Books by Judith H. Bonner
John Clemmer: A Legacy in Art
by Judith H. Bonner, David Clemmer, John Ed Bradley
Over his eight-decade career, John Clemmer (1921–2014) captivated curators, collectors, and casual art lovers alike with his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. Clemmer was active in a community of artists―centered on the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans―whose work came to define Louisiana modernism. John Clemmer: A Legacy in Art marks the occasion of the artist’s centennial with a survey of his life, work, and enduring influence.
An unassuming and generously spirited man, John Clemmer was a mentor to generations of New Orleans artists. During his time at the Arts and Crafts Club, his tenure on the faculty of the Tulane School of Architecture, and his chairmanship of the Newcomb Department of Art, he arranged exhibitions in the galleries to showcase the work of students, faculty, and emerging as well as established artists. Clemmer was the impetus behind the Smithsonian’s 1985–87 traveling exhibition of Newcomb pottery, An Enterprise for Southern Women, as well as the organizer of the Newcomb Centennial 1886–1986 exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1987.
Distributed for the Historic New Orleans Collection
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 21)
by Judith H. Bonner, Estill Curtis Pennington
From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America's cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin Henry Latrobe's architectural plans for the nation's Capitol, the wares of the Newcomb Pottery, and Richard Clague's tonalist Louisiana bayou scenes. This comprehensive volume shows how, through the decades and centuries, the art of the South expanded from mimetic portraiture to sophisticated responses to national and international movements. The essays treat historic and current trends in the visual arts and architecture, major collections and institutions, and biographies of artists themselves. As leading experts on the region's artists and their work, editors Judith H. Bonner and Estill Curtis Pennington frame the volume's contributions with insightful overview essays on the visual arts and architecture in the American South.
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