Westward the Course of Empire
Hardcover, 180 pp., 72 tritone illus.
ISBN 978-30014-134-4
ISBN-10 0-30014-134-3
Mark Ruwedel, with an essay by Jock Reynolds

Mark Ruwedel has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narratives—both geological and human—contained within the landscape. The first major monograph on Ruwedel's work, this stunning book presents more than seventy prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869.

Item# 144
Price $65; Members $52

What Can We Believe Where?: Photographs of the American West, 1965–2005
Paperback, 128 pp., 110 tritone illus.
ISBN 978-0-300-16247-9
Robert Adams

What Can We Believe Where?: Photographs of the American West, 1965–2005 offers a concise overview of Adams’s forty-five year career, featuring 110 tritone images—chosen and sequenced by Adams himself—a brief artist’s statement, and a short introduction by director Jock Reynolds and curator Joshua Chuang. The photographs in the publication are drawn from those in the nationally and internationally traveling exhibition Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs, 1964–2009, organized by the Gallery. The exhibition celebrates the Gallery’s acquisition of Adams’s master sets in 2004 and its recent republication of the classic monographs denver (1977), Summer Nights (1985), and What We Bought (1995).

Item# 120
Price $25; Members $20

What We Bought: The New World, Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974
Hardcover, 208 pp., 193 tritone illus.
ISBN 978-0-300-14963-0
Robert Adams

Along with The New West (1974), Robert Adams’s publications denver (1977) and What We Bought (1995) comprise a loose trilogy of the artist’s photographic survey of the Denver area from 1968 to 1974. These series are among the most forceful bodies of work produced in Adams’s long career. The Yale University Art Gallery’s reprint edition of What We Bought celebrates this preeminent American photographer, as well as the Gallery’s growing collection of Adams’s prints. This new printing of What We Bought, which coincides with the Gallery's revised edition of denver, is comprised of a single unbroken sequence of 193 images, chronicling the city’s rural outskirts, streets, offices, and residential neighborhoods, and brings this classic publication, long unavailable, back into print.

Item# 181
Price $60; Members $48

Wood Turning in North America since 1930
Hardcover, 192 pp., 134 color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-095-6
Catalogue for the exhibition, organized by Patricia E. Kane, presented at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (October 21–December 30, 2001); Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (March 15–July 21, 2002); Yale University Art Gallery (September 10–December 1, 2002), with essays by Kane, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., Glenn Adamson, Albert LeCoff, Graeme P. Berlyn, and Andrew D. Richardson. Biographies by Mary Cheek Mills and glossary by Susan Hagen.

This joint production of the Gallery and Philadelphia’s Wood Turning Center presents the varied and colorful work of seventy artists, along with artist portraits. Ranging from the utilitarian to the whimsical, their creations are celebrated in the context of wood turning’s history in America, technical innovations that have arisen, and the physical properties that lend themselves to a seemingly unlimited array of shapes and patterns.

Item# 241
Price $65; Members $52
Sale $55; Members $44

Wood Turning in North America since 1930
A paper version of the above is available.
ISBN 0-89467-094-8

Item# 41
Price $35; Members $28

Words for Images: A Gallery of Poems
Hardcover, 194 pp., color illus.
ISBN 0-89467-096-4
Edited by John Hollander and Joanna Weber
Catalogue for the exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (August 21–November 4, 2001)

Both a literary celebration of the Gallery’s collections and a field guide of literary inspiration, this handsome volume features twenty-two specially commissioned poems written by Yale-trained poets and the twentieth-century art that inspired them—works by Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Pierre Bonnard, and more. Contributors include J. D. McClatchy (on Walker Evans’s Lexington Avenue Subway), Jonathan Aaron (on Kurt Schwitters’s Merzz. 19), Rika Lesser (on Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Opposite Corners). Each poem is printed alongside a reproduction of the inspiration, followed by commentary by curator Weber and English professor and poet Hollander.

Item# 2160
Price $35; Members $28
Sale $25; Members $20