Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection - Softcover

Strauss, Cindi

9780300204100: Beyond Craft: Decorative Arts from the Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300204108 ISBN 13: 9780300204100

Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2014

Since the 1960s, Leatrice and Melvin Eagle have acquired decorative arts of the highest quality, beginning with contemporary ceramics and then expanding to works in other mediums produced from the 1940s to the present. Although primarily American in scope, their collection also encompasses significant pieces by acclaimed international artists. This book presents, for the first time, key highlights from the Eagle collection, which was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2010. At the core of the collection are stunning examples of ceramics by groundbreaking California-based artists, such as Robert Arneson, Ralph Bacerra, Viola Frey, David Gilhooly, Ron Nagle, Ken Price, Adrian Saxe, and Peter Voulkos. Also included is furniture by Wendell Castle and Sam Maloof; textile and fiber art by Olga de Amaral, John Garrett, John McQueen, and Cynthia Schira; and jewelry and metalwork by William Harper, Albert Paley, Earl Pardon, and Joyce J. Scott. This catalogue features works by about 40 key artists and an illustrated checklist of about 170 objects in the collection.

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Book Description:

This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases for the first time the work of about forty leading American decorative artists of the mid- to late twentieth century represented in the Eagle collection.

About the Author:

Cindi Strauss is assistant director, programming, and curator of modern and contemporary decorative arts and design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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