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Harriet Hosmer: Lost and Found, A Catalogue Raisonné Contemporary artist Patricia Cronin has created a catalogue raisonné of the works of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). This catalogue combines hand painted images with art historical research to create a document that reveals the complexities of Hosmer’s career, reputation and legacy. Hosmer moved to Rome in 1852 and lived among a community of British and American artists and writers, and a circle of learned and well-to-do “independent women.” She had an important career, was praised by critics, won competitive commissions and earned enormous sums for her sculptures. In this unique volume, Patricia Cronin creates a conceptual framework to examine the histories of art and women at the intersection of the ivory tower and the marketplace in the form of a catalogue raisonné. |
37 color reproductions, 104 pp. |
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Patricia Cronin: The Domain of Perfect Affection This exhibition catalogue accompanies a 10-year survey of Cronin’s work that traces her emergence on the New York art scene beginning in the mid-90s with her charged erotic watercolors through her investigations of class with Pony Tales (Sikkema, 1997), Tack Room (White Columns, 1998) and Luxury Real Estate Paintings (Yale University Art Gallery, 2002) to her triumphant ode to gay marriage, Memorial To A Marriage, (Deitch Projects, 2002). Cronin is conceptually rigorous and an overt sensualist, moving fluidly between 19th century art historical forms to merge them with contemporary content. A witty manipulator of Victorian tradition, she employs equestrian and mortuary sculpture as well as animalier and erotic painting to expose ways in which status and desire influence sexuality, gender, age, and class. 21 color reproductions, 44 pp. |
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Patricia Cronin: Memorial To A Marriage 6 color reproductions, 4 pp. Available at info@patriciacronin.net |
