Tina Oldknow); Glossary of Terms; On Making and Collecting (Richard Whiteley); Millennial Vision (Diana L. Daniels); The Collection; Exhibition Checklist.