This lavishly illustrated, bilingual art book presents drawings by Ramon Casas in the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at the Northwestern University Library and oil paintings by Casas from private collections and the Art Institute of Chicago.

"Charles Deering and Ramon Casas" follows the development and dramatic dissolution of a three-way friendship that connected the Spanish painter Ramon Casas (1866 1932); the Chicago industrialist Charles Deering (1852 1927), who was a collector and admirer of Casas s work as well as a patron of Northwestern University; and...

Although she is only now just coming into much deserved global renown, the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow has long been recognized in her country as one of the most accomplished female artists of the twentieth century. Collected in this volume for the first time are Szapocznikow's letters to and from the art critic and former director of the Łodź Museum of Art Ryszard Stanisławski, which span from the inception of their relationship through their marriage and divorce.

"Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt" documents Szapocznikow's artistic process and inspirations and is a...