Eilshemius (1864-1941) is as much grand obsession as monograph. Weighing in at nine pounds and 768 pages, Stefan Banz’s book about the American painter Louis M. 29 and coming to New York in May, should delight its catalog presents a vanished world. The exhibition, at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History through Nov. It also includes an essay by their granddaughter, the art critic Cynthia Nadelman. The catalog details the couple’s acquisitions - including a list of the dealers they bought from and a map of those in Manhattan - and examines their influence on some of Nadelman’s best work. In 1937, its nucleus was purchased by the New-York Historical Society, which has organized the show.
Ranging through six centuries and across 13 countries, it ultimately numbered 15,000 objects, many of which were displayed and open to the public at the Nadelmans’ Riverdale estate in the Bronx. This catalog, and the exhibition that occasions it, chronicles a grand collecting passion while examining one of the cornerstones of folk art study in the United States: the holdings amassed by the Polish-American sculptor Elie Nadelman and his wife, Viola Spiess Flannery, between the world wars. Touch down almost at any point, and you’ll learn something new. Their impeccably detailed, heavily illustrated account proceeds work by work, tracking every aspect of Picasso’s involvement with sculpture, and includes photographs of his studios and of exhibitions of his efforts. Following the exhibition’s division, with each chapter headed by an introduction by Ann Temkin or Anne Umland, the show’s curators, this extravagant timeline is the work of Luise Mahler, an assistant curator at MoMA, and Virginie Perdrisot, curator of sculptures and ceramics at the Musée National Picasso, Paris, with Rebecca Lowery, a fellow in MoMA’s painting and sculpture department.
The Modern’s latest, hefty Picasso catalog is nearly all chronology.
Topping my list is the Museum of Modern Art’s “Picasso Sculpture.” It appeals especially to those who search monographic catalogs primarily for the artist’s chronology. This fall’s crop of outstanding museum exhibitions has been accompanied by some equally exceptional publications.
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