Appendix 3
BOOKS
EDITED
as Managing Editor or
Editorial Consultant
(before 1988)
1971 PIONNIERS DU XXe SIECLE:
GUIMARD, HORTA, VAN DE VELDE
Paris: Musée des Arts Décoratifs
(editorial consultant & member of the organizing committee)
NOTE: The heart of this exhibition was the MoMA Guimard show of 1970 which was the first Guimard retrospective ever organized. The most important outcome of this exhibition in Paris is that Guimard's works (metros, buildings. etc.), which were being destroyed, were declared historical monuments.
~ FLG
1972 THE COLOR OF MOOD:
AMERICAN TONALISM 1880-1910
by Wanda Corn
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
(commissioning editor, managing editor & author of the foreword)
NOTE: The first book on this subject & still a standard reference.
The history of the legendary TONALISM exhibition has been told by its curator, Wanda Corn, as a chapter in Simpson, ed., LIKE BREATH ON GLASS: WHISTLER, INNESS, AND THE ART OF PAINTING SOFTLY, 2008.
~ FLG
1974 THE ART OF ANDREW WYETH
by Wanda Corn, et al.
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums & New York Graphic Society.
BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB
(commissioning editor & managing editor for FAMSF)
NOTE: The first book to place Wyeth in a comprehensive arthistorical context. Over 700,000 copies were sold during the 1970s.
~ FLG
1975 RODIN GRAPHICS:
A CATALOGUE RAISONNE
OF DRYPOINTS & BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS
by Victoria Thorson
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
(concept originator, commissioning editor & managing editor)
1976 AMERICAN ART:
AN EXHIBITION FROM THE COLLECTION OF
MR & MRS JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 3rd
by E. P. Richardson
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
& Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(concept originator, commissioning editor & managing editor)
NOTE: This was the first public exhibition of what was considered the world’s most important private collection of American paintings. After a negotiation of several years, a secret negotiation involving only Mr. Rockefeller & his curator E.P. Richardson with Ian White & his curator FLG, the collection was later donated to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
~ FLG
1976 IMAGES FOR ETERNITY:
EGYPTIAN ART FROM BERKELEY AND BROOKLYN
by Richard Fazzini
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
(managing editor)
1977 RODIN'S SCULPTURE:
A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE SPRECKELS COLLECTION
by Jacques de Caso
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
(concept originator, commissioning editor & managing editor until 1976)
1978 “SACRED ART OF THE WORLD” SERIES
Boulder: Shambhala Publications
(concept originator & editorial consultant)
NOTE: Intended to gather into one library set facsimile editions of great books from all spiritual traditions. Owing to copyright issues, only two facsimile editions were published, both by William Blake.
~ FLG
1979 TREASURES OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
IN SAN FRANCISCO: OFFICIAL GUIDE
San Francisco: California Living Books
(concept originator & editorial consultant)
NOTE: Over 300,000 copies were sold during the exhibition.
This was the first $1 “color catalogue” by an American museum.
~ FLG
1981 & 1986 & 1989 & 1992 & 1996
TAKING THE QUANTUM LEAP:
THE NEW PHYSICS FOR NONSCIENTISTS
by Fred Alan Wolf
San Francisco: Harper
(agent & editorial consultant)
NOTE: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, 1982
1987 FRENCH PAINTINGS 1500-1825
by Pierre Rosenberg & Marion C. Stewart
San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums
(commissioning editor & first managing editor until 1976)
NOTE: Rosenberg was later Director of The Louvre.
1998 EDGAR DEGAS, PHOTOGRAPHER
by Malcolm Daniel, et al.
New York: Abrams & Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, & the
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
(editorial consultant)
NOTE: This was the first exhibition of Degas as a photographer. FLG began his study of Degas photographs during the mid 1960s under the guidance of A. Hyatt Mayor, Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Because of his expertise in this field, FLG was hired during the early 1990s by The Getty Museum to explore the possibility of an exhibition by compiling a research report on all the surviving original Degas photographs in the United States and Europe as well as a comprehensive bibliography. FLG’s pioneering research papers have been donated to the Photography Department of the MMA.
~ GKS