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The Wheelwright Museum publishes catalogs and videos to accompany many of its unique exhibitions. Sixteen catalogs are featured here for your reading pleasure and to provide a sense of the quality and variety of the museum’s publications. For each catalog we have included a description of the content, the principal text, cover illustrations, and retail price. Please note that shipping is extra. To order, or to request a complete list of available publications, contact the museum’s Case Trading Post at casetradingpost@cs.com or 1-800-607-4636, x110.
Orders from booksellers are always welcome, but please note that supplies of some catalogs are too low to fill quantity orders.
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JUST RELEASED!
Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe, 1918–1945 by Michelle McGeough, 2009. Focuses on paintings from the Charlotte G. Mittler collection created by students who attended the Santa Fe Indian School between 1918 and 1945. Featured artists include Fred Kabotie, Velino Shije Herrera, Allan Houser, Andrew Tsihnahjinnie, Pablita Velarde, and Sybil Yazzie. Trim size 11.25 x 9.5 inches; 253 pages; 18 photographs with 244 color plates. Full appendix with references cited.
Hardcover $55; softcover $40.
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The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico by Jonathan Batkin, 2008. From its inception, the curio trade comprised cottage industries, retail spaces, and a vast mail-order trade. Eventually production moved to curio shops, where “Indian style” jewelry was made with the assistance of machinery. This is a story about artifacts, personalities, innovations, and ultimately, the survival of traditions. Published in conjunction with an exhibit at the Wheelwright in 2008-2009. Trim size 10.5 x 8 inches; 336 pages; 151 color illustrations; appendix with information on more than 200 silversmiths who worked in curio shops before World War II. Hardcover $85.00; softcover $55.00. |
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Arthur Amiotte: Collages 1988-2006 by Janet Catherine Berlo, 2006. This book, published as the catalog for an exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum in 2006-2007, includes a masterful essay by Berlo and her interview of the artist. It is the first publication devoted solely to Amiotte’s collage series, which serves as his cultural biography as well as his family album, and provides a penetrating look at Lakota history, narrated and visualized from a Native point of view. Trim size 10 x 10 inches; 108 pages; 57 color and 2 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover only $40.00. |
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About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists by Zena Pearlstone and Allan J. Ryan, 2006. This beautiful book was published with an exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum in 2005-2006. Included are 62 self-portraits by Native artists of the United States and Canada who work in a variety of media, from pottery and stone sculpture to acrylic painting and digital photography. In addition to Pearlstone’s and Ryan’s engaging essay are contributions from four other authors. Trim size 12 x 9 inches; 200 pages; 88 color and 2 black-and-white illustrations. Hardcover $75.00; softcover $45.00. |
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Face to Face: Portraits by America Meredith by America Meredith, 2006. America Meredith is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and a hereditary member of the Red Paint Clan, who also acknowledges Swedish and Celtic ancestry. Inspired by sources ranging from medieval miniatures to Cherokee and Japanese syllabaries, she paints portraits of friends, family, and historic figures that confound stereotypes and challenge assumptions about Native identity. A resident of San Francisco, she tied for Best Painter of 2006 in the San Francisco Weekly’s annual poll. Meredith is dedicated to the idea of art as communication. “For me art’s the vehicle,” she says. “I don’t do art for art’s sake. I do art specifically to talk about Native American issues.” Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2006-2007. Trim size 9 x 10 inches; 32 pages, 14 color illustrations. Softcover only $15.00. |
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Zuni Fetish Carvers of the 1970s: A Bridge from Past to Present by Kent and Laurie McManis, 2006. This book focuses on the decade when Zuni fetish carving was at a crossroads. The text includes a discussion of the artistic and economic Zuni climate of the 1970s, biographical information on carvers, and delightful color plates and brief descriptions of works by each carver. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum in 2005. Trim size 6 x 8 ¼ inches; 103 pages, 82 color illustrations. Softcover only $18.00. |
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Loloma: Beauty Is His Name by Martha Hopkins Streuver, 2005. Hopi artist Charles Loloma was arguably the most influential Native American jeweler of the twentieth century. This exquisite book includes heretofore unpublished information on his career and illustrations of nearly 500 examples of jewelry and other media. Published with an acclaimed exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum in 2005. Trim size 11 x 9 inches. 224 pages, 283 color and 7 black-and-white illustrations. Hardcover $75.00; softcover $45.00. |
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The Earth, the Moon, and Stars Above by Benjamin Harjo, Jr., 2004. This handsome catalog was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2004-2005. It includes striking color photos of paintings and prints that were in the exhibition, along with commentary by the artist, Benjamin Harjo, Jr., and an essay on the artist by Julie Pearson Little Thunder. Trim size 11 x 9 inches; 52 pages, 35 color and 4 black-and-white illustrations. Softcover only $20.00. |
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Warp to Weft: Weaving by Morris Muskett by Morris Muskett, 2004. This catalog was published with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2004. Contains full-page color plates with artist commentary. A limited number of signed copies are available. Trim size 9 x 9 inches; 24 pages, 11 color illustrations. Softcover only $10.00. |
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My Little People: Soft Sculpture by Jamie Okuma, 2004. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2004. Includes 9 full-page color plates with commentary by the artist. Trim size 9 x 9 inches; 20 pages; 11 color illustrations. Softcover only. $10.00. |
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Zuni Fetish Carvers: The Mid-Century Masters by Kent McManis, 2003. Fetishes have always been a part of Zuni religious observance, a complex tradition designed to ensure good health, bountiful crops, successful hunting, and other blessings of daily life. The artists featured in this book drew upon this rich tradition with their carving. Their efforts, and those of the traders who championed their work, led to the high level of craftsmanship seen in fetish carving today. This catalog was published with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2003. Trim size 8 ½ x 6 inches; 64 pages, with more than 100 color illustrations. Softcover only $10.00. |
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Another Phase: Weaving by D. Y. Begay, 2003. This catalog was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2003-2004. It includes 10 color plates of textiles along with insightful commentary by the artist. Begay is a Navajo weaver, educator, curator, and lecturer from Chinle, Arizona. She is known nationally for her unparalleled contribution to research and teaching and is passionate about sharing her knowledge of the history and significance of Navajo weaving. Trim size 9 x 9 inches; 24 pages; 11 color illustrations. Softcover only. $10.00.
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Darren Vigil Gray: Counterclockwise by Lucy R. Lippard, 2002. Darren Vigil Gray has been called the "Golden Boy of the third generation" of Native American painters. He began studying art in 1975 while enrolled in the high school program at Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Arts. This was followed by study at the College of Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico, but by 1986 Gray had given up academics and was painting full-time. This catalog was published with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 2002-2003. It contains 37 color reproductions of paintings by the artist with commentary. Trim size 11 x 9 inches; 51 pages, 37 color illustrations and 1 black-and-white illustration. Softcover only $20.00. |
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Clay People edited by Jonathan Batkin, 1999. This work illuminates the historic figurative tradition, especially of Cochiti and Tesuque pueblos, along with the work of three innovative contemporary ceramists, Nora Naranjo Morse, Roxanne Swentzell, and Virgil Ortiz. This book is a thoroughly researched and readable look at a fascinating part of Puebloan clay art. The figures represented are full of humor, parody, culture, and historic meaning. More than 60 figures are included. Published with an exhibit of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum in 1999. Trim size 11 x 8 ½ inches; 96 pages, 12 color and 50 duotone illustrations. Softcover only $35.00. |
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Illuminations: Paintings by Judith Lowry, 1999. Essays by Lucy R. Lippard and Theresa Harlan. Judith Lowry considers her work to be a modern extension of the storytelling tradition that runs in her family. In her paintings, done in acrylic on large canvases, life-sized figures glow in deep, rich colors. Through the use of symbolism and allegory, she addresses such issues as cross-cultural exchange, stereotypes of all kinds, women’s role in history, and the politics of religion. Trim size 9 x 9 inches; 48 pages; 16 color and 2 black-and-white illustrations. Supply extremely limited; no quantity orders accepted. Softcover only. $35.00. |
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Harry Fonseca: Earth, Wind, and Fire, 1996. Essays by Elizabeth Woody, Margaret Archuleta, and Floyd Solomon. Trim size 9 x 9 inches; 40 pages; 10 color and 10 black-and-white illustrations. Out of print. |
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