Attached to this post is an Excel file containing recent additions to the Fine Arts Department. Once you open the file you will see links to the online catalog that will facilitate item requests. Be sure to visit our blog regularly to be the first to check out these new items!

The Cleveland Museum of Art is featuring the exhibit Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889 from October 2009 through January 18, 2010.   Visit the Fine Arts Department at Main Library to check out books about Gauguin, his art and life.

Here are just a few titles on Paul Gauguin that may be of interest to you (click on titles to place a request):

• Paul Gauguin by Anna Barskaya [ND553.G27 A4 2004]
• Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism edited by Guillermo Solana [N6853.G34 A4 2004]
• Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin by Vojtêch Jirat-Wasiutynski [ND553.G27 J58 2000]
• Paul Gauguin: A Life by David Sweetman [ND553.G27 S96 1995]
• Gauguin and Impressionism by Richard R. Brettell [N3853.G34 B74 2005]

IMAGE: Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888. Oil on canvas; 73 x 92.7 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1983.1.19. Image courtesy the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Attached to this post is an Excel file containing recent additions to the Fine Arts Department. Once you open the file you will see links to the online catalog that will facilitate item requests. Be sure to visit our blog regularly to be the first to check out these new items!

2009 Spectrum: The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues presents:
Civic Design and Inspired Infrastructure

Featuring
Alex Washburn & Fred Salvucci
With moderator Steve Litt

The design of our cities shapes nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  Today our nation is reinvesting in our cities by rebuilding the streets, bridges and highways that shape our urban landscape.  Civic Design and Inspired Infrastructure brings some of the nation’s most innovative thinkers and practitioners in the urban design field to the Cleveland Public Library to discuss how well-designed infrastructure projects bring together form and function to shape successful cities.

For more information call 216.621.5330 

Spectrum is an annual program of conversation focusing on issues that impact our visual and popular culture.  Presented by the Cleveland Public Library in partnership with the Cleveland Public Art, these events will generate innovative, unexplored, and provocative dialogues.