Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning

by Burgard, Timothy Anglin

• ISBN13: 9781555952358
• ISBN10: 1555952356
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd

Summary

The first comprehensive overview of the paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks of Lobdell, San Francisco Bay area teacher and important figure in the development of West Coast abstract expressionist painting.

Author Biography

Timothy Anglin Burgard is the Ednah Root Curator of American Art, and Curator-in-Charge, American Art Department, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Walter Hopps is Adjunct Senior Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum, and Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, The Menil Collection, Houston Bruce Nixon, an independent scholar, has written extensively about contemporary California artists. A former editor-in-chief of Artweek, he received his M.F.A. from Mills College. Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator-in-Charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Bruce Guenther is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Chief Curator, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Anthony Torres is an art critic and independent curator. He holds Master of Arts degrees in Art Education from Ohio State University, and in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His exhibition reviews and essays have appeared in Art Papers, Artweek, New Art Examiner, and other publications

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
Beyond Words: The Hand of Humanity	p. 1
Paintings and Graphics from 1948 to 1965	p. 9
A Wonderland of His Own	p. 29
The Drawing Process	p. 179
Every Thursday Night	p. 191
The Life of the Hand	p. 229
Negotiating Space: The Sketchbooks	p. 279
Illustrated Chronology	p. 301
List of Illustrations	p. 387
Biography	p. 397
Bibliography	p. 401
Selected Public Collections	p. 405
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