Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné
Hardcover, slipcased set of 3 volumes, 1784 pp., 890 color illus., 1220 b/w
Edited by Ani Boyajian and Mark Rutkoski, essays by William C. Agee and Karen Wilkin, preface by Earl Davis. Copublished with Yale University Press.

Exquisitely designed and produced, Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné is the highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Davis’s paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Documenting the life’s work of this prolific and highly influential artist—who affected every development in American art from second-generation Ashcan realism around 1912 to color field and geometric painting in the 1960s—is a monumental achievement. In this three-volume, slipcased edition, the editors have catalogued 1,749 artworks by the artist, providing extensive documentation and information about each one. The catalogue includes a detailed chronology of Davis’s life, along with a series of essays that consider the artist’s career and significance.

Item# 115
Price $300; Members $270
ISBN 978-0-30010-981-8
ISBN-10 0-30010-981-4

Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge
Paper, 72 pp., 17 color plates with numerous smaller color illus.
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Jennifer R. Gross, presented at the Yale University Art Gallery (January 14–May 18, 2003)
Edited by Jennifer R. Gross, with essays by Suzanne Boorsch, Susan P. Casteras, Jill DeVonyar, Aruna D’Souza, Susan D. Greenberg, Richard Kendall, and Edgar Munhall.

This catalogue celebrates Yale’s expansive holdings of Degas paintings, etchings, drawings, and bronze and wax sculptures. Portraying such modern subjects as ballet dancers, bathers, and horse races, the artist graduated from skilled copyist to influential innovator. “Degas defined the edges of the modern,” writes Gross, “because he worked at the fringe of his society and worked away at the limits of the artificiality and truth telling of his art.”

Item# 14629
Price $16.95; Members $15.25
ISBN 0-300-10004-3

This extensively researched catalogue brings Demuth’s extraordinary “poster portraits” together for the first time. Made in honor of such friends as Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Wallace Stevens, and Eugene O’Neill, these paintings, watercolors, and drawings used objects and wordplay to convey the life, rather than the likeness, of the sitters. Special attention is devoted to the iconic painting I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, Demuth’s portrait of William Carlos Williams.

Item# 2942
Price $15; Members $13.50
ISBN 0-89467-065-4

Dura-Europos: The Ancient City and the Yale Collection
Paper, 42 pp., 34 black-and-white illus.
Susan B. Matheson

Published in 1982, this booklet provides an introduction to the ancient city founded on the Euphrates in 300 B.C. and excavated between 1928 and 1937 by Yale and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters. Most of the Dura collection remained in Syria, but Yale received a richly varied collection of close to 100,000 objects, including the marvelous limestone relief “Mithras slaying the Cosmic Bull.” Matheson provides an intriguing overview of the city’s daily life, religion, and government.

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