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PFA Press announces its new book, Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers from the Collection of Warren and Julie Payne.

The book showcases block prints, etchings and lithographs created by 58 artists from 1828 to 2004, many from the WPA era. The artists featured have strong ties to such Kentucky places as Bellevue, Berea, Covington, Crestwood, Danville, Frankfort, Franklin, Glasgow, Harlan, Harrodsburg, Henderson, Lebanon, Lexington, Louisville, Madisonville, Manchester, Paducah, Paris, Prestonsburg, Smithland, Springfield, Versailles and more.

There is a special section at the end of the book of images of Federal Hill in Bardstown, My Old Kentucky Home. Artists also depict Abraham Lincoln’s “birthplace,” a toll gate in the Bluegrass, Natural Bridge State Park, shanty-boats on the Ohio River and a covered bridge in Frankfort.

Some of the artists will be familiar – Jouett, Duveneck, Hubbard, Brenner, Sawyier – but many readers never will have heard of most of these important Kentucky and Kentucky-related artists.

All of the 67 images are black and white and from the collection of Warren and Julie Payne of Louisville.

It will be sold in bookstores and museums after they open, but you can order this 136-page book here or on Amazon and eBay.

$35 plus $2.10 sales tax if you're in Kentucky and $5 postage. TOTAL: $42.10. We can invoice you on Paypal or you can mail us a check. Contact us.

Artists included:

Joe Adams

Maud Ainslie

Arthur Allen

Ann Stewart Anderson

Malcolm Arnett

Fritz Bade

Alfred Laurens Brennan

Carl Brenner

Darrell W. Brothers

Carl Brown

Joe Downing

Carolyn Dunbar

Frank Duveneck

EdWill Fisher

Edward Fisk

L.O. Griffith

C. Winston Haberer

Kent Hagerman

John Wezley Haywood

E. Sophonisba Hergesheimer

Ruth Hibbs-Hyland

Anna and Harlan Hubbard

E.T. Hurley

Elizabeth Rusk Jones

Matthew Harris Jouett

Wallace Kelly

L.H. King

Norman Kohlhepp

Beatrice Levy

Frank Long

C.P. Maltman

Albert Graeme Mitchell

F. Townsend Morgan

Clifford H. Morton II

Mary Spencer Nay

Paul E. Nonnast

Kenneth Ozier

Grover Page

Ralph Pearson

William Ranney

C. Cregor Reid

Frank Robbins

Paul Sample

Paul Sawyier

Mary W. Schachner

Nellie Schanzenbacher

Ralph Fletcher Seymour

Howard Simon

Walter Sorge

John A. Spelman III

Clyde Stringfield

Glen Tracy

Edward Troye

A.J. Van Leshout

Robert Wathen

Ulfert Wilke

Louise Wilkinson

Thomas Waterman Wood

Louisville Modern: an era in art tells the story of the art scene in the Louisville, Kentucky-Southern Indiana area from the 1940s through the 1960s. It is both a personal account and an art-historical overview of a period that many categorize now as Mid-century Modern.

The book begins with the story of Madeline Covi, who experienced that scene firsthand. Her essay is followed by biographies of some of the artists who played major roles, some of whom went on to international renown and some of whom are still active. It was an interesting period. The art community was made up of woman’s club members, so-called society matrons, “Sunday painters,” housewives, commercial artists, university kids and their teachers, African Americans, GI Bill veterans and refugees from German oppression. It was a story that needed telling.

Artists discussed in the Covi essay include: Carl Brenner, Marcia Hite, Morris Belknap Jr., Worden Day, Juro Kubicek, Carl Holty, Edgard Pillet, Wayne Begley, Sally Drummond, Robert Carter, Ken Young, Pablo Picasso, Alfred Zalon, Leo Zimmerman, Constantin Brancusi, Franzee Dolbeare, Boris Margo, Carlos Merida, Charles Crodel, Charles James Wright, Donald Anderson, Aaron Siskin, Robert Doherty, Dan Boles, Gilles Giantini, Sam Richards, Tom and Virginia Marsh, Karl Martz and Heiki Seppa.

Artist biographies include: Maud Ainslie, Mary Louise Baringer, Fayette Barnum, Lou Block, Barney Bright, Orville Carroll, Paul Childers, Henry Chodkowski, G.C. Coxe, Mary Ann Currier, Lucy Diecks, William L. Fischer, Marguerite Gifford, Sam Gilliam, Charles Goodwin, Mary Alice Hadley, Ed Hamilton, The Hennings, The Kohlhepps. Romuald Kraus, Eugene "Bud" Leake Jr., Doris Leist, Alma Lesch, Frank Long, Marion Long, LaVerne Mahorney, Mary Spencer Nay, Jane Morton Norton, The Petersons, Paul Plaschke, John Prangnell, Charlotte Price, Martin Shallenberger, Walter Sorge, Bob Thompson, Ann Troutman, Ulfert Wilke, Constance Clark Willis and Wolf Zingraff.

*Clear as Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery*

edited by

Warren Payne

2010

Out of print

Clear as Mud is an award-winning look at art pottery produced in Kentucky in the first half of the 20th century. It deals with such potteries as Cornelison Bybee, Waco, the Bybee Pottery Co. of Lexington (Selden-Bybee, Genuine Bybee), Louisville Pottery Co. (Cherokee), Kenton Hills Porcelains and Hadley. Such other ceramics as art tile, drain-tile premiums and Western Kentucky's "pinch pots" are included.

The book places in context what was going on in the commonwealth with what was happening in the rest of the South, especially North Carolina and Georgia, and touches on the influences brought onto the regional scene.

Each chapter is written by a known collector or scholar and contains a concise history of the pottery, including, if possible, known potters, dates of operation, catalogs, etc. In some cases the histories overlap or conflict; much that is known is not as clear as one would like, which explains our title. Also included are known marks and tips on identifying unmarked pottery.

Clear as Mud was the recipient of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze for Best South-East Regional Non-Fiction and a 2011 Kentucky History Award from the Kentucky Historical Society.