Annotated Bibliography

Stark Museum of Art Publications
Bibliography

This bibliography contains works published by the Stark Museum of Art.

Garrigan, John. Southwestern Weaving from the Collection of the Stark Museum of Art. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and

  • H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1981.
  • Exhibition catalogue exploring of the Native American tradition of weaving through examples in the Stark Collection. Includes selected bibliography.

Heltunen, Vicki L. A Mirror Unto Nature: The Printed Art of Natural History.  Orange, TX: Nelda C. and

  • H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1983.
  • Exhibition catalogue exploring the botanical and ornithological illustrated arts of John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, Pieter Casteels, Leonhart Fuchs, and others. Includes selected bibliography.

___. Color, Pattern & Plane: E. Martin Hennings in Taos. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation,

  • 1986.
  • Exhibition catalogue reviewing a career that spanned five decades. Explores the inspiration Earnest Martin Hennings found in the landscape and people of the Taos region. Includes photographs, chronology and selected bibliography.

Hunt, David. Stark Museum of Art: A Guide to the Galleries. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation,

  • 1998.
  • Published on the occasion of the museum’s 20th anniversary this guide features highlights of the Stark Museum’s art collections, including paintings, sculptures, engravings, and textiles. Hunt is a former director of the Stark Museum of Art.

___ Stark Museum of Art: Taos Portfolio. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 2001.

  • Catalogue featuring the works of artists who established an artistic colony in Taos, New Mexico in the early twentieth century. Artists include Bert Greer Phillips, Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, Joseph Henry Sharp, Eanger Irving Couse, William Herbert Dunton and others.

Schimmel, Julie. The Art and Life of W. Herbert Dunton, 1878-1936. Austin: University of Texas Press for the Stark

  • Museum of Art, 1984.
  • Documents the artist’s life as student, commercial artist, and cowboy artist among the Taos Society of Artists. Includes selected bibliography and catalogue of all known works. Schimmel is a former curator of the Stark Museum of Art.

___. Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection 1978. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation,

  • 1978.
  • Catalogue of the Stark Museum’s Western Art collection at the time of its opening in 1978 including engravings, sculptures, and paintings. Includes catalogue entries on each work of art, brief biographies on 70 artists, an introductory essay and selected bibliography. Artists include members of The Taos Society of Artists, John James Audubon, Nicolai Fechin, Paul Kane, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell and others.

Stark Museum of Art, The American and British Birds of Dorothy Doughty. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher

  • Stark Foundation and the Stark Museum of Art, 1978.
  • Collection catalogue detailing the works of England’s ceramic modeller, Dorothy Doughty. The Stark’s collection is a complete set of both the American and British bird series by Doughty. The text notes the artist’s evolution from an untrained modeller to a creator of fine works. Includes catalogue entry on each work of art.

Stark Musuem of Art. The Steuben Glass Collection. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation and the

  • Stark Museum of Art, 1978.
  • Collection catalogue highlighting scenes of Americana as etched in the Steuben Crystal bowls and the history of the glass company itself. The Stark collection is the only known complete set of the series, The United States in Crystal. Includes catalogue entry on each work of art. The United States in Crystal. 41.8/1.

Tyler, Ron. Nature’s Classics: John James Audubon’s Birds and Animals. Orange, TX: Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark

  • Foundation, 1992.
  • Collection catalogue identifying over 200 Audubon related objects including the rare five volume set of Birds of America, first edition copies of all John James and John Woodhouse Audubon publications and nearly 100 family letters. Includes selected bibliography.

Weaver, Bobby D. First Artistic Traditions: The Native American Collection of the Stark Museum of Art.  Orange, TX:  

  • Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1990.
  • Catalogue of the Native American collection of the Stark Museum of Art featuring basketry, textiles, clothing, jewelry and pottery. Objects are from cultures ranging across America including the northwest coast, southwest and eastern woodlands.   

Selected titles may be available for purchase in the Museum Store. For Museum Store information call 409-886-2787 ext. 13.

You can also consult your local library. Books not in the holdings of your local library can often be borrowed through inter-library loan.

Stark Museum of Art, Research Library 712 Green Avenue, Orange, TX 77630. January 2008.
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