Books by Patricia Hills
Alice Neel
Writing the first major book on Alice Neel, Patricia Hills put together a text of her conversations with Neel. In the book Neel talks with charm and wit and utter frankness about her 83 years, most of them lived in New York City. Her riveting portraits, wonderful still lives, and stark interiors, as reproduced in...
May Stevens
Patricia Hills's illustrated, intimate conversation with May Stevens gives us an in-depth look at an extraordinary artist, poet, teacher, and activist. Born in 1924 in the Boston suburb of Dorchester, Stevens studies art in Boston, New York, and Paris. Today her major paintings are in many prestigious collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum; the...
Stuart Davis
In a way that was unusual for an artist of his time, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) took his inspiration not only from modern European painting but also from American popular culture. Davis, like other American artists in the early decades of the century, was deeply affected by his encounter with the remarkable accomplishments of the European...
The Painters America
Book/CatalogueThe Painters’ America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910The painters’ America, as reflected in the paintings of rural and urban life between 1810 and 1910, closely corresponded to the growth of the young nation from a simple agrarian society to an industrialized and urban one. It was during this time that artists broke away from the...
Modern Art in the USA
This anthology, edited by Patricia Hills, includes 160 entries of writings and documents by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, and politicians on the issues and controversies of twentieth-century art movements. The topics are organized into seven historic periods, with a summary of each period at the beginning, and then sections, also with summaries, dealing with...
The West as America
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Turn-of-the-Century America
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The Working American
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Jacob Lawrence
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The American Frontier
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Whitfield Lovell
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