CHUCK CLOSE
1998 · NY
by STORR, Robert
NY: MOMA, 1998. 4to, pp. 224. Bibliography, exhibition history. With essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye. Heavily illustrated, much in color. Paper wraps. A nice copy. 113 color plates and 75 b/w illustrations - published to coincide with the 1998-1999 retrospective American showings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hirshorn Museum in Washington,D.C. and the Seattle Art Museum and the 1999 showing at the Hayward Gallery in London, England, of portraits by American artist Chuck Close (b.1940), incl. those of Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, Lorna Simpson and Robert Rauschenberg - essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye - interview with Robert Storr - plates -. (Inventory #: 37225)