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The book features a unique combination of classical archaeological finds and the art they influenced in the Spanish Bourbon Court in Naples, Italy, during the eighteenth century. It also includes sculptures and frescoes from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, material culture from the Temple of Isis at Pompeii, and works from eighteenth-century artists including Angelica Kauffman, Anton Rafael Mengs and Antonio Joli.

Editor: Michael L. Thomas

Hardcover, 192 pages

$65

Valley House Gallery, the gallery of record representing Barnaby Fitzgerald, has produced this thoughtful publication in celebration of the artist’s 2024 exhibition at the Meadows Museum and his retirement from SMU in 2023 as professor emeritus of art. It features not only an essay and catalogue entries by the artist himself, but also a foreword by Meadows Museum director Amanda W. Dotseth and essays by Frederick Turner, Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Dallas, and artist Roger Winter, Fitzgerald’s friend and former SMU colleague.

Design: Kevin Vogel
Softcover, 72 pages
$30

Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections is an opportunity to gather and present images of these privately held works even after the close of its eponymous exhibition. It features an introduction and chronology by editor and exhibition curator Blanca Pons-Sorolla, a preeminent scholar of Sorolla’s work and the artist’s great-granddaughter. Art historian Cristina Domenech has also contributed an essay that offers perspectives on the artist’s popularity among American private collectors past and present, and explores the collecting history of the featured works. The research for this publication is based in part on that conducted for museum’s groundbreaking 2013–14 exhibition Sorolla and America, which was also curated by Pons-Sorolla, and in which Cristina Domenech also contributed an essay.

Editor: Blanca Pons-Sorolla
Contributor: Cristina Domenech
Softcover, 88 pages

$30

During the mid-twentieth century, Spanish abstract artists experienced success abroad yet struggled for recognition at home. In 1966, in an effort to promote Spanish abstraction within Spain, the artist and collector Fernando Zobel (1924-1984) established the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español. He housed his modern collection within the historic Hanging Houses of Cuenca, a town southeast of Madrid that soon became a haven for Spanish artists. Zobel’s museum was the first institution in Spain dedicated exclusively to abstract art as well as the country’s first artists’ museum. The scholarly essays in this richly illustrated volume elucidate the history of this pioneering museum against the cultural and political backdrop of the last decade of the Franco dictatorship. Forty-two outstanding paintings and sculptures by artists such as Eduardo Chillida, Antonio Saura, and Antoni Tapies are reproduced in the catalogue section, accompanied by essays that situate each artwork within the context of the artist’s career. In the Shadow of Dictatorship: Creating the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art represents one of the first major publications in English dedicated to midcentury Spanish abstract art.

Editors: Clarisse Fava-Piz & Amanda W. Dotseth
Contributors: Paula Barreiro Lopez, Clarisse Fava-Piz, Manuel Fontan del Junco, Miranda Saylor, Olivia Turner, Anna Wieck
$65

The latest volume of the Masterpiece in Residence series highlights Diego Velazquez’s portrait King Philip IV of Spain (1644), know colloquially as the Fraga Philip, on loan from The Frick Collection. Celebrating masterpieces of Spanish art in the United States collections, each book in this series focuses on a single work of art on the occasion of its exhibition at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas.

Editors: Amanda W. Dotseth
Essay: Giles Knox
48 pages
$14.95

Meadows Museum: A Handbook of the Collection
Edited by Mark A. Roglán

The guide features over 200 newly written object entries, 235 color illustrations, and references a total of more than 400 individual objects or series of works. Edited by the museum’s director, Mark A. Roglán, the volume contains the contributions of 14 individual authors, many of them alumni of the museum’s pre- or postdoctoral fellowship program who now serve in curatorial and academic positions in the U.S. and Europe, as well as current and former staff from the museum’s curatorial and education departments.

Description: Envisioned in the style of a fashion magazine, this catalog accompanies the exhibition Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje, on display at the Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, from September 19, 2021– January 9, 2022. The exhibition pairs iconic styles of historic, Spanish dress on loan from Spain’s National Museum for Fashion with masterpieces of Spanish art from the Meadows Museum collection. Displayed together, the works not only tell the story of how fashion trends in Spain changed over five hundred years, but also reveal how elements of a country’s history—such as its involvement with global trade or the formation of a national identity – are reflected in its dress. Illustrated with newly commissioned photography by contemporary Spanish photographer Jesus Madrinan this publication allows readers to experience the exquisite detailing of the garments close–up, including handmade lace,
embroidery, and beading.

Authors: Amanda W. Dotseth, Elvira Gonzalez Asenjo
91 pages
$40

Alonso Berruguete: First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain, by C. D. Dickerson III (Author), et al.

Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488–1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he interacted with Michelangelo and other leading artists. In 1518, he returned to Spain and was appointed court painter to the new king, Charles I. Eventually, he made his way to Valladolid, where he shifted his focus to sculpture, opening a large workshop that produced breathtaking multistory altarpieces (retablos) decorated with sculptures in painted wood. This handsomely illustrated catalogue is the first in English to treat Berruguete’s art and career comprehensively. It follows his career from his beginnings in Castile to his final years in Toledo, where he produced his last great work, the marble tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera. Enriching the chronological narrative are discussions of important aspects of Berruguete’s life and practice: his complicated relationship with social status and wealth; his activity as a draftsman and use of prints; how he worked with his many assistants to create his wood sculptures; and his legacy as an artist.

Editors: C.D. Dickerson III, Mark McDonald
$55

El Greco, Goya, and a Taste for Spain: Highlights from The Bowes Museum, by Bernadette Petti (Author), Amanda W. Dotseth (Author), Mark A. Roglán Amanda W. Dotseth (Editor), Mark A. Roglán (Foreword).

Published in conjunction with the exhibition El Greco, Goya, and a Taste for Spain: Highlights from The Bowes Museum, curated by Amanda W. Dotseth and on view at the Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Texas from September 15, 2019 – January 12, 2020.

Authors: Bernadette Petti, Amanda W. Dotseth, Mark A. ROglan
$25

Fortuny: Friends and Followers, co–edited by Meadows Museum Director Mark A. Roglán and Meadows Museum Curator Amanda W. Dotseth, recreates the exhibition’s five sections with full–color reproductions of the exhibited works and thematic introductions by Dotseth. These support an art historical essay by Meadows Curatorial Fellow Daniel Ralston, who locates Fortuny’s life and work within the artist’s milieu and explores his lasting impact on both his contemporaries and later generations of artists. The publication concludes with short biographies of each artist featured within the exhibition.

171 pages, published by Meadows Museum.
Author: Mark A. Roglan, Amanda W. Dotseth
$40

Mark Roglán, Shelley DeMaria

The Meadows Museum’s exhibition Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929–1936 is accompanied by a dazzling new publication that allows readers a closer look into Salvador Dalí’s penchant for painting on a small scale. Edited by the co-curators of the exhibition, Mark A. Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum, and Shelley DeMaria, the Meadows’s curatorial assistant, the volume offers further art historical context for the paintings by covering Dalí’s biography and historical influences; the inspiration he found in the work of other painters, most especially the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer; and the technical processes and materials Dalí used to achieve his masterpieces. DeMaria authors an introductory essay unearthing Dalí’s inclination toward miniaturization and growing identification as a Surrealist, while Roglán’s contribution focuses on Dalí’s decades-long admiration of Vermeer’s small-format works through side-by-side comparisons of paintings by the two artists. An essay by Claire Barry, director of conservation at the Kimbell Art Museum, and Peter Van de Moortel, assistant paintings conservator in the Kimbell Conservation Department, analyzes new technical findings following close examination, technical imaging, and pigment analysis of a core group of works from the exhibition. A full-color catalogue of exhibited works, with entries researched and written by DeMaria, reveals the accumulation of Dalí’s personal and symbolic iconography during the key years covered by the show and places these small paintings in the context of Dalí’s overall body of work. Finally, the publication concludes with an appendix of technical images of twelve of Dalí’s small-format works, many of which are published here for the very first time, with six analyzed by Barry and her team and the remainder generously provided by conservation departments in the United States and Spain. (Hardback, 162 pages.)

The beautifully designed From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum has nearly 100 full-color images and over thirty historical black-and-white images. This one-of-a-kind catalogue brings together historical insight, new research, and artistic photographs to give readers all new access to the important works of modern sculpture at the Meadows Museum. The book’s release was celebrated with a double-lecture event, during which the publication’s author, Dr. Steven A. Nash, founding director of the Nasher Sculpture Center and former director of the Palm Springs Art Museum, and the noted American photographer Laura Wilson shared their experiences working on this unique collaboration.

Memory, Mind, Matter – The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida is the official catalogue for the exhibition of the same name held at the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida (May 13, 2017 – September 24, 2017) and the Meadows Museum, Dallas (February 4, 2018 – June 3, 2018). The show presents the world-renowned Spanish sculptor’s works in iron, alabaster, clay, stone and paper, featuring more than 60 Chillida works. In addition to photographs of the works, the catalogue contains a fascinating overview of the Basque artist’s career, with essays by Nausica Sanchez (archivist, Museo Chillida-Leku) and William Jeffett (curator of exhibitions, Dalí Museum).

(Paperback, 159 pages.)

The impressive series of paintings known as Jacob and His Twelve Sons portrays thirteen life-size figures by Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Painted between about 1640 and 1645, the series depicts figures named in Chapter 49 of the Book of Genesis in which Jacob bestows his deathbed blessings to his sons, each of whom go on to found the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Co-edited by Susan Grace Galassi, senior curator at The Frick Collection; Edward Payne, senior curator of Spanish art at Auckland Castle; and Mark Roglán, director of the Meadows Museum; this publication chronicles the scientific analysis of the series Jacob and His Twelve Sons led by Claire Barry at the Kimbell Art Museum’s Conservation Department and also provides focused art historical studies of the works. Essays cover the iconography of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the history of the canvases, and Zurbarán’s artistic practices and visual sources. With this comprehensive and varied approach, the book constitutes the most extensive contribution to the scholarship on one of the most ambitious series by this Golden Age master.

This book is the first complete catalogue raisonne of the drawings of Jusepe de Ribera (Jativa, Valencia, 1591-Naples, 1652). A follower of Caravaggio, he trained in Rome and subsequently became a painter to the viceregal court in Naples. Ribera’s drawings played a central role in his art. This catalogue raisonne reveals his impressive technical skills, equally evident in his use of pen and ink, red chalk and wash, while emphasizing the remarkable range of the subjects he depicted.

The main text by Gabriele Finaldi explores specific themes within Ribera’s activity as a draughtsman, from his sources, signatures and the most prominent collectors of his drawings to his preparatory studies and the variety of his subject matter. This text is followed by entries on the 157 surviving drawings considered autograph, 5 sheets attributed to Ribera and 31 rejected attributions by the artist no win museums, institutions and private collections around the world.

In conjunction with the publication of this catalogue raisonne, the Museo del Prado in Madrid and the Meadows Museum, SMU, in Dallas have co-organised two monographic exhibitions: Ribera: Master of Drawing and Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera. They include already-known drawings by the artist and other recently attributed sheets, in addition to paintings and prints, with the aim of illustrating the importance of drawing within Ribera’s oeuvre and its independent status.

Great works of Spanish art in museums in the United States encompassing a wealth of treasures from the Middles Ages to the contemporary art scene in Spain are brought together for the first time in a comprehensive volume with essays by the institutions’ own curators and world-renowned specialists in Spanish art. Edited and with an essay by Meadows Museum director Mark Roglán, and including essays by current Meadows/Mellon/Prado postdoctoral fellow Amanda Dotseth, former Meadows/Mellon/Prado postdoctoral fellow Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, and former Meadows/Kress/Prado pre-doctoral fellow Rebecca Quinn Teresi.

Beyond Picasso, Miró, and Dalí, modern Spanish art was an intense and transforming experience, developing in various places and flourishing at different moments in history. This “arte nuevo” (new art) has needed a time like the present to be understood and redeemed for its own worth and for its difference with regard to the official reductionist narratives of modernity in art. Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo, the catalogue for the landmark, eponymous exhibition, presents full-color illustrations of the 97 works in the show and an extensive essay by the exhibition’s curator, Eugenio Carmona, an internationally recognized scholar of 20th-century art who has been integral to the development of the ACAC’s collection, the most comprehensive collection of modern art in Spain. The volume also includes introductory text for each of the exhibition’s five thematic sections, and object entries that include provenance, exhibition history, and bibliographies for the works presented. The catalogue concludes with full biographies of the 57 artists represented, making it an essential resource for the study of modern Spanish art.

On the heels of its landmark exhibition Sorolla and America, the Meadows Museum has joined Centro de Estudios Europa Hispanica (CEEH), Center for Spain in America (CSA), and Fundación Museo Sorolla to publish an authoritative study of Sorolla’s American patronage, Sorolla in America: Friends and Patrons.

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) enjoyed great fame during his two visits to the United States, when American museums presented his solo exhibitions in 1909 and 1911, and the acquisition of his works was a source of pride for public and private collections. This volume examines the network of personal relationships that sustained the collective fascination with Sorolla, including his first customers in the U.S.; directors of the newly created museums of Saint Louis, Buffalo and Chicago; important collectors and patrons like Archer M. Huntington and Thomas Fortune Ryan; American artists such as John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase; Louis Comfort Tiffany; and last but not least Raimundo de Madrazo, Sorolla’s predecessor as portraitist of American high society at the end of the nineteenth century. Finally, it chronicles the trade in, as well as changes in taste for, Sorolla’s work since his lifetime, telling the story of Sorolla’s fortunes in the art market and measuring his international success.

The 408-page volume was edited by José Luis Colomer, director of CEEH and CSA; Blanca Pons-Sorolla, great-granddaughter of the artist, and independent researcher; and Mark A. Roglán, the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum in Dallas and Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. Among the twelve contributors to the book are three members of the Meadows Museum’s curatorial staff, including Nicole Atzbach, Curator; Alexandra Letvin, Meadows/Kress/Prado Fellow; and Shelley DeMaria, Curatorial Assistant.

The English-language publication contains color illustrations of the works of art in the exhibition, in addition to palace photography and personal photographs of the Alba family from the last century. Contributors include Jacobo Siruela, José Manuel Calderón Ortega, Carlos Sambricio, Vicente Lleó Cañal, Miguel Ángel Zalama, Rosa Navarro Durán, María José Martínez Ruiz, Leticia Azcue Brea, and María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco with the collaboration of Blanca Uría Prado.

The works of art gathered by Spaniards Juan Abelló and Anna Gamazon since the 1980s constitute one of the most important private collections in the world.

Fascinated by history and art, the couple has built a collection whose marked personality is based on the beauty and quality of its pieces. It is a broad collection, with works created by both Spanish and international artists over a period of five hundred years from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. By concentrating particularly on artists underrepresented in Spain’s public and private collections, the Abelló family has both pioneered the appreciation of foreign artists and contributed to a notable recovery of their own country’s artistic heritage.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, until August 2015.

Viewers familiar with Alexander’s work will recognize some of the characters who have populated his swamps, oceans, jungles, and dinner parties over the years. In the paintings and drawings gathered for this exhibition, the artist has identified works that play off of the themes that have sustained him throughout his career. The result provides us, and him, with an opportunity to reflect on what it has meant to be true to his own nature, to gleefully drag us along on his nightmarish voyages, and challenge us to reject what is easy in pursuit of what is right.

Despite their renown among scholars of classic Spanish drawing, the collection of Spanish drawings at the Hamburger Kunsthalle is barely known. Almost all of the works in this collection are from the Academy founded in Seville in 1660 under the aegis of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Herrera the Younger, and they bear priceless witness to that period’s artistic teachings. The collection contains works not only by Murillo and Herrera the Younger, but also some of the very finest work by many of Spain’s most outstanding seventeenth-century artists, including Alonso Cano, Antonio del Castillo, Francisco de Herrera the Elder, and Juan de Valdés Leal. A second essential group of works in the Hamburg Collection are the drawings Francisco de Goya created after original paintings by Diego Velázquez, now at the Museo Nacional del Prado, which Goya reproduced as prints both to polish his engraving skills and to launch a practice for which there was no prior tradition in Spain: the reproductive print used to spread knowledge of the treasures in the Royal Collection. With this catalogue raisonné drawn up by German and Spanish specialists, the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas, present the entire collection for the very first time.

Sorolla and America explores the artist’s relationship with early twentieth-century America through the lens of those who commissioned him, those who collected him, and those artists, such as John Singer Sargent ad William Merritt Chase, with whom Sorolla is closely associated. An appendix includes a complete illustrated list of all the paintings that he produced in the United States or for American collectors

A richly-illustrated volume that explores the life and works of one of Spain’s most noteworthy, but often overlooked, painters of the nineteenth-century. Rico gained critical acclaim for his depictions of the verdant landscapes of Spain, France, and Italy, as well as for his prolific output of luminous works illustrating the charms of Venice. This publication traces the paths that brought the artist to international prominence, and documents a diverse selection of paintings and sketchbooks.