Viola Frey: Artist's Mind

Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/Worldedited by Cynthia de Bos and Jenelle Porterpublished by Artists’ Legacy Foundation and Gregory R. Miller & Co. lead funding provided by the Henry Luce Foundationfeaturing essays by Nancy Lim, Jenelle Porter, and Jodi Throckmorton, an expanded chronology by Cynthia de Bos, and personal writings by the Viola Frey with Charles Fiske. In the late 1980s, American artist Viola Frey (1933–2004) began a series of drawings she titled Artist’s Mind/Studio/World. Although she is best known for her large-scale figurative sculptures in clay, it is these pastels on paper that inspired this first monograph on Frey’s extraordinary work. Spanning more than 50 years, Frey’s art making crisscrossed myriad subjects, mediums and forms. Taken together, the Artist’s Mind/Studio/World drawings speak to this breadth, clarifying her devotion to line, color and scale, and demonstrating the ways she seamlessly transitioned from three dimensions to two, and from the intima