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Title: Heightened Realities the Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg
Description: Seattle, WA: Frye Art Museum, 2001. Soft Cover. Exhibition Catalogue Series; B&W and color Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 9 1/4; 25 pages; Softcover has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, some creasing; folded in, not completely cut inner, bottom corner on title page. Cover is teal colored with white lettering. Includes 18 color and b/w pieces by Weisberg, as well as a checklist, at the rear, of the works in the exhibition. Ruth Weisberg is an artist who works primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. She is the Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, havipng previously served as Chair of the Studio Arts Department 1986-87, plus Acting Associate Dean for the School of Architecture and Fine Arts for two years. She received her bachelor and master degrees from the University of Michigan, as well as a Laurea in Painting and Printmaking from the Academia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy. After a year at the S. W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris, she taught at Eastern Michigan University. Recent honors include visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1995, 1994, and 1992; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar 1994; a Senior Research Fulbright for Italy in 1992; School of Art, University of Michigan Distinguished Alumni/AE Award for 1992; the Distinguished Artist of the Year Award, Fresno Art Museum, 1990; President of the College Art Association in 1990-92. As an artist, Weisberg has been a very busy exhibitor, with over sixty solo and 150 group exhibitions. Weisberg's work is included in 50 major museum and university collections, including: the Bibliotheque Nationale of France, Paris; Instituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.. Very Good+ .

Keywords: Art Artists; Women Artists; Jewish Women; Michigan Artists; Michigan Colleges; Ephemera; Collectibles; Exhibition Catalogues; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Art Furniture/Interiors/Decorating Biography/Memoirs/Journals A

Price: US$ 32.50 Seller: Pegasus Books
- Book number: 6487