A place in the sun
Subtitle: the Southwest paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings
By: edited by Thomas Brent Smith ; foreword by Christoph Heinrich ; with contributions by Susanne Boeller [and five others]
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West -- volume 21; Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West -- v. 21.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780806151984
Subjects: In art; Art and society; Criticism and interpretation; History
Description: "In tracing the lifelong friendship and intersecting careers of Ufer and Hennings, the contributors to this volume explore the social and artistic implications of the artists' German heritage and training."--Book cover flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two American Painters in Munich: Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings / Susanne Boeller; title: A Biography of Walter Ufer / Dean A. Porter; title: Walter Ufer's Years of Critical Success: A Painter Characterized by His Time and Place / Thomas Brent Smith; title: The Country He Loved Best: A Biography of E. Martin Hennings / Karen Brooks McWhorter; title: Taos and the Art of E. Martin Hennings / Peter H. Hassrick; title: Glimpsing Modernity: Images of Labor, Passage, and Change / Catherine Whitney; title: That Man Out There in the Mountains: Ufer, Hennings, and the Conflicted Allure of Taos / James C. Moore.