{"title":"Marley Kaul","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"letters-to-isabella-1","title":"Letters to Isabella","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarley Kaul's stunning new book \u003ci\u003eLetters to Isabella: Paintings by Marley Kaul\u003c\/i\u003e presents seventy-seven egg tempera works each accompanied by a letter written to his granddaughter. It offers beautiful full color reproductions of his paintings and is an intimate look at his artistic process and the unique personal and professional influences reflected in his work. In 2003 Marley learned he would become a grandfather. He thought about his granddaughter to be and wondered if he would still be around years from now to tell her about himself in person or if she would have to speculate about his life and art after he was gone. He decided that in case he was unable to be there when she grew up he would compose a letter to her so she could read it later and know a little more about him. As time went on Marley got to know his granddaughter quite well but he continued writing her the letters filling them with his advice insights and descriptions of his painting techniques. These letters and the colorful egg tempera paintings they refer to come together now in this vibrant art book. This fine art book features 77 vivid color plates on the highest quality archival paper. (168 Pages with lay-flat Perfect Binding PUR)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarley Kaul\u003c\/strong\u003e is considered a contemporary master in a medium valued for its crisp vibrant colors and its luminosity. Tempera is one of the oldest mediums in painting and consists of dry pigment water and egg yolk.\n\u003cp\u003eThough Kaul's subjects center on his home in Northern Minnesota: the wildlife outside his kitchen window the birds lighting at his backyard feeder and other domestic subjects his artistic concepts have revolved around ecological issues and what he witness every day in his yard garden and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised on a farm in Good Thunder Minnesota Kaul earned a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. From 1967-1997 he taught painting and drawing at Bemidji State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis paintings are in collections including the North Dakota Museum of Art Plains Art Museum Minnesota Historical Society 3M Collections Tweed Museum of Art the Anderson Center and Weisman Art Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarley paints daily in his studio near Lake Bemidji.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"THE BOOK OF LOVE...inspired by his granddaughter a Bemidji painter offers life lessons and lyrical observations of rural Minnesota in a beautiful volume.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMary Abbe\u003c\/strong\u003e art critic \u003cem\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e 12\/08\/15\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLetters to Isabella \u003c\/i\u003eis a stunning and deeply felt book beautiful in both writing and image...\" \u2028\u003ci\u003e- \u003cb\u003eRobert Hedin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author translator and editor of twenty-four books of poetry and prose including The Light Under The Door. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marley Kaul is a contemporary egg tempera master... His work in both content and energy emphasizes his connection with natural forms and poetic metaphor.\" \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurel Reuter\u003c\/b\u003e is the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the North Dakota Museum of Art. Reuter and has curated countless exhibitions ranging from \"Light and Shadow: Japanese Artists in Space\" (1992) to \"The Disappeared\" (2005). Publications include \u003cem\u003eWhole Cloth \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMarking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marley Kaul has taken a unique approach to the identity issue─theme and critique─central to contemporary art since the nineties. He has pierced a hole in the blatant strident political side of \"identity\" and has brought us personally home to a place of the heart. Through his stewardship of his rural land and knowledge of plants and animals he has offered metaphors about the principled practice of art and life and the changing aspects of growing and seeing.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e -\u003c\/i\u003e Sarah Clark-Langage\u003c\/b\u003er is the retired longtime director of Western Gallery at Western Washington University Bellingham Washington and is the author of \u003cem\u003eSculpture in Place: A Campus as Site Isamu Noguchi and Skyviewing Sculpture \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCritical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A unique and absolutely fascinating art book \u003cem\u003eLetters To Isabella\u003c\/em\u003e presents and showcases a truly impressive body of work and commentary. Very highly recommended for personal community and academic library Contemporary Art collections it should be noted that \u003cem\u003eLetters To Isabella\u003c\/em\u003e would also aptly serve as an example or template for other artists to similarly present their own life work and insights to a grateful and appreciative readership.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Dumont\u003c\/strong\u003e Reviewer \u003cem\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mill Studio Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321560309910,"sku":"9780692502310","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_bb4a3843-2096-4089-bf13-9407644e9862.jpg?v=1642156481"},{"product_id":"marley-kaul-paintings-2","title":"Marley Kaul Paintings","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarley Kaul may be one of the most devoted master painters you have not yet heard of. Or he may be an artist and a teacher-philosopher you have admired and learned from during his long life as a painter. This book serves as his final exhibition. A dazzling celebration of color and artistic expression, the retrospective presents more than 300 images of paintings created from 1961, before Kaul became an art professor, to 2021, the year he died. Kaul's body of work includes paintings rendered in acrylic, casein, oil, gouache, watercolor, and egg tempera, done on canvas, paper, and wood panels. His wife, art curator and weaver Sandra Staehle Kaul; son Stephen Kaul; and daughter, Allison Kaul DeLeone, organized this collection of artworks and writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book introduces Marley Kaul by sketching his biography and his painting process. Artist Lou Ferreri offers his view of Kaul's process, observed in the days when they shared a studio at the University of Oregon. From there, the book unfolds chronologically--from mid-20th century to early 21st century--with each chapter showing paintings from particular periods. Throughout the arc of his artistic life, Kaul wrote about his paintings and his craft. Each chapter includes a number of those insights, instructions, and musings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarley Kaul, Paintings\u003c\/em\u003e is a synthesis of all that he accomplished as an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mill Studio Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50310392348989,"sku":"9781732389434","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781732389434ita_459017a6-28b8-422a-b465-24b7f2afe550.jpg?v=1746461592"}],"url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/collections\/marley-kaul.oembed","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}