Publications

Material Journeys
Collecting African and Oceanic Art, 1945–2000

Using the extensive Geneviève McMillan collection as a prism, this book investigates collecting strategies as they intersect with the political...

From the South Seas
Oceanic Art in the Teel Collection

Editorial Reviews “An impressive showcase of 83 diverse sculptures, masks, and shields…[offering] insight into an intriguing culture through...

Art of the Senses
African Masterpieces from the Teel Collection

How the unique “look” of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today...

The Romance of Modernism
Paintings and Sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection

Published in its entirety for the first time, this collection—including sculptures by Rodin, Maillol, and Moore, paintings by Monet, Cézanne, Léger...

Future Retro
Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles

These drawings showcase the beauty and ingenuity of automobile design in the heyday of American manufacture. Whether used to float innovations...

Rhythms of Modern Life
British Prints 1914–1939

The radical styles of Cubism and Futurism, and their impact on the Vorticists and the Grosvenor School. About the Author Clifford S. Ackley is the...

Imperishable Beauty
Art Nouveau Jewelry

“A new, imperishable beauty” is how Henry van de Velde described Art Nouveau, which embraced sensuous forms and vivid symbolism. Imperishable Beauty...

Soviet Textiles
Designing the Modern Utopia

In the 1920s and 1930s, a fascinating experiment took place in the Soviet Union, when a group of designers created household textiles to extol the...

Art of the Japanese Postcard
Masterpieces from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection

More than casual mail pieces, Japanese postcards were often designed by prominent artists and had a visual impact that belied their modest format. Art...

Gauguin Tahiti

A banker and “Sunday painter,” Paul Gauguin (1848‒1903) abandoned kith and kin and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life “in ecstasy, in peace, and...

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Editorial Reviews and Awards

“With gorgeous images and accessible text, [Fashioned by Sargent] is highly recommended for audiences interested in fine art in relation to fashion.”
—Sandra Rothenberg, Library Journal

About Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence: “Accompanied by a catalog that masterfully interweaves historical biography with individual image analysis, the exhibition is a welcome addition to the scholarship devoted to the artist and a unique exploration of systems of artistic influence.”
—Ashley Busby, Art & Antiques Magazine

Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories reveals a rich, complex and often overlooked history of North America as told from individual experiences manifested within the tradition of quiltmaking. The book illustrates how quilts are more than material objects of comfort and aesthetic beauty. They are archives of social, political and cultural histories.”
Art Libraries Society of North America

“In this pandemic year of missing most everything, we’ve been trained to look for silver linings wherever possible. So here’s mine: [Cy Twombly: Making Past Present], which I got a few months back, is gorgeous.”
—Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe

“In these flattened times, Writing the Future conveys motion. The book, a companion to a suspended exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, is about Basquiat, his contemporaries, and early hip-hop culture, but it’s also about the movements and rhythms of New York City—'the work of the subway writers became as optically and optimally omnipresent as the Manhattan skyline,' Greg Tate writes. And in its dynamic blend of art, history, and analysis, it has a movement of its own.”
—Dan Adler, Vanity Fair

About Writing the Future: “To leaf through this prodigy’s oeuvre intermingled with photos of what he called 'just … you know, my friends and stuff'; of their tags brightening storefronts and subway cars, of the boomboxes and leather jackets and reference books they at once desecrated and elevated, is to hold in your hands the record of a place and a time and a togetherness we can only hope one day to experience again.”
—Lauren Christensen, ​The New York Times Book Review

“[Casanova is] one of the flat out best art books of the year. Don’t miss it—you’ll read it like a novel with pictures.”
—Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes podcast

“The handsome volume [Hokusai’s Lost Manga] includes dozens of lively, lovely images, showcasing Hokusai’s skill at capturing movement, in swirling garments, in water, in wind, in bodies in motion at work, spinning pots on a wheel, making paper, washing a horse, trekking up a hill.”
Boston Sunday Globe

“[The Priest, the Prince, the Pasha is] a feat of storytelling that makes ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ look like kid stuff.”
The Wall Street Journal

“[In Holland on Paper, Cliff] Ackley has, in this stunning volume, contributed significantly to the larger project of opening up to the English-speaking world an intriguing chapter in what has until recently been among the best kept secrets of modern art. With the appearance of this splendidly illustrated and valuable book, the secret is out.”
—Joan E. Greer, Art in Print

“The large reproductions in [John Singer Sargent Watercolors], several with accompanying details, offer some of the best viewing of his work in printed form. Seduction will lead to Dazzle.”
—Carl Little, Art New England

”[She Who Tells a Story] may well go down as a landmark in the worlds of contemporary photography and graphic arts. In addition they illuminate the subtle but explosive changes now transforming Middle Eastern societies.”
—John G. Morris