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 With
full color reproductions of all 180 portraits
that Rose Frantzen painted of her fellow residents of Maquoketa, Iowa,
this 100 page book is a beautiful document of Rose's
year-long project in which she invited anyone in Maquoketa to be
painted from life. Portrait
of Maquoketa was exhibited for eight months in
2009/2010 at the
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and at the Figge Art
Museum in Davenport, Iowa Oct. 27, 2012 through Jan. 20, 2013. Click here for more details about and images
of
Portrait of Maquoketa.
The Portrait of Maquoketa book includes essays and comments by Brandon Brame Fortune, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery; Richard Schmid, painter and author of Alla Prima; essayist Suzanne Kelsey; Rose Frantzen, commenting on her creative process; and an overview of Frantzen's life and career by her husband, artist Charles Morris. This career overview includes color reproductions of more than 40 works by Frantzen. Also featured throughout the book is a flip animation of one of the portraits, which was photographed every 7 minutes from start to finish.  This hardbound coffee table book is 10.5 x 10.5", printed on acid free cover stock on the Heidelberg press at Maquoketa Web Printing in Maquoketa, Iowa and was made possible by a grant from The Ceres Trust.  *
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The Portrait of Maquoketa book is $49.95 and credit card orders can be placed by calling 563-321-8671 from 11 am to 7 pm CST. |
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