LA Louver Publications

Avigdor Arikha
Paintings and Drawings
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
7 April - 9 May 1987

Excerpts by Robert Hughes, Maurice Tuchman, Barbara Rose, Samuel Beckett and Avigdor Arikha
32 pages, 23 color illustrations
Softback, $14

Tony Berlant
New Terrain
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
22 April - 22 May 2004

60 pages, 26 illustrations
Softback, $20

click for the New Terrain exhibition page

Tony Berlant
Extended Ecstasy
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
13 May - 19 June 1999

60 pages, 28 color illustrations
Softback, $20

Tony Berlant
New Work 1990-93
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
3 April - 1 May 1993

Excerpts by Tony Berlant
40 pages, 26 color illustrations
Softback, $20

Tony Berlant
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
21 April - 19 May 1990

44 pages, 19 color illustrations
Softback, $20

Tony Berlant
Recent Work
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
16 April - 21 May 1988

38 pages, 27 color illustrations
Softback, $16

Tony Bevan
Co-published by Michael Hue-Williams, London, England and L.A. Louver,
Venice, CA
1998

Text by Marco Livingston.
176 pages, 42 black and white and 54 color illustrations.
Hardback, out of print

Tony Bevan
Co-published by Louver Gallery New York, NY and L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
27 April - 25 May 1991Text by Dan Cameron
80 pages, 43 color illustrations
Softback, out of print

Deborah Butterfield
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
9 April - 15 May 2009

Introduction by Kimberly Davis, interview by Lawrence Weschler
280 pages
Hardback, $40

click for the Deborah Butterfield exhibition page

The British Picture
With works by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Tony Bevan, Peter Blake, Lucian Freud, Tim Head, Gerard Hemsworth, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Christopher Le Brun, John Lessore, Bruce McLean, Avis Newman, Thérèse Oulton, Charlotte Verity, John Virtue, John Walker
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
5 February - 5 March 1988

Foreword by Peter Goulds, text by Catherine Lampert, William Feaver and Lady Marina Vaizey
68 pages, 29 color illustrations
Softback, $20

Richard Diebenkorn
Drawing from the Model,
1954 - 1967
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2 November - 30 November 1996

78 pages, 43 black and white illustrations
Softback, $100

Charles Garabedian
The Archipelago of Time
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
12 September - 19 October 1996

Text by Pierre Picot
and Charles Garabedian
44 pages, 14 color illustrations
Softback, $25

Charles Garabedian
Painting
8 February - 5 March 1983
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

32 pages, 19 color illustrations
Softback, $12

Joe Goode
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
14 September - 14 October 2000

Essay by Dave Hickey
42 pages, 25 color illustrations
Softback, out of print

David Hockney
The East Yorkshire Landscape
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
9 February - 24 March 2007

Foreword by Peter Goulds and a text by David Hockney.
74 pages
Hardback, $60

click for the East Yorkshire Landscape exhibition page

David Hockney
Hand Eye Heart: Watercolors of the East Yorkshire Landscape
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
26 February - 2 April 2005

Foreword by Peter Goulds, essay by Lawrence Weschler
140 pages, 56 color illustrations
Hardback, $40

click for the Hand Eye Heart exhibition page

David Hockney
Looking at Landscape |
Being in Landscape
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
15 September - 24 October 1998

Foreword by Peter Goulds,
interview by Lawrence Weschler
44 pages, 22 color illustrations
Softback, $20 / Hardback, $35

David Hockney
Some Very Large New Paintings with Twenty-Five Dogs Upstairs and Some Drawings of Friends
7 April - 6 May 1995
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Foreword by Peter Goulds
44 pages, 43 color illustrations
Softback, $20

David Hockney
Some New Pictures
Co-published by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
6 December 1989 - 6 January 1990

Foreword by Peter Goulds
48 pages, 27 color illustrations
Softback, $20

K.H. Hödicke
Co-published by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY; and Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany
20 October - 28 November 1987

Text by Donald Kuspit
36 pages, 23 illustrations
Softback, $12

Inconsolable
An Exhibition About Painting
With works by Tony Bevan,
Ross Bleckner, Chris de Boschnek,
Marlene Dumas, Hubert Scheibl,
Pat Steir, Juan Usle
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
29 June - 27 July 1990

Text by Dan Cameron
40 pages, 7 color illustrations
Hardback, $10

Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Tableau Drawings
1 March - 31 March 2001
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Essay by Marco Livingston, text and historical chronology by Nancy Reddin Kienholz
146 pages, 119 black and white illustrations, 37 color illustrations
Softback, $40

Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
The Merry-Go-World or Begat By Chance and The Wonder Horse Trigger
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
26 September- 24 October 1992

Foreword by Peter Goulds, text by Ed Kienholz
68 pages, 61 black and white, 30 color illustrations
Softback, $25

Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
Kienholz
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
7 October - 11 November 1989

Introduction by Sean Kelly, text by Walter Hopps
64 pages, 19 color illustrations
Softback, $22

Per Kirkeby
18 January - 15 February 1997
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Poetry by Per Kirkeby
42 pages, 21 color illustrations
Softback, $20

click for full exhibition page

Kitaj
Los Angeles Pictures
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
21 May - 5 July 2003

Foreword by Peter Goulds,
essay by R.B. Kitaj
82 pages, 45 illustrations
Softback, $25

click for the Los Angeles Pictures exhibition page

Kossoff
Drawings 1985 to 1992
Co-published by Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London and L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
8 May - 5 June 1993

Foreword by James Cohan
48 pages, 20 color and black and white illustrations
softback, $20

Leon Kossoff
Recent Work
Co-published by L.A. Louver, Venice, CA; Fischer Fine Art, London; and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
15 November - 15 December 1984

48 pages, 47 black and white and color illustrations
Softback, $20

Leon Kossoff
Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints After Nicolas Poussin
Published by Merrell Publishers, in collaboration with L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2000

Text by Richard Kendall
128 pages, 89 color illustrations
Hardback, $35

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibitions, "Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff Drawings and Prints After Nicolas Poussin," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 20 January - 2 April 2000, which traveled to the National Galleryof Australia, Canberra, 17 March - 10 June 2001; and "Poussin Landscapes by Kossoff," J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 18 January - 16 April 2000. A related show, "After Nicolas Poussin: New Etchings by Leon Kossoff," was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 24 April - 13 August 2002.

Richard Kendall trained as a painter and printmaker before taking an MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. As a lecturer at colleges and universities in Manchester, he developed an interest in Impressionism, and has published books on Cézanne, Degas, Monet and Van Gogh. He has also curated several major exhibitions of the work of Degas in Britain and the United States. He now works as an independent scholar and has written essays and reviews on the work of a number of contemporary artists, including Lucian Freud, Euan Uglow and Leon Kossoff.

Enrique Martínez Celaya
Daybreak
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
20 November 2008 - 3 January 2009

Paintings and notes by
Enrique Martínez Celaya
55 pages, 18 color and 2 black and white ilustrations
Hardback, $35

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Suzanne McClelland
New Paintings
7 May - 4 June 1994
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Essay by Faye Hirsch
24 pages, 8 color illustrations
Softback, $12

Ed Moses
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
23 March - 11 May 1999

Text by Frances Colpitt
46 pages, 24 illustrations
Softback, $25

Documents the artist's painting concerns 1995 - 1994, following the exhibitions "Ed Moses: A Retrospective of the Paintings and Drawings, 1951 - 1996"

Ed Moses
Abstraction & Apparition
2 June - 30 June 1990
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

32 pages, 20 color illustrations
Softback, $28

Ed Moses
Louver Gallery, New York, NY
18 November – 16 December 1989

32 pages, 12 color illustrations
Softback, $20

Ed Moses
Paintings
23 May - 26 June 1987
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Foreword by Peter Goulds, text by Frances Colpiit and William Wilson
64 pages, 31 color illustrations
Softback, $28

Thérèse Oulton
Paintings and Works on Paper
12 February – 9 March 1991
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Text by Andrew Renton
32 pages, 16 color illustrations
Softback, $25

Rogue Wave ’05 /
Rogue Wave ’01
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2005

Introduction by Peter Goulds
80 pages, 30 color illustrations
Softback, $30

This catalogue documents the “Rogue Wave ’01” (29 June – 1 September 2001) and “Rogue Wave ’05” (30 June – 3 September 2005) exhibitions of emerging Los Angeles artists.

click for the Rogue Wave projects mini-site

Sandra Mendlesohn Rubin
Shapes & Shadows: Still Life Paintings,
1994 - 2003
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
17 October – 15 November 2003

Foreword by Kimberly Davis, essay by Noriko Gamblin
70 pages, 48 illustrations
Softback, $20

click for the Shapes & Shadows exhibition page

Sean Scully

Recent Paintings
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2006

Includes an essay by poet and critic John Yau and a foreword
by Peter Goulds.
64 pages, 29 color illustrations
Softback, $30

click for the Sean Scully exhibition page

Richard Shaffer
Selected Work 1979 - 1983
25 May – 30 June 1984

Foreword by Albert Hofstadter, interview by Susan Freudenheim
50 pages, 30 color illustrations
Softback, $15

Peter Shelton
sixtyslippers
Published by the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, in collaboration with L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
4 December 1997 – 31 January 1998

Essay by Jacquelynn Baas, interview by Constance Lewallen
60 pages, 65 illustrations
Softback, $25

This exhibition traveled to the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.

Peter Shelton
floatinghouseDEADMAN
Republished by Louver Gallery, New York, NY; originally published by Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
6 January – 3 February 1990

Foreword by Dr. Edith A. Tonelli, selected notes by Peter Shelton
32 pages, 47 black and white and color illustrations
Softback, $15

This Knot of Life
Paintings and Drawings
by British Artists
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1979

Foreword by Peter Goulds, text by R.B. Kitaj
32 pages, 12 color illustrations
Softback, $14

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "This Knot of Life," which was comprised of two related shows: Part I, 23 October – 17 November, 1979, with William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow; and Part II, 27 November – 22 December 1979, with Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff.

Juan Uslé
ojo-nido
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
22 May - 5 July 2008

Paintings and poems by Juan Uslé
With an essay by Kevin Power
103 pages, 21 color illustrations
Hardback, $40

click for the ojo-nido exhibition page

John Virtue
Co-published by Michael Hue-Williams, London, England and L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
14 January – 19 February 1999

Foreword by Frank Auerbach, text by Tessa Jackson
72 pages, 54 illustrations
Hardback, out of print

John Virtue
Ten New Works
Co-published by Louver Gallery, New York, NY and Lisson Gallery, London
17 March – 14 April 1990

Text by Richard Cork
36 pages, 10 black and white illustrations
Softback, out of print

William T. Wiley
What is Not Drawing?
5 December – 2 January 1988
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

32 pages, 32 black and white and color illustrations
Softback, $15

Fred Williams
The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
8 April – 14 May 2005

Introduction by Peter Goulds, essay by Patrick McCaughey,
60 pages, 17 color illustrations
Softback, $25

Patrick McCaughey has been the Directror of three major art museums: the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1981 - 87); the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn (1988 - 96); The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (1996 - 2001). He produced the first comprehensive monograph on Fred Williams in 1980, subsequently reprinted three times. In 2003 he published an Australian memoir, The Bright Shapes and the True Names (Text, Melbourne). He lives and works as a writer in New Haven, Connecticut.

click for The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981 exhibition page

Tom Wudl
Recent Work
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
10 January – 7 February 1987

8 pages, 6 color and black and white illustrations
Softback, out of print

Leon Kossoff
After Nicolas Poussin
1999

A portfolio of 22 etchings; 14 images are an edition of 20, and 8 images are varying editions of unique proofs.

David Nash
Stoves 1979 - 1994
1996

A portfolio of 12 cibachrome prints documenting the stove and hearth project.
Edition: 25

Wallace Berman
Semina, Vol. 1-9, 1958 – 1964
1992

Between 1957 - 1964, the artist produced nine journals devoted to poetry and art. L.A. Louver published the facsimile of these
documents, supervised by George Herms.
Edition: 300

Richard Schaffer
Andenden: Spaces of Dwelling
1982

A portfolio of 8 aquatint, dry point, soft ground etchings.
Edition: 50

Max Cole
Los Angeles Series
1980 - 1981

Two portfolios of etchings
Edition: 50

Charles Garabedian
You Are Going On A Trip
1961 - 1980

A portfolio of 11 etchings and lithographs
Edition: 50

Robert Janz
Changing Lines, 1979

A portfolio of 6 etchings with embossing and photographs.
Edition: 50

Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin
Color, 2003

A portfolio of 12 Giclée prints.
Edition: 25

click for the Shapes & Shadows exhibition page