2014 Catalog of Publications and DVDs

PO Box 1342, Woodstock, NY 12498 / 845-679-8111
[email protected] / www.woodstockarts.com
2014 Catalog of Publications and DVDs
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Featured Title……………………………...……………...2
Additional Publications………………..………………….4
Forthcoming Titles…………………………...…………...6
DVDs...………………………...…………………………..7
Order Form…………………………………...…………...8
Books and DVDs about the arts and artists of Woodstock, NY
This catalog includes works published by WoodstockArts, by the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) and by Bushwhack Books. It also features films by Cambiz Khosravi of Woodstock Heritage Productions and by Tobe Carey of Willow Mixed Media.
WoodstockArts is a publishing, production and marketing company based in Woodstock, NY. As a publisher it specializes in quality regional art books.
Lawrence Webster’s Under the North Light:
The Life and Work of Maud and Miska Petersham
Chronicles the award-winning children’s book authors/illustrators:
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Considered pioneers in a golden
age of children’s book publishing
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Awarded a Caldecott Honor in
1942
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Won a Caldecott Medal in 1946
Under the North Light is itself a winner of the 2013
Independent Publisher Book Award, the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award (IBPA), and the 2012 ForeWord
Book of the Year Award, all in the biography category.
“This biography looks at the lives of two of the most influential illustrators of children’s books in the 20th
century and will be of interest to scholars, librarians, and art students. In lively prose, Webster recounts
how two artists with disparate beginnings met in a New York art institute in 1912, married, and collaborated on exquisite award-winning children’s books for more than 40 years. Comprehensive research including the artists’ own correspondence and letters from children; commentary from authors, reviewers, educators, and businessmen; and interviews with family members result in an endearing account of the process,
dedication, and joy that went into each project. Numerous texts and illustrations are discussed at length and
are accompanied by vibrant colorful reproductions. The author emphasizes the artists’ originality and significance, noting that their work presents a picture of the cultural trends of their times.”
—School Library Journal
Favorite Books of 2012
“Loaded with ravishing illustrations, this is a labor of love, recounting the life and work of Maud and Miska
Petersham. If you love children’s books, order a copy without delay.”
—Books and Culture
“Maud and Miska Petersham’s annual Christmas cards form a treasured part of the Horn Book archives, and
several are reproduced in [this] handsomely designed and bountifully illustrated [book]. This warm tribute
to [the Petershams’] collaboration is appropriately introduced by one of today’s picture-book power couples, Erin E. and Philip C. Stead.”
—Horn Book Magazine
“Under the North Light belongs on the desk of every illustrator of children’s stories, accomplished or aspiring, as well as in the hands of anyone who loves children’s books or appreciates biographies of interesting
people.”
—ForeWord Reviews
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9780967926865
2012938574
Data appear on the copyright page of the book
$39.50
192; 146 color photos, 56 black-and-white images
8 x 10 inches
Cloth/hardcover, Smythe-sewn, lay-flat binding
Foreword and prologue
Epilogue, notes, list of illustrations, acknowledgments and
index
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This book can be seen in full on Amazon.com via the Search Inside program.
About the author
Lawrence Webster knew the Petershams while growing up
in Woodstock during the 1950s and 1960s and has always
loved and admired their books and the lives they led. A librarian and nonprofit consultant, Webster lives outside
Philadelphia. Under the North Light is her first writing for
love of the subject rather than to meet a deadline.
From the back cover of the book
Maud and Miska Petersham, early 1920s, in front of the
large, north-facing window in their Woodstock, New
York studio. Artists around the world have always valued
the consistency of north light as the ideal for illuminating
their work spaces. Maud and Miska worked together
across this drawing board for close to forty years.
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Additional Titles Available from WoodstockArts
George Ault: The Woodstock Years
Essay by Eila M. Kokkinen. 8 color and 17 black and white images (a photo each of George and Louise Ault; the rest are
paintings and drawings). Softcover, 44 pages, trim size 8 by 10
inches. Includes a chronology of the artist’s life. Also an essay
(“George Ault’s Disquieting Vision”) by Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Director, Des Moines Art Center. Published by the Woodstock Artists Association in 2001. $10.
The Founders of the Woodstock Artists Association
The work of John F. Carlson, Frank Swift Chase, Andrew Dasburg, Carl Eric Lindin and Henry Lee McFee. Essay (“The Lion
and the Lamb Living Happily Side by Side”) by Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
5 color and 18 black and white images (1 photo each of the
artists, 3 each of their paintings and 3 period photos of the
Woodstock Artists Association). Softcover, 36 pages, trim size
8.5 by 11 inches. Includes an essay about each of the artists,
along with representative paintings. Published by the Woodstock Artists Association in 2000. $15.
At Woodstock: Kuniyoshi
Show curator and essayist Josephine Bloodgood. This is the
catalog prepared for a 2003 retrospective on the work of Yasuo
Kuniyoshi. It is softcover and includes 10 color and 60 black
and white images. The page count is 56 and the trim size is 8.5
by 11 inches. Published by the Woodstock Artists Association
in 2003. $15.
The Maverick: Hervey White’s Colony of the Arts
Co-Curators Josephine Bloodgood and Tom Wolf. Essays by Tom
Wolf and William B. Rhoads. Josephine Bloodgood is Executive
Director of the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum; Tom
Wolf is Professor of Art History at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, NY; and William Rhoads is Professor Emeritus of Art History at SUNY New Paltz, NY. This is the catalog from the Maverick
Art Colony centennial exhibition, which occurred in 2006. The publication is softcover and contains 74 color and 50 black and white
images (historical photos and artists’ work) throughout its 128
pages. The trim size is 8 ½ by 11 inches. $30.
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Additional Titles Available from WoodstockArts
Woodstock Portraits
Introduction by Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History, Bard
College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Includes profiles of
and work by George Bellows, Robert Chanler, Emil
Ganso, Eugenie Gershoy, Marion Greenwood, Doris Lee,
Anton Refregier, Winold Reiss, Hannah Small, Eugene
Speicher and Eva Watson-Schütze. Also a portrait each
by John Carroll and Konrad Cramer. 2 color and 30 black
and white images. Softcover, 43 pages, trim size 8.5 by 11
inches. Published by the Woodstock Artists Association in
1999. $12.
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
Join Michael Perkins and Will Nixon, authors of this bestselling book, for a personal tour of places they’ve explored on foot for years. Learn about the early Dutch settlers and witches, the bluestone quarries and tanneries,
the bohemian arts colony, the historic hotels on Overlook
Mountain, the concert that didn’t happen here, the Sixties
rock ’n’ rollers including Bob Dylan and Levon Helm, the
promoters and the eccentrics, the legends and the history
that have made Woodstock world famous. Softcover, 192
pages, trim size 4.5 by 7 inches. Published by Bushwhack Books in 2012. ISBN: 978061565216. $13.95.
Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild
Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town
At a poetry gathering one evening, authors Michael
Perkins and Will Nixon decided to walk across Woodstock—not just the modern town of busy roads, but the
older village of bluestone quarries, abandoned forest
paths and mountain views they had all to themselves.
Walking Woodstock collects their adventures, many
first published in the Woodstock Times, that ranged
from the delights of finding spring flowers to the fears of
a mountain rescue. Full of humor, friendship, nature,
hikers’ lore and walkers’ musings, these journeys reveal the wild heart that beats in all of us when we set
forth to explore our home terrain on foot. Softcover,
236 pages, trim size 6 x 9 inches. Published by Bushwhack Books in 2009. ISBN: 9781935534396. $18.95.
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Additional Titles Available from WoodstockArts
More about Woodstock
2014 is the 45th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival
Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock”
Explains definitively and for the first time why the festival was named Woodstock
and why it continues to be so closely associated with the town even though the concert actually occurred in Bethel, NY. Catskill Mountain Region Guide called this
book “a fascinating read: there’s an interesting story on every page, and it is a musthave for anyone interested in Woodstock Festival, the history of Woodstock, or the
counter cultural movement in the United States.” Foreword by Bob Fass, host of
WBAI’s Radio Unnameable. Two maps and 115 black and white images. Softcover,
160 pages, trim size 5.5 by 8.5 inches. Published by WoodstockArts in 2009. ISBN
9780967926858. $19.95
This title is also available from Ingram and Baker & Taylor.
Woodstock History and Hearsay
Prize-winning art book edition by Anita M. Smith. According to
Choice Magazine, “[the] story of this important arts community,
one of the US’s oldest, is told from the sensitive perspective of
Smith—painter, writer and famed herbalist who arrived in Woodstock in 1912. Her approach blends shrewd scholarship, biography
and hearsay. Summing up: Recommended. All Levels.” This book
was a 2007 Independent Publisher Award winner and a finalist,
ForeWord 2007 Book of the Year. Published by WoodstockArts in
2009. ISBN 9780967926841. $37.50
This title is also available from Ingram and Baker & Taylor.
Forthcoming Titles
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Living Large: The Unconventional Love Story of Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason
(working title), by Joseph P. Eckhardt. Projected publication by WoodstockArts:
Spring 2015.
Anita M. Smith: Herb Lady of the Catskills. Projected publication by WoodstockArts:
Spring 2015.
Norman Studer: From Camp Woodland to Woodstock (working title), by Bill Horne.
Projected publication by WoodstockArts: Spring 2015.
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Documentary DVDs About Woodstock, the Catskills and Beyond
Woodstock: In Search of Utopia, a film by Cambiz Khosravi, tells a story of
Woodstock through the voices of original art colonists Eugene Ludins, Hannah
Small, Eugenie Gershoy and Karl Fortess (interviews recorded in the late 1980s). It
brings the story up to the present time through conversations with Ed Sanders,
founder of “The Fugs,” John Sebastian, founder of the “Lovin’ Spoonful, folksinger
Happy Traum, and Michael Lang, co-creator of the Woodstock Festival of 1969—
as well as young Woodstockers who are looking for their own definition of utopia.
©2012. Running time is 72 minutes. $19.95
The Catskill Mountain House and the World Around gives a fascinating account
of America’s first great mountaintop hotel. This is also a tale of romantic tourism,
Hudson River School art, and cutthroat competition in New York’s Northern Catskills. For 140 years, from 1823 to 1963, the Catskill Mountain House stood atop the
Catskill high peaks as a symbol of the Gilded Age. Beginning in the 1850s, the
Laurel House, the Hotel Kaaterskill, the Overlook Mountain House and the Grand
Hotel also became world-famous vacation spots that attracted business tycoons,
artists and presidents. This account of the rise and fall of the Catskill Mountain
House is a compelling tale of steamboat and railroad empires, bitter rivalries, exclusive private preserves, fabulous art and picturesque landscapes that celebrate
the Catskills as part of the American Grand Tour and as America’s First Wilderness. ©2010. Running time is 80 minutes. $19.95
Deep Water tells the true story of the building of the Catskill Water System. It is a
heroic tale of heartbreak, political maneuvering, lost villages, brilliant engineering
and a power struggle between New York City and the Catskills. This film includes
over 900 vintage images, rare films and interviews with historians and residents.
Produced by Tobe Carey of Willow Mixed Media with music by Abby Newton, Robbie Dupree, Artie Traum, Bill Keith and Cindy Cashdollar, among others. ©2005.
Running time is 45 minutes. $19.95
Sweet Violets is the surprising saga of the Violet Capital of the World—Rhinebeck,
New York. In the Gilded Age and beyond, sweet violets were the flower of choice for
Valentine’s Day and Easter, and they were frequently used as a fragrant corsage.
By 1912, Rhinebeck was producing a quarter of all cultivated violets grown in the
United States. Nearly 400 violet houses dotted backyards and fields in Rhinebeck,
Red Hook, Hyde Park, and towns throughout Dutchess County. At Easter more than
a million blooms were shipped by train to Eastern and Midwestern cities. Dutchess
County became known as “The Violet Belt,” and Rhinebeck was “The Buckle on the
Belt.” The flower’s popularity lasted well beyond World War II; the last “Violet King”
didn’t close his greenhouses until 1979. The documentary includes interviews with
historians, rare film footage and photographs, 19th century music, postcards, poetry
and art. ©2012. Running time is 40 minutes. $19.95
Stanley’s House is a film by Tobe Carey about Stanley J. Kunitz, the former Poet
Laureate of the United States. Kunitz was born in 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, six weeks before his father committed suicide in a public park. When he
was thirteen, Stanley’s family moved into a new house his mother had built at the
edge of the city. In 2003, Tobe Carey learned that he had been raised in the same
house and had the same bedroom as Kunitz. Carey interweaves the story of
Stanley’s family with his own memories. Historical and cultural details are added
by Kunitz scholar and poet, Carle Johnson, and by Norma Feingold, curator of the
Worcester Historical Museum. Included are several readings by Kunitz. ©2007.
Running time is 50:50 minutes. $19.95
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Order Form
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Title
Price
Under the North Light
$39.50
George Ault: The Woodstock Years
$10.00
The Founders of the Woodstock Artists
Association
$15.00
At Woodstock: Kuniyoshi
$15.00
The Maverick: Hervey White’s Colony of
the Arts
$30.00
Woodstock Portraits
$12.00
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
$13.95
Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the
Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous
Small town
$18.95
Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival
$19.95
Woodstock History and Hearsay
$37.50
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DVDs
Woodstock: In Search of Utopia
$19.95
The Catskill Mountain House and the
World Around
$19.95
Deep Water
$19.95
Sweet Violets
$19.95
Stanley’s House
$19.95
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