Bibliography

PHILIP C. CURTIS EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

  • Philip C. Curtis. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949.
  • Philip C. Curtis. Essay by John Russell. Phoenix, Arizona: Phoenix Art Museum, 1962.
  • Philip C. Curtis, Paintings. Essays by F.M. Hinkhouse and John Russell. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum. 1963.
  • The Art of Philip C. Curtis. Essays by John Hopkins. Flagstaff: Art Gallery, Northern Arizona University, 1967.
  • Suites 16: Philip C. Curtis. Geneva: Galerie Krugier et Cie, 1967.
  • Philip C. Curtis. Essays by Clare Boothe Luce and John Russell. Tempe: Arizona State University Art Museum. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1970.
  • Philip C. Curtis. Essays by Henry J. Seldis and Fredrick W. Sleight. Palm Springs, California: The Palm Springs Desert Museum (traveling), 1971.
  • Arizona International ’75. Ronald Hickman. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1975.
  • Contemporary Artists of the American West. Essay by Sara Sheldon. Santa Fe: Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, 1977.
  • Philip C. Curtis. Essays by James K. Ballinger, James McLaughlin and Charles Parkhurst. Scottsdale, Arizona: Scottsdale Center for the Arts (traveling), 1978.
  • Philip C. Curtis, An Exhibition. Essay by James Todd. Phoenix: The Arizona Bank, 1986.
  • Philip C. Curtis, Known and Unknown: A Retrospective Exhibition 1947-1987. Scottsdale, Arizona: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1988.
  • Philip C. Curtis Paintings, 1962-1988.
  • Essays by Barbara Cortright and Edward Jacobson. Scottsdale, Arizona: Marilyn Butler Fine Arts, 1989.
  • Philip C. Curtis: The Return. Essay by John Armstrong. Albion, Michigan: Bobbitt Visual Arts Center, Albion College, 1991.
  • Philip C. Curtis, And Time Stood Still: An Exhibition of Selected Works. Scottsdale, Arizona: Riva Yares Gallery, 1993.
  • A Procession: Paintings by Philip C. Curtis from the Valley Collections. Heather Sealy Linberry, Tempe: University Art Museum, Arizona State University, 1997.
  • Philip C. Curtis, American Master: Enigma in Red and Gold. Essay by Don Gray. Surprise, Arizona: West Valley Art Museum, 2000.
  • Philip C. Curtis: A Life. Essay by Edward Lucie-Smith. Scottsdale, Arizona: Riva Yares Gallery, 2003.
  • Philip C. Curtis: Watercolors. Essay by Susan Krane. Scottsdale, Arizona: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.
  • Philip C. Curtis Sound and Silence. Bille Wickre, editor. Albion, Michigan: Bobbitt Visual arts Center, Albion College, 2007.

BOOKS ARTICLES AND OTHER MEDIA

  • Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard. “New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy.” 1986, 1995. Webster’s World of Cultural Democracy. www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html.
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  • Arnold, Ben. “ Music in Lancaster Kentucky, 1885-1910: Local Talent, Touring Artists, and the Opera House.” In Essays in American Music 2, Michael Saffle, ed. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1998.
  • Ashton, Dore. The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
  • Baldassari, Anna. The Surrealist Picasso. Riehen and Basel: Foundation Beyeler, 2005.
  • Bermingham, Peter. A New Deal for the Southwest. Tuscon: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1980.
  • Bianconi, Piero. All the Paintings of Piero della Francesca, The Complete Library of World Art 5, trans. Paul Colacicchi. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1962.
  • Brewer, James W. (Jr). Jerome: Story of Mines, Men, and Money. Western National Parks Association, 1993.
  • Broder, Patricia Janis. Great Paintings of the Old American West. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979.
  • Brown, Betty Ann. Gradiva’s Mirror: Reflections on Women, Surrealism and Art History. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2002.
  • Caws, Mary Ann. Surrealism. London: Phaidon Press, 2004.
  • Clark, Art and Richard Snodgrass. Ballad of a Laughing Mountain Jerome, Arizona. Tempe, Arizona: Counterpoint Productions, 1991.
  • Clark, Kenneth. Piero Della Francesca. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1951.
  • Clements, Eric L. After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2003.
  • Clemmer, David. Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Schenck Southwest Publishing, 2003.
  • Cook, Albert. Temporalizing Space: The Triumphant Strategies of Piero della Francesca. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992.
  • Cortrigth, Barbara. “Artist Phil Curtis – A Most Engaging Paradox.” Phoeinx (June 1974), 40-41, 100.
  • _____________. “ Philip C. Curtis.” Artspace: Southwestern Contemporary Art Quarterly. Summer 1978, 13-17.
  • Crawford, Richard. America’s Musical Life: A History. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2001.
  • Crowell, Nelda. “ Philip Curtis: Artist with No Regrets.” Arthritis Frontiers. October 1979, 5-6.
  • Curtis, Philip C. Correspondence with Russell Babcock, 1927-1998. Special Collections, Albion College Library.
  • _____________. Correspondence with Elise Curtis. Philip C. Curtis Trust, Scottsdale, Arizona.
  • _____________. My Boyhood, unpublished autobiography, 1975. Philip C. Curtis Trust, Scottsdale, Arizona.
  • _____________. Video taped interview for the Phoenix Art Museum.
  • De Vecchi, Pierluigi. The Complete Paintings of Piero della Francesca. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970.
  • Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front. London: Verso, 1997.
  • Dervaux, Isabelle. Surrealism USA. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004.
  • Duncan, Michael. “Heretics of the Heartland.” Art in America, vol. 94, no. 2 (February 2006): 98-103, 148.
  • Durozoi, Gerard. History of the Surrealist Movement, Alison Anderson, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
  • Eauclaire, Sally. “ Desert Ghosts.” Art News 93, no. 2 (February 1994), 85-86.
  • Ehrlich, Susan. Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957. Exhibition Catalogue, University of California, Los Angeles (traveling). 1995.
  • Faunce, Sarah C. Exhibition Review. Art News, January 1965, 20.
  • Fenwick, Henry. “The Colorful Disturbances of Philip Curtis.” Esquire Magazine, December 1982, 82-87.
  • Fer, Briony, David Batchelor, and Paul Wood. Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Open University, 1993
  • Fitzgerald, Michael, Picasso and American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007.
  • Gale, Matthew. Dada & Surrealism. London: Phaidon Press, 1997.
  • Gee, Betty. Jerome, Arizona: A Study of Coherence, Relationships, Energy, and Form. n.p., 1988, n.p.
  • “Ghosts at Noon.” Time 96, no. 14 (October 5, 1970), 76-77.
  • Gleason, Bruce. “Once Signalers in Battle, Mounted Military Bands Today Lead Ceremonial Parades,” Irish American Post, vol. 3, issue 5 (November / December 2002), n.p.
  • Goosen, E.C. Stuart Davis. New York: George Braziller, 1959.
  • Grant, Kim. Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • Greene, Terry. “Alone at Work’: The Art of Philip Curtis.” Arizona Republic (Phoenix), March 10, 1963.
  • “Hallucinations in the Desert.” Time 83, no. 22 (May 29, 1964), 60-61.
  • Harris, Steven. Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and Psyche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communists Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Hewins, Alice B. “Arizona Painters.” Unpublished field report, c. 1940.
  • Hopkins, Harry L. Report on the Works Program. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936.
  • “Jerome.” Ghosts Towns. 25 March 1998. www.ghoststowns.com
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  • Jerome Historical Society. A Ghost Tour of Jerome Arizona: America’s Largest Ghost Town. Creative Video Productions. 1989. Videocassette.
  • Jerome Arizona Historical Society. www.jeromehistoricalsociety.com.
  • “John Deforest Stull.” Artnet. www.artnet.com/artists.
  • Kachur, Lewis. “Annals of Surrealism: Dali’s Folly.” Art in America ,vol. 91, no. 10 (2003), 70-73.
  • Kelly, Tim. “Journey to a Far Country: The Art of Philip C. Curtis.” Arizona Highways 39, no. 11 (November 1963), 14-37.
  • Kitchell, Nancy, Dan Farrell Davis, and Lawrence L. Mehren, eds. An Illustrated Catalog of the Works of Philip C. Curtis. New York: Garland, 1993.
  • Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation. New York: Viking Press, 1972.
  • Lebow, Edward. “The Vision Quest of Philip C. Curtis.” Phoenix New Times 28, no. 42 (October 16-22, 1997), 24-34.
  • _____________. Interview with Janie and Rachael Ellis. Unpublished transcript, December 11, 2002.
  • _____________. Interview with Philip C. Curtis. Unpublished transcript, 1990.
  • _____________. Interview with Philip C. Curtis. Unpublished transcript, September 3, 1997.
  • Leslie, Richard. Surrealism: The Dream of Revolution. New Line Books, 2006.
  • Levitt, Annette Shandler. The Genres and Genders of Surrealism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
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  • McElvaine, Robert S. The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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  • Mahon, Alice. Surrealism and the Politics of Eros: 1938-1968. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2005.
  • Matthews, J.H. The Imagery of Surrealism. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1977.
  • Meltzer, Milton. Violins and Shovels: The WPA Arts Projects. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976.
  • Museum of Modern Art Archives. “Chart Illustrating the Development of Modern Art.” 2006. www.moma.org/research/archives/highlights/02_1936.html .
  • Neff, Emily Ballew. The Modern West: American Landscapes 1890-1950.New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2006.
  • New York School. Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Low Angeles, California. 1965.
  • Noun, Louise Rosenfield. Iowa Women in the WPA. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1999.
  • O’Conner, Francis. New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.
  • O’Conner, Francis, ed. WPA Art for the Millions: Essays from the 19230s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1973.
  • Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz. New Deal for Art. New York: The Gallery Association of New York State, Inc., 1977.
  • Philip C. Curtis: An American Original. Produced and directed by Ken Marsolais. Phoenix Art Museum, 1993. Available on video cassette or DVD.
  • Phoenix Art Museum. American Dreamer: The Art of Philip C. Curtis. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999.
  • Rabinovich, Celia. Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art. Westview Press, 2002.
  • Saab, A. Joan. For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
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  • Schwabacher, Ethel K. Arshile Gorky. New York: Macmillan for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956.
  • Sherman, James E. and Sherman, Barbara H. Ghost Towns of Arizona. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
  • Snodgrass, Richard. Ballad of a Laughing Mountain: Jerome, Arizona. Tempe, Arizona: Counterpoint Productions, 1957.
  • Stich, Sidra. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Exhibition Catalogue, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley. 1990.
  • Tashjian, Dickran. A Boatload of Madman: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
  • The Time Freeze. Produced and directed by Jose Bermudez, 1974. Film.
  • Thoman, Konrad V. A Camera Captures Jerome and the Verde Valley. Arizona: Konrad V. Thoman, 1971.
  • Topping, Gary. Ghosts Towns of the Old West. New York: M&M Books, 1992.
  • Patricia Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits: Women Painters in the American West, 1890-1945. Berkeley: Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with University of California Press, 1995.
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  • _____________. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1969.
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