Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection

Memphis, Tenn: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2012. Hardcover. VG. Light corners bumping, otherwise clean and unmarked.. Electric red cloth cover, color illus. dust jacket, 131 pp., many color illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2012-2014 exhibitions featuring works from this stunning collection. "Brings together sixty-eight examples of American Scene and modernist painting from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, works that exposed and sometimes celebrated the shared concerns of American painters from every region of the country." (dj) With essays: Tom Joad, Depression-Era American Painting, and the Search for Community / Kevin Sharp -- (Non)sense and Sensibility: Surrealism in 1930s America / M. Melissa Wofle -- "An Internal Expression": The American Abstract Artists and the "Opposing Forces of Modern Life" / Julie Novarese Pierotti. Vivid, vibrant, impressive.