George T. M. Shackelford - Böcker

The first comprehensive examination of the painter’s formative years, tracing the evolution of Monet’s early style and personal ambitions that drove the rest of his careerThis elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840–1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career—including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum’s La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide; Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) and The Magpie from the Musée d’Orsay; and The Green Wave and La Grenouillère from the Metropolitan Museum of Art—it features essays by distinguished scholars, focusing on the evolution of Monet’s own distinctive mode of painting. Through the 1860s, the young painter absorbed and transformed a variety of influences, from the lessons of the Barbizon school and his mentor Boudin to the challenges posed by his friends Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. Artistic innovation and personal ambition shaped the work of the celebrated impressionist painter from the very start of his long and illustrious career.Distributed for the Kimbell Art MuseumExhibition Schedule:Kimbell Art Museum(10/16/16–01/29/17)Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco(02/25/17–05/29/17)

A handsome coffee table guide to the celebrated collection of the Kimbell Art MuseumIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, this deluxe volume showcases its world-renowned collection. The book includes engaging texts by Kimbell curators accompanied by new, full-color photographs of more than 250 works from antiquity to the twentieth century. A jewel among American museums, the Kimbell possesses European masterpieces by artists such as Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Diego Velázquez, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse; important collections of Egyptian and classical antiquities; and outstanding works from Asia, Africa, and the ancient Americas. This new guide also features previously unpublished images of the museum’s architecture by Louis I. Kahn and Renzo Piano.Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum

An exploration of the important role that art and artists played in Germany in the first half of the twentieth centuryHighlighting the influences and antipathies among art, politics, identity, and censorship, this book brings together more than seventy painting and sculptures from the distinguished modern art collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, including works by artists such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter, and Christian Schad. The book’s insightful essays explore the histories of the artists, their artistic movements, and German museums through the political upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, providing a sense for the German experience of art through four tumultuous decades. Beginning with the Expressionists and their opposition to the conservative artistic regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the book moves through the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement that typifyied the modern style of the 1920s; the international vanguards and varieties of abstraction of the interwar period; and the strident artistic challenges to war and Nazi repression. Also included are works that help readers contextualize the ambiguous aftermath of World War II. Essays and a detailed chronology enrich the full scope of the brilliant masterworks showcased in the book.Distributed for the Kimbell Art MuseumExhibition schedule:Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX(March 30–June 22, 2025)Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM(August 23, 2025–January 4, 2026)Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN(March 7–July 19, 2026)