MAHS Publications
A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections:
Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings
Brepols/Harvey Miller Publishers announces the publication of the latest in the series of MAHS-sponsored studies of drawings from Midwest collections: Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings, 2 vols., ed. by Edward J. Olszewski, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008, 628 pp. This two-volume corpus of drawings in midwestern collections contains entries on 471 drawings in forty museums from a canvas of 75 institutions between Ohio and Oklahoma, with entries written by sixteen scholars (MAHS members). Volume II of Italian Drawings illustrates all 471 works, and also includes 35 comparative illustrations plus 18 color illustrations. Artist, Collections, and Provenance indices make the set a useful referfence tool.
MAHS members can purchase the two-volume set at a 40% discount. The next part of the sixteenth-century study, Northern European Drawings, is in preparation. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings is the second publication in the MAHS publication series. The first (see below) is a study of thirty European drawings from the fifteenth century.
To order:
MAHS members:
Contact Laura Gelfand, MAHS Treasurer, at lauragelfand@mac.com.
Non-members:
Ordering information can be found on the following Web sites:
- Brepols/Harvey Miller Publishers:
http://www.brepols.net/catalogue/index.jsp?mpk=20295&art=1964181 - David Brown Book Co.:
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/62230//Location/DBBC
Drawings in Midwestern Collections, Volume 1: Early Works
This first volume of Drawings in Midwestern Collections offers a full listing of old master drawings from collections throughout the Midwest. Thoroughly researched, this important reference book introduces a corpus of the rarest of European drawings through the year 1500.
Each of the thirty entries in this volume is written by a scholar who has immediate access to the artwork itself and who is a specialist in the art of that period. In addition to basic information about the work, the authors have commented on each drawing's artistic significance and on problems surrounding it. Included also are reproductions of the drawings as well as numerous illustrations of comparable works from other American and European collections.
Drawings in Midwestern Collections presents previously unpublished technical information on many of the drawings, argues for the new attribution of several of them, provides an up-to-date summary of scholarship on each work, and, taken as a whole, provides insight into the diversity of the holdings in midwestern museums. Published by the University of Missouri Press.
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University of Missouri Press
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