Encounters with Beauty In Encounters with Beauty, Sam Scott's writings, excerpted from his journals, come from an artist's contemplative perspective. His thoughts offer insights and wisdom that hehas gleaned over the last thirty years in Santa Fe. As a pursuer of beauty, he offers the reader a unique opportunity to look inside the artist's struggle in the pursuit of beauty and art, and its important in our personal lives. 2007 Click here to view at FrescoBooks.com |
Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil Paintings To view from where painter Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas and, as importantly, where the pigment is omitted, Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there. 2004 Cover Image: Click here to view at FrescoBooks.com |
Sam Scott: An American Voice
by Jim Edwards and William Peterson
To view from where painter Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas and, as importantly, where the pigment is omitted, Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there.
1997
48 page exhibition catalog
Photographs, 10 color plates
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
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Ces Merveilleux Carnets de Voyages
Sam Scott: Carnets d'Amazonie
by Farid Abdelouahab
This magnificently illustrated book traces the history of trave dairies from the earliest, sometimes crede, collections of drawings and notes to volumes that are today considered works of art in and of themselves. From scientists on expeditions to soldiers on colonial missions, from explorers on the high seas to artists in the jungle readers will find fascinating journals of astonishing beauty, some of them never before revealed to the public. This volume takes you on a voyage colored with the wonders and the discoveries of the last five hundred years, exploring an artistic territory in a constant state of flux.
2004
Printed by Archival Studio, Paris
12.8 X 9.8 inches with 232 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 3938265191
French edition published by Readers Digest
English, Dutch, Flemish, German and Spanish translations
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Georgia O'Keefe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes,
and Fredrick W. Turner
Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. The book examines the magnifience of O'Keefe's work through essays by three noted authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keefe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her.
2004
Sam Scott, pp. 113-19
10.8 X 9.3 inches with 144 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 100-691-11659-8
Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford
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Abstract Art : The New Mexico Artist Series
Stuart Ashman, Curator
Suzanne Deats, Artist Profiles
Abstract Art presents a thoughtful sampling of the range and sheer variety of abstract art being produced in New Mexico today. Over 200 full color images reflect the vigor and originality of artists whose work compares favorably with that being produced in major metropolitan art centers. Stuart Ashman's essay covers the development of modern art in the state.
2003
Sam Scott, pp. 74-80, color plates
12 X 9.5 inches with 256 pages
Softcover: ISBN 0-9741023-1-8
Fresco Fine Arts Publications, Albuquerque, NM
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Adventures with ED : A Portrait of Abbey
by Jack Loeffler
No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction an nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closent friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of life. To read Loeffler's account of his best pal's life and work is to join in their friendship.
2001
Sam Scott, pp. 128, 218
8.5 X 7.3 inches with 308 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 0-8263-2387-1
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
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How, Then, Shall We Live?
by Wayne Muller
One of the hazards of a reflective life is to grope for answers before you've asked the right questions. Wayen Muller, a minister, therapis and bestselling author has taken a stab at asksing the big questions: Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? What is my gift to the family of the Earth? Following each of these questions are some of the most tender and luminous discussions one could hope to ponder. More than a monastery for the armchair seeker, this has potential to be a mind-altering book with permanent impact.
1995
Sam Scott, p. 91
9.3 X 5.3 inches with 304 pages
Softcover: ISBN 0553375059
Bantam Books
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Santa Fe Art
by Simone Ellis
This is a coffee table sized book that celebrates the amazing art which has come from Santa Fe, New Mexico over the last century. Contains 93 full color and 12 black-and-white illustrations. Informative text provedes an insight into the strles evolving from this Southwestern mecca for artists. Includes The Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores, Georgia O'Keefe, and Fritz Scholder. Surveys the work of over 70 artists.
1993 (2nd Ed.2003)
Sam Scott, p. 64; color plate, p. 84
8.9 X 7.3 inches with 112 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 18542246670 (1st Ed.)
Hardcover: ISBN 1572153709 (2nd.Ed.)
Cresent Books/Random House
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Artists of 20th-Century New Mexico
Museum of Fine Arts Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1992
Sam Scott, p. 120; color illustration
11.5 X 9.8 inches with 167 pages
Softcover: ISBN 0890132305
Museum of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
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