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Issue Date: FEBRUARY 1986; VOLUME 50, ISSUE 523
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: Special Issue: STILL LIFES. Front Cover: Rookwood Still Life With Checkerboard Cloth, by Elizabeth Osborne, 1983, watercolor, 371/2 x 49. Collection Mr. and Mrs. James A. Cooper. Courtesy Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York. Photo courtesy Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York.

FEATURES:
A COMPARISON BETWEEN STILL-LIFE COMPOSITIONS THROUGH HISTORY by Hilton Brown. In this article, Professor Hilton Brown selects four pairs of still-life pictures to demonstrate how artists throughout history have approached the subject matter.

A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFES by the Editors. In this article, American Artist offers an exciting sampling of the best still-life work from around the country.

STUDYING PICTORIAL COMPOSITION by Jack Beal. Beal, one of the most important contemporary realists working today, advocates compositions that contain energetic movement of shapes, spaces, and color. In this article, he diagrammatically analyzes historic paintings for these qualities.

AUTOCRATIC AND DEMOCRATIC STILL LIFES by Wolf Kahn. The selection and arrangement of inanimate objects within a picture can represent social and political ideas. Here, Kahn, an internationally known artist, describes the autocratic or democratic points of view of the still-life paintings reproduced in this article.

THE WATERCOLOR PAGE: CAROLYNN RED WINE GEER This Maryland artist won major awards for her large, highly detailed still-life paintings. Here, she describes the materials and techniques used in making these impressive paintings.

DEPARTMENTS:
LETTERS. EDITORIAL. ART MART. COMING IN MARCH. ART BOOKS. CASUAL COMMENTARY.
PSYCHOLOGY OF ART by Betty Kronsky.
TECHNICAL PAGE by Prof. Clifford T. Chieffo.
BULLETIN BOARD. EXHIBIT CATALOGS. INDEX TO ADVERTISING.
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