Copyright © 2006 by Dallas Museum of Art Robert Ryman is considered one of the preeminent painters of the past fifty years. This remarkable book features over two dozen of Ryman's works from the 1960s to the present, all of which demonstrate his keen desire to investigate the essential properties of a painting--it's color, surface, texture, support, and relationship to the wall on which it is displayed--in order to achieve direct and unmediated painterly effects. Drawn from distinguished private collections in Dallas and elsewhere as well as from major museum holdings, many of the works comprising this book have never before been exhibited in public or published. The exhibition "Robert Ryman" was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art December 18, 2005-April 2, 2006 |