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Riva (Esther) Castleman

Born: 1930 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Riva was born and raised in Chicago.

Biography: Riva began her career at the Art Institute of Chicago as an assistant curator. She went on to work in various departments at the New York Museum of Modern Art and finished her career as the deputy director for curatorial affairs.


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Riva Castleman on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=riva+castleman


Selected Titles

American impressions :
ISBN: 0394536835 OCLC: 11785247

A.A. Knopf, New York : 1985.

A survey of lithographs, silkscreens, woodcuts, and etchings by virtually every major American artist from Jackson Pollock to Jasper Johns and Julian Schnabel, with 151 prints, 78 in full color.

Jasper Johns :
ISBN: 0870704028 OCLC: 13326386

Museum of Modern Art, New York ; New York, N.Y. : ©1986.

"Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue; over 100 illustrations, many in color. Though Johns is perhaps better known as a painter, he has also contributed more than any other living artist to the printed form of art."--Amazon.

  Modern art in prints.
ISBN: 0870704613 OCLC: 673107

Museum of Modern Art New York, [1973]

Each print is accompanied by a short description.

Prints from blocks :
ISBN: 087070561x OCLC: 9629609

Museum of Modern Art, New York : ©1983.

Prints of the twentieth century
ISBN: 0500202281 OCLC: 19036967

  Toulouse-Lautrec :
ISBN: 093980283X OCLC: 38016560

High Museum of Art, Atlanta : 1998.

 

 

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