Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an expansive, rugged landscape—the vast western half of Texas, far from the dynamics of urban art communities and large national markets. Without attempting to serve as a comprehensive catalog—impossible considering the breadth of activity in a huge region—the book is a sampler of creative expression. The painters, photographers, installation artists, sculptors, fiber artists, and printmakers in these pages are as distinctive and independent as the solitary place that nurtures them. But they also share common threads: all of these artists came of age during the feminist movement of the 1970s and find the expansiveness and relative isolation of their landscapes an elemental influence. As with Georgia O’Keeffe, herself an early interpreter of the West Texas Plains, the women featured...

Lynwood Kreneck’s screenprints are recognized throughout the world for their imaginative, often humor-filled content, vivid colors, and always superb technical execution. This personal, casual, and straightforward story follows the artist’s rise from a lonely childhood on a South Texas farm to recognition as one of the leading printmakers in the world today. Owning this beautiful book will be a pleasure not only for the insight it gives into Kreneck’s body of work, but also for its fascinating, personal résumé of his life and career.

Among the highlights of this book documenting twenty years in the life and work of a major Texas artist is Watkins’s creation of the double-walled caldron that has become his forte. Offering an extensive...

When a world-famous artist begins to lose her eyesight and puts down her brushes, it is a tragedy. When she starts to paint again, it must surely be a miracle. “What are those colors?” I asked,...

A magnificent full-color book introducing a collection of traditional western Sub-Saharan African art.

American painter Gina Knee (1898-1982) is an important, virtually unacclaimed artist, whose career stretched over five decades and many locations: she worked in the Southwest, the South, California,...

Cowboys, frontiersmen, and Indians live and work in the Southwest that Joe Belt re-creates in a real-life tapestry of mythic proportion.