Kertess, Klaus (and) Carter Ratcliff, Paul Schimmel, and Judith Stein — The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism

NY, Rizzoli, 1988. Hardcover. Green cloth with color glossy dustjacket. 195 pp. 38 bw, 65 color plates. This is the first publication to focus on a generation of artists who, during the height of Abstract Expressionism, turned their attention to painting the figure. Major essays by Klaus Kertess, Carter Ratcliff, Paul Schimmel, and Judith Stein, plus brief essays on the thirteen artists--Beauchamp, E. de Kooning, W. de Kooning, Goodnough, Hartigan, Johnson, Katz, McNeil, Muller, Pollock, Porter, Rivers, and Thompson. Includes exhibition history (1950-1965) and bibliography for each artist and exhibition catalogue of 81 works. VG / VG. Card inscribed by Jeffery Hoffeld (who wrote the essay on Jan Muller) to Judith Rothschild laid in front.