Coming to Light: Avery Gottlieb Rothko--Provincetown Summers 1957-1961 [Hardcover]

Philip Cavanaugh (Author), Sean Avery Cavanaugh (Author), Christopher Rothko (Author), William Scharf (Author), Madeleine Sentner (Author), Justin Spring (Author), Tony Vevers (Author), Edye Weissler (Author), Ann Freedman (Author), E.A. Carmean (Editor), Milton Avery (Author), Adolph Gottlieb (Author), Mark Rothko (Author), Robert Henry (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0970425791 | ISBN-13: 978-0970425799

In the summer of 1957, Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko renewed a friendship that had begun in the late 20s. All three were in Provincetown, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, in the light and by the sea, and over the next few extraordinary summers they interacted, and advanced and accelerated radical new ideas in their individual bodies of work. The Provincetown summers witnessed Avery's largest and most abstract paintings, such as Sunset Sea of 1958, and the development of new directions in Gottlieb's work, including his 1957 paintings Blast II and Blue at Night. This same time marked the darkening of Rothko's palette and, in 1958, the birth of the new forms found in the Seagram Murals and the later paintings of of the Harvard commission. Coming to Light is the first publication and exhibition to focus on the works of this period by each artist.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 107 pages
• Publisher: Knoedler & Company (January 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970425791
• ISBN-13: 978-0970425799
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #648,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin Spring is a New York based writer specializing in twentieth-century American art and culture. His biography SECRET HISTORIAN is a 2010 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a 2010 National Book Award Finalist, an Amazon Top 10 Biography of the Year, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book for 2011,winner of the 2011 Lamda Literary Award in Biography; the winner of the 2011 Randy Shilts Prize in Non-Fiction from the Publishing Triangle; and winner of the 2011 Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Prize of the National Leather Association. It is also an ARTFORUM Top 10 of 2010 pick and a Top 10 Book of the Year for 2010 in the San Francisco Chronicle.

For a full review of SECRET HISTORIAN by Mark Harris in the New York Times Book Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/books/review/Harris-t.html?_r=1&ref=bookreviews

For a feature on Justin Spring's discovery of the Steward Archive, by Patti Cohen in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Justin%20Spring&st=cse

For a slide show in the New York Times about the Steward Archive:
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/.../20100726-secret.html