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FALL BOOKS 2016 See our Spring 2016 catalog for backlist titles New Releases New Releases Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints Birds & Beyond: The Prints of Maurice R. Bebb Essay by Carmen Vendelin More than 60 full-color reproductions Edited by Cori Sherman North Contributions by Jim Harbison, John R. Mallery, and Cori Sherman North Two black-and-white photographs 260 pp., 121/8 x 9 in. Includes Essay, Index of Artworks Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket A255 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7557-8 More than 220 full-color reproductions $29.95 US ($39.95 Canada) More than 20 photographs Available September 2016 Includes Essays, Chronology, Catalogue of Prints, Index of Prints 96 pp., 11 x 9 in. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carmen Vendelin is curator of art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Since joining the curatorial staff in July 2014, she has curated Hunting + Gathering (2014), Colors of the Southwest (2015), O’Keeffe in Process (2015), Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts (2016), and Finding a Contemporary Voice: The Legacy of Lloyd Kiva New and IAIA (2016). Vendelin was previously curator of art at La Salle University Art Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and before that worked at the Newark Museum, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, and the Art Institute of Chicago. • The first monograph of Krasin’s work, Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints reproduces more than sixty of the artist’s prints from the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. • Admirers of Japanese woodblock prints and the woodcuts of Santa Fe artist Gustave Baumann will enjoy seeing how those works influenced Krasin’s aesthetics. 2 Kate Krasin (American, 1943–2010) was a master of the silkscreen print. Her highly refined work proved that silkscreen, or serigraphy, was not just a medium for photo-transfer T-shirts or simple graphic designs in flat colors. For a single print she might use as many as forty successive screens, all cut by hand, to create a detailed, textured work of art. Krasin studied the work of Japanese woodblock print artists and fellow Santa Fe woodcut artist Gustave Baumann. She, however, preferred the “dance” of silkscreen: the process of drawing the sketches, cutting the stencils, formulating the colors, printing by hand. She diluted inks and layered colors to create transparent, ethereal beauty. Drawn to the southwestern landscape as subject again and again, she felt an affinity for her native New Mexico. “We happen to live in a landscape that is just fraught with color—red rock, turquoise chamisa, pink and maroon earth—it’s everywhere, so that walking here can make me high. And in New Mexico there’s a definite ancient feeling to the land, a sense of civilizations that have gone before, a pervasive quality that’s sometimes enough to make my hair stand on end. I want that mystery, as much as I can put it in a straight landscape. I try to make pictures of mystery—not just mountains, but rather the feeling, the meaning, of the Earth.” Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints includes more than sixty of the artist’s prints in full color. Author Carmen Vendelin brings forth the voices of Krasin’s friends; her former husband, artist Peter W. Rogers; and David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek, who so appreciated her abilities and aesthetics that they represented her in their photography gallery. CALL TOLL-FREE: 800 227 1428 • WWW.POMEGRANATE.COM A261 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7625-4 $50.00 US ($70.00 Canada) Available September 2016 • Fans of Norma Bassett Hall and J. Fenwick Lansdowne will find themselves at home with Bebb’s work. • Catalogue raisonné published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition Birds & Beyond: The Prints of Maurice R. Bebb; Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery; Lindsborg, Kansas; August 6–October 23, 2016. 19018 NE PORTAL WAY, PORTLAND OR 97230 Artist Maurice Robert Bebb (American, 1891–1986), renowned for the prints of American birds he produced over five decades, didn’t turn to printmaking until later in life. Looking back, he mused, “I wanted to draw and paint for years and years before I had the nerve to dirty a piece of paper.” Largely self-taught, Bebb established a national reputation as an exceptional etcher. He created more than two hundred print designs and produced prints for the Chicago Society of Etchers, the Prairie Print Makers, and the Print Makers of California. Bebb looked to other printmakers for guidance and inspiration, maintaining long friendships with etchers Charles Capps, Arthur Hall, Leon Pescheret, and F. Leslie Thompson. He took notes of their advice and of his own experiments with etching plates, and he kept meticulous records of his print editions. Many of his “printing keys” have provided the underlying structure for this catalogue raisonné. In Birds & Beyond: The Prints of Maurice R. Bebb, former Bebb student Jim Harbison writes a warm-hearted account of making prints in the artist’s home studio. Cori Sherman North, curator to the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, details a history of printmaking before 1950, setting the stage for Bebb’s work. And John R. Mallery, a collector of Bebb’s prints, provides a brief biography of the artist. 3 New Releases New Releases Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper The Weather Works Charley Harper Introduction by Roger Caras Foreword by Brett Harper Mike Wilks 132 pp., 111/4 x 111/4 in. Full-color illustrations throughout Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket A256 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7538-7 More than 110 full-color reproductions $17.95 US ($23.95 Canada) 32 pp., 8 x 12 in. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket A244 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7229-4 Available September 2016 $50.00 US ($60.00 Canada) Here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a guided tour of the Weather Works, a unique sprawling factory where the weather is made. Open this enchanting volume and wander through Mike Wilks’s atmospheric wonderland. Visit chamber after chamber, each filled with fascinating machinery dutifully churning out the weather in all its variations. Skate through the ice and sleet compartment, and sweat through the burning-hot halls where liquid sunshine bubbles in vats. Marvel at the revolutionary wonders being wrought in Research, and bask in the radiant colors of Rainbow Hall. Notice how the guide grows visibly older and more harried as the tour progresses, and keep a sharp eye on the mysterious pet, who seems intent on wreaking havoc! Charming and challenging, The Weather Works is a metaphorical epic of finely interwoven art and verse, destined to earn a place as a classic illustrated work for readers of all ages. Available September 2016 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charley Harper’s paintings and prints have been published by a variety of nature- and conservation-oriented organizations. His work has been featured in Ford Times magazine (1948–1982); on posters for the National Park Service, the Audubon Society, and many other conservation organizations; and in several books, including Pomegranate’s Harper Ever After: The Early Work of Charley and Edie Harper (2015), Charley Harper Nature Discovery Series (2013, 2014), and three new board books: Charley Harper’s Animal Alphabet, Charley Harper’s Count the Birds, and Charley Harper’s Book of Colors. Presenting more than 110 serigraphs accompanied by intriguing, pun-filled captions, this new, revised edition of Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper pays homage to one of America’s most beloved artists. Charley Harper (1922–2007), with his masterly use of simple geometric shapes, patterns, and vivid colors, distilled the essence of each bird, bug, otter, raccoon, or elephant he painted to its most important details. He called his style of painting minimal realism. “Instead of trying to put everything in when I paint, I try to leave everything out. . . . I reduce the subject to the simplest possible visual terms without losing identity, thereby enhancing identity.” Harper’s approach to depicting the natural world is both sophisticated and fun. His works—especially those of cardinals and ladybugs—have become icons of wildlife art. Originally published in 1994 and long out of print, this new edition of Beguiled by the Wild presents—exclusively—all of the serigraphs Charley Harper produced from 1968 to 2007. Fans of Harper will be happy to see, along with several new images, almost all of their favorites from the original edition. The original essays by Roger Caras and Charley Harper are joined by a new foreword from the artist’s son, Brett Harper. • New edition exclusively features serigraphs. • Last published in 1994. • Witty text written by Charley Harper accompanies his artworks. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mike Wilks (British, b. 1947) began his artistic career at age thirteen when he won a scholarship to art school. He ran a successful graphic design business for five years before he sold it and began writing and illustrating books in 1975. He rocketed to fame following publication of The Ultimate Alphabet in 1986; the puzzle book was a worldwide best seller. After eight illustrated books, he established himself as a novelist with The Mirrorscape Trilogy, a fantasy adventure series. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and many private collections have acquired Wilks’s drawings and paintings. Wilks lives in London. • Original edition published in 1983. • Follows Pomegranate’s 2015 release of Wilks’s The Ultimate Alphabet: Complete Edition. • Jigsaw puzzles, notecards, and more Wilks products are among Pomegranate's best sellers. 4 CALL TOLL-FREE: 800 227 1428 • WWW.POMEGRANATE.COM 19018 NE PORTAL WAY, PORTLAND OR 97230 5 New Releases New Releases Bertram and His Fabulous Animals The Colors of Ancient Egypt By Paul T. Gilbert Pictures by Minnie H. Rousseff and Barbara Maynard By Amy Mullen 152 pp., 6 x 71/2 in. Board book Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket Fully illustrated 70 illustrations Item No. A259 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7541-7 A257 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7539-4 $10.95 US ($13.95 Canada) $24.95 US ($32.95 Canada) The yellow belly of a toothy green crocodile. The gold in Nefertiti’s headdress. The sweetly simple designs in this board book will help little ones learn their colors while dipping a toe into the history and culture of ancient Egypt. 24 pp., 7 x 6 in. Available September 2016 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Paul T. Gilbert (1876–1953) was, for the first half of the twentieth century, a career newspaperman, most notably for the Chicago Evening Post. During his years as a columnist and feature writer, Gilbert interviewed many celebrities of the day and, as a lifelong circus enthusiast, took on stints as a circus acrobat, animal trainer, and clown. In the early 1930s he created the Bertram stories, which he modeled after family and friends, including his wife, Ilse, and their two sons, Paul Jr. and Peter. Child Life magazine published nearly seventy of the now-classic tales. Little Bertram, he’s always wishing he had his very own fabulous animals— creatures you only hear about in stories or read about in books. And lucky for Bertram, they seem to appear right in front of him! Last time we visited Bertram, his funny animals were awfully busy causing mayhem for him and his mamma. These days he’s a little older, and he’s busy hunting for buried treasure with the help of a griffin, hatching a baby dinosaur from its egg, soaring over his town with a roc, and palling around with a miki-miki (an animal whose diet is entirely filled with candy). His old friends Ginny Banning and George Fish help him along the way, joining in the fun and trouble. His mamma is still as baffled by Bertram as ever. Baby Sam gets caught up in the chaos once again. And his daddy is there to save the day, when he gets back from business in Omaha, of course. Author Paul T. Gilbert has filled Bertram and His Fabulous Animals, first published in 1937, with ten tales of Bertram’s imaginative antics. Drawings by Minnie H. Rousseff and Barbara Maynard illustrate his adventures with a dragon, griffin, squeazle-weasel, unicorn, mermaid, anting-anting, dinosaur, roc, and miki-miki, as well as everyone’s favorite winged horse, Pegasus. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amy Mullen is a self-taught digital illustrator with a penchant for creating charming “no fuss” designs for children. She is a graduate of Sweet Briar College, Virginia, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Owls & Loons Inuit Art from Cape Dorset Text by Zoe Burke See Bertram and His Funny Animals on page 9. 24 pp., 7 x 6 in. Board book Fully illustrated A260 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7542-4 “Vivid characters and offbeat adventures . . . tempered with common sense and warm, hearthside humor. Bertram is every reader’s Every-kid.” $10.95 US ($13.95 Canada) This read-aloud board book presents rhyming couplets by Zoe Burke accompanied by ten intriguing prints of owls and loons, brightly colored and full of fun. —Malcolm Whyte, founder of the Cartoon Art Museum (b. 1933) ABOUT THE ARTISTS In the Canadian territory of Nunavut, Inuit artists at the Cape Dorset printmaking studios share their culture with the world through art. The Inuit treasure their language and stories, which often feature owls, loons, and other birds of the Arctic. • Originally published in 1937. • Bertram, Baby Sam, Ginny, and George are back in this rollicking follow-up to Pomegranate’s Bertram and His Funny Animals. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Zoe Burke is the author of the Nature Discovery Book series and board books featuring art by Charley Harper (PomegranateKids). 6 CALL TOLL-FREE: 800 227 1428 • WWW.POMEGRANATE.COM 19018 NE PORTAL WAY, PORTLAND OR 97230 7 Recently Released Recently Released The Space Within: Inside Great Chicago Buildings Kazuyuki Ohtsu Patrick F. Cannon Photographs by James Caulfield 80 pp., 103/4 x 81/2 in. Essay by Bob Hicks Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket 320 pp., 113/4 x 9 in. More than 50 full-color reproductions Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket Includes Index of Artworks by Kazuyuki Ohtsu More than 360 full-color photographs A250 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7439-7 A242 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7205-8 $24.95 US ($32.95 Canada) $65.00 US ($80.00 Canada) For forty years Kazuyuki Ohtsu (Japanese, b. 1935) served as assistant to Kiyoshi Saito, a woodblock artist at the forefront of the sōsaku hanga movement and a man Ohtsu revered as “Master.” Breaking with the traditional division of labor practiced by the shin hanga (new prints) artists, the sōsaku hanga (creative prints) artists handled every step of production—painting the original pictures, carving the woodblocks, and printing the images. Saito and Ohtsu worked as a team, if an unequal one. Ohtsu seemed content to stay in the background as their relationship deepened. Eventually, he began making his own prints. What Ohtsu created under his own name is a fascinating blend of old and new, a reinvigoration of traditional topics with contemporary techniques. Ohtsu’s prints are poetic contemplations, drawing us into lovely, tranquil scenes of natural beauty and harmony. The more than fifty images presented in this book convey a sense of the universe slowed down, of moments when things come together in a fine stillness and life aligns. They are what you feel when you stop and pay attention and simply let your surroundings sink in. For the first time, the interiors of some of the Chicago area’s greatest buildings, designed by celebrated architects, are brought together and featured in truly stunning original photographs. These Chicago-area homes, religious spaces, and commercial and public structures give visual meaning to Frank Lloyd Wright’s belief that “the space within becomes the reality of the building.” Beginning with the Clarke House of 1836 and continuing to the present, every type and style of building is presented. Famous residences such as Wright’s Robie House and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House are here, but so are more modest (and not so modest) homes by Walter Burley Griffin, George Washington Maher, and Paul Schweikher. Text by author Patrick F. Cannon discusses each building’s architecture, architect, and place in history. James Caulfield, a noted architectural photographer, leads a visual tour into both the intimate and grand interiors of the Chicago area’s finest buildings. While many of these architectural masterpieces are open to the public, others can be seen only here. Robert Rahway Zakanitch Bertram and His Funny Animals David Pagel and John DeFazio 180 pp., 91/2 x 11 in. 8 Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket By Paul T. Gilbert Pictures by Minnie H. Rousseff 104 full-color reproductions and 8 photographs 140 pp., 6 x 71/2 in. Includes Chronology and Index of Artworks Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket A243 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7263-8 More than 70 illustrations $50.00 US ($60.00 Canada) A251 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7372-7 To Robert Rahway Zakanitch, life is full of ordinary miracles and the boundless beauty of humanity, which he expresses on paper and canvas in what essayist David Pagel calls “a wild collision between freewheeling bohemian abandon and settled-down domestic sociability.” Zakanitch began to paint seriously amid the 1960s culture of artistic intellectualism, when beauty was out of fashion and Modern Art seemed bent on excluding rather than including its audience. After exploring Formalism and Abstract Expressionism, Zakanitch began painting what he described as “gestural things and patterns that were anathema to Modernism. Things that I didn’t quite understand but felt good to me.” He wanted to get back to the human rather than pursue the abstract. He wanted to reclaim beauty. By the 1970s Zakanitch had reached critical acclaim as a fine artist and as a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement. More recently, Zakanitch has used line, form, color, composition, and scale—especially scale—to create accessible, visually rich paintings. He wields his pencils and brushes with undeniable authority but invites viewers into his artistic process by allowing visible erasures, drips of paint, glimpses of gridwork and support materials, and bits of hand-lettering. $24.95 US ($32.95 Canada) CALL TOLL-FREE: 800 227 1428 • WWW.POMEGRANATE.COM Little Bertram, he’s always bringing home the most extraordinary pets, usually after asking his mamma for permission first, of course. But who ever heard of cutting holes in the ceiling for a giraffe? Or running from a dangerously ticklish rhinoceros? If only Bertram would bring home a dog or a cat or even a turtle instead, he might not find himself in such predicaments. And his mamma—my, is she frazzled! Author Paul T. Gilbert, who happened to have a son just like Bertram, first imagined these pet-ownership mishaps as bedtime stories. Bertram and His Funny Animals became a book in 1934. Now it’s back in a new edition, and this time a troublesome camel joins the original’s mischievous menagerie! Children will love Bertram’s cackle-inducing dilemmas and the sweet drawings by Minnie Rousseff, and parents will delight in tales filled with the charming foibles of childhood. Assisting Bertram in his misadventures are his well-behaved little brother, Baby Sam, and friends Ginny and George. Aunt Ella and Great-Aunt Jane reliably offer their disapproval. Neighbor Mrs. Cree is appropriately nosy. Bertram’s mamma, well, she means well. And Bertram’s daddy always manages to save the day (that is, when he gets back from business in Omaha). 19018 NE PORTAL WAY, PORTLAND OR 97230 9 Recently Released Recently Released CatBook Back in Print! B. Kliban Text by Zoe Burke Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective Michael Babcock Foreword by Angeles Arrien 24 pp., 7 x 6 in. Board book 272 pp., 91/4 x 121/4 in. Fully illustrated Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket A252 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7371-0 More than 200 reproductions of her paintings $10.95 US ($13.95 Canada) A254 • ISBN 978-0-7649-1030-2 B. Kliban’s high-spirited Cats play piano, eat ice cream, and dance the hula on the pages of this board book, purrfectly accompanied by Zoe Burke’s rhyming text. $65.00 US ($85.00 Canada) 2nd Printing Susan Seddon Boulet (American, b. Brazil, 1941–1997) lived in search of the magnificent. As a child growing up on a Brazilian farm, she developed an abiding affection for animals, making them her first artistic subjects. From these simple roots, creating art became central to her life. Boulet developed a unique style, an inspired vision suffused with detail, texture, and color. Her artwork reflects her innermost journey, beginning with fairy tales and evolving into powerful archetypal figures that welled up from what Carl Jung once called “the deepest springs of life.” Boulet is known for her portraits within portraits—explorations of dreams, visions, and spiritual symbols. For these paintings she drew inspiration from folklore and myth as well as shamanic and Native American traditions. This retrospective recounts her artistic development and celebrates her extraordinary personal journey. Back in Print! Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey Flowers Grow All in a Row By Lisa Houck Scott A. Shields and Patricia Trenton 24 pp., 7 x 6 in. 272 pp., 101/2 x 12 in. Board book Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket Fully illustrated 120 full-color reproductions and over 50 black-and-white photographs and drawings A253 • ISBN 978-0-7649-7446-5 A203 • ISBN 978-0-7649-6053-6 $10.95 US ($13.95 Canada) $60.00 US ($75.00 Canada) This board book blooms and buzzes with Lisa Houck’s white-line woodcuts and rhyming text. While the garden grows, little ones can count the flowers—adding in two butterflies and a bug. They’ll have fun learning their numbers, 1 to 10. Exhibition catalogue 3rd Printing One of the most gifted of the historic California plein-air painters, Edgar Alwin Payne (1883–1947) utilized the animated brushwork, vibrant palette, and shimmering light of Impressionism, but his powerful imagery was unique among artists of his generation. While his contemporaries favored a more idyllic representation of the natural landscape, Payne was devoted to subjects of rugged beauty. Largely selftaught, he found inspiration and instruction in nature itself. His majestic, vital landscapes are imbued with an internal force and an active dynamism. An avid traveler, Payne was among the first painters to capture the vigor of the Sierra Nevada, and his travels through the Southwest resulted in equally magnificent depictions of the desert. In Europe he rendered the towering peaks of the Alps and the colorful harbors of France and Italy. His quest to convey the “unspeakably sublime” won him widespread acclaim—one critic called him a “poet who sings in colors.” Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey presents more than 125 reproductions of Payne’s paintings, drawings, and decorative arts, as well as rarely seen photographs from the artist’s travels and selections from his personal collection of compositional studies. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lisa Houck (American, b. 1953) expresses her love of nature through a kaleidoscope of color, pattern, and texture. Houck’s creations are part of public and private collections, notably those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Children’s Hospital, where her art brings joy to children and adults alike. 10 CALL TOLL-FREE: 800 227 1428 • WWW.POMEGRANATE.COM 19018 NE PORTAL WAY, PORTLAND OR 97230 11 19018 NE Portal Way Portland OR 97230 2016 Fall Books Pomegranate’s mission is to invigorate, Don’t forget Pomegranate’s holiday books! illuminate, and inspire through art. CatChristmas B. Kliban 48 pp., 5 x 6 in. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket Over 40 color cartoons and paintings A634 • ISBN 978-0-7649-2108-7 $12.95 US ($14.95 Canada) 4th printing The Twelve Terrors of Christmas John Updike Drawings by Edward Gorey 32 pp., 41/4 x 53/4 in. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket Over a dozen black-and-white illustrations A128 • ISBN 978-0-7649-3710-1 $9.95 US ($11.95 Canada) Not available in the UK 15th printing Charley Harper’s A Partridge in a Pear Tree 28 pp., 7 x 5 in. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket 14 full-color reproductions A236 • ISBN 978-0-7649-6851-8 $9.95 US ($11.95 Canada) Pomegranate’s mission is to invigorate, illuminate, and inspire through art. Pomegranate Communications, Inc. 19018 NE Portal Way, Portland OR 97230 800 227 1428 • 503 328 6500 Fax 800 848 4376 • 503 328 9330 www.pomegranate.com Catalog contents © 2016 Pomegranate Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Prices and availability subject to change. Pomegranate books are available from the following international distributors: Canada Canadian Manda Group 664 Annette Street Toronto, Ontario M6S 2C8 855 626 3222 • Fax 888 563 8327 info@mandagroup.com UK and mainland Europe Pomegranate Europe Ltd. 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PomegranateKids® is an imprint of Pomegranate Communications. PomegranateKids products are phthalate free; printed with nontoxic, soy-based inks; and CPSIA compliant. CABOOK2 2016 Printed in USA