"The Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand presents a selection of the most historically important and visually compelling Japanese prints from a collection of more than 2,500 works spanning the late 17th century to the present day. Many are extremely rare and almost all appear here in an English-language publication for the first time. Noteworthy areas of interest include early actor prints, dating back to the first decade of the 18th ce ..."
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, presented at the Portland Art Museum October 6, 2012/January 6, 2013."
"The Stroganoffs were among Imperial Russia's wealthiest and most influential families. Their collection of art, antiquities, and decorative objects, assembled over five centuries, was rivaled only by the holdings of the tsar.
This book, the companion volume to a major traveling exhibition, reassembles masterworks of the Stroganoff collection for the first time since the 1917 Revolution. The more than 200 objects showcased here are extra ..."
The Lipton Collection Antique English Silver Designed for the Serving of Tea by PortlandArtMuseum Hardcover, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-82495-2, ISBN: 1-258-82495-7
The Lipton Collection Antique English Silver Designed for the Serving of Tea by PortlandArtMuseum Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2013 by Literary Licensing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-258-82615-4, ISBN: 1-258-82615-1
"Catalog Of Exhibition, February 5 To March 7, 1954, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon."
"Oversized book to accompany the "Imperial Tombs of China" exhibit in the United States. It is extraordinarily rich in content and the broadest scope among the great exhibitions of cultural relics that China has sponsored abroad during the past decade. The more than two hundred objects exhibited are cultural treasures selected from twenty-two institutions in nine provinces and cities in China. They are a feast for the eyes that will deli ..."
"Covers Milton Avery to Tom Wesselman alphabetically via the major French 19th Centuryartists (Corot, Degas, Delacroix, et al), Impressionists and Post ..."
"A lovely volume, being the catalog of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum. Its subject is the golden age (roughly 1780 to 1800) of what the Japanese call ukiyo-e , a term that embraces, but is not limited to, what in the West are simply called Japanese prints. In addition to the exhibition pieces (illustrated in color and b&w) and their accompanying textual description and explication, are five major essays on the artists, the ..."
"One of the premier sculptors of her generation in the Northwest, Hilda Morris (1911-1993) lived her artistic life in the center of the region's circle of avant-garde painters, sculptors, poets, and musicians. This is the first book to document her half-century-long career and presents Morris's highly individual abstract sculptures against the backdrop of artistic developments during the second half of the twentieth century. A part of t ..."
Museums as Agents of Change A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (American Alliance of Museums) by Mike Murawski, Michael Murawski Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2021 by American Association Of Museums, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0894-9, ISBN: 1-5381-0894-1
Hesse A Princely German Collection by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, PortlandArtMuseum Hardcover, 287 Pages, Published 2005 by PortlandArtMuseum ISBN-13: 978-1-883124-21-2, ISBN: 1-883124-21-2
"The term "Hessian" evokes the 18th-century German soldiers engaged by the British to fight in the American War of Independence. Few outside of Germany know of the noble family that has led the state of Hesse since the 16th century and continues to this day. This publication examines the family's vast art collections and draws from unpublished letters, photographs, and documents to record a chapter of European history never before writte ..."