Actually, my copy of the Bouguereau and America catalog still hasn’t come from Amazon, but I was at the Getty Museum today and there it was shining upon the shelf like some delicious and forbidden knowledge. I reached up and grasped it by the spine, plucking it from it’s lofty perch. I, much like Prometheus, bring down fire from Olympus in the form of the exhibition catalog from the Bouguereau and America show currently on display at the Milwaukee Museum of Art and share it here today. If I should be chained to a rock so that an eagle can feast on my liver every day for this, so be it. Worth it.
You can also buy it from Amazon here, with less liver snacking eagle consequences
Here is a video flip through of the book:
The cover of the tome:
and some interior shots
The beautiful back cover
Best purchase I have made so far this year! Here it is on Amazon
The show is going to be in Memphis and San Diego as well. You can read my first about it here: http://www.muddycolors.com/2019/02/bouguereau-and-america/
Thank you!
but why buy it by amazon when you can buy at the museum?
bookshops close because of amazon.
but it looks like a nice catalogue.
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting to see what I assume are cracks in paint on the first print. I do remember seeing a Bouguereau recently that was also quite cracked. Is that common?
A good number of the paintings in this current exhibit are cracking. But In almost all cases it is just the varnish that is cracking, not the paint layer underneath.
Howard, your enthusiasm for Bouguereau is contagious!
I’m always so thrilled to see anything about Bouguereau– glad he has so many fans here at Muddy Colors!!! 🙂
The book is absolutely great. It’s packed with a ton of wonderful info. But I’m quite surprised at the poor quality of a few of the plates in the book. You’ll see what I mean when you see the actual exhibit, Howard. Some images in the book are amazingly accurate in color. Some are very, very off.
I was surprised by the same thing, Jeff. The colors for Nymphs and Satyr are particularly off. I paged through the book right after going through the exhibit and that was a bit of a let down. …I still bought the book, of course! There were several images that were great, and the exhibit itself was AMAZING!