Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chimes, Thomas, 1921-
2. Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009.
3. Philadelphia Museum of Art

Description

1. xi, 255 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.

Summary

1. Thomas Chimes is one of the most important artists to emerge in Philadelphia since World War II. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes's idiosyncratic art, this book presents a long-overdue survey of his five-decade career: canvases combining landscape imagery with symbols such as crucifixes (late 1950s-mid-1960s); mixed-media constructions set within finely crafted metal boxes (late 1960s-early 1970s); his best-known works, a series of forty-eight intimate sepia-toned panel portraits of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists that are placed within oversized wood frames (1973-78); and the enigmatic 'white paintings' of the past two decades.

Subject

1. Chimes, Thomas, 1921- > Criticism and interpretation
2. Chimes, Thomas, 1921- > Exhibitions
3. Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009 > Criticism and interpretation
4. Chimes, Thomas, 1921-2009 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Exhibition catalogs

Contents

1. Introduction -- Crucifixion paintings -- Metal boxes -- Panel portraits -- White paintings -- Notes -- Chronology -- Exhibition history.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 27-May 6, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-251) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain