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...