Douglas W. Druick Boeken

This revised and expanded edition of the Essential Guide features 330 works of art, over fifty of them new additions to the book. The entries represent some of the finest pieces from—and were selected with the assistance of—the museum’s eleven curatorial African Art and Indian Art of the Americas, American Art, Ancient and Byzantine Art, Architecture and Design, Asian Art, Contemporary Art, European Decorative Arts, Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Drawings, and Textiles. Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry. This convenient volume offers the reader a generous sampling of the celebrated works of one of the country’s most highly esteemed museums.

Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is one of the best-loved French Impressionists. In this new volume in the Artists in Focus series, Douglas Druick shows 40 of Renoir's works from the Art Institute of Chicago's collection, all reproduced in full color, with numerous comparison illustrations, quotations from the artist, and further insights into his work and life.