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Note: Discounted prices for Johnson Museum members are listed for select titles.
$45.00/$40.00
A Handbook of the Collections (2018)
The Johnson Museum’s third handbook of the permanent collection, with 218 curatorial entries on more than 350 artworks in the collection. 352 pages, softcover.
$35.00/$30.00
Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder
Catalogue of the 2023 exhibition celebrating the multifaceted legacy of Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) and the Natural History, considered the “first encyclopedia” in the Western tradition. 152 pages, softcover.
$20.00/$15.00
On Our Backs | Berenice Abbott: Cornell Photography Collections in Dialogue
Catalogue for Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine (Cornell University Library) and Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Women, 1925–1930 (Johnson Museum), including an introduction by critic Andy Grundberg, Class of 1969. 64 pages, softcover.
$20.00/$15.00
Tong Yang-Tze: Immortal at the River
Catalogue of the 2020 solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist Tong Yang-Tze. 64 pages, softcover.
$30.00/$25.00
Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings
Catalogue of the 2017 exhibition which traveled to the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, in addition to the Johnson Museum. Winner of the College Art Association’s 2019 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Book Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections and Exhibitions; the 2018 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts; and an International Fine Print Dealers Association Book Award honorable mention. 224 pages, softcover.
$35.00/$30.00
JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970
Catalogue of the 2016 exhibition which traveled to the Crocker Art Museum in addition to the Johnson Museum, with contributions by Nancy E. Green, Neil Harris, Hina Hirayama, Christopher Reed, Steve Ridgely, Alicia Volk, and Bert Winther-Tamaki. 296 pages, hardcover.
$75.00
The Edward Arthur Metzger Gem Collection
Collection catalogue of gemstones, jewelry, and watches assembled by Edward Arthur Metzger, son of Herman “Ham” Metzger, Cornell Class of 1921, which was bequeathed to the Johnson Museum. 415 pages, hardcover.
$30.00/$25.00
Power, Haunting, and Resilience
This 2017 exhibition catalogue by An-yi Pan and Yung-Jen Liu of the Johnson Museum’s second collaboration with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, features work by fourteen Taiwanese artists. 160 pages, softcover.
$35.00/$30.00
Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan
A 2014 exhibition catalogue by An-yi Pan jointly organized by the Johnson Museum of Art and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. 224 pages, softcover.
$20.00
Storm Tharp | Third Person
This catalogue of the 2013 Johnson Museum exhibition by Tharp (Cornell BFA 1992) includes an essay by Jon Raymond and a conversation between the artist and Reed College curator Stephanie Snyder.
$20.00
Mirror of the City: The Printed View in Italy and Beyond, 1450–1940
This 2012 exhibition drew mainly from the Johnson Museum’s permanent collection. 120 pages, hardcover.
$15.00
Witness: Twentieth-Century Photographic Images from the Collection of Gary and Ellen Davis
Sixteen artists drawn from the collection of Gary Davis ’76 and Ellen Davis. 48 pages, hardcover.
$70.00 from Cornell University Press
Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony
Illustrated with 200 images and featuring essays by noted scholars in the fields of American art history and the Arts and Crafts movement, this book traces the origins of Byrdcliffe as nothing less than the cultural nucleus of one of America’s most legendary small towns. Edited by curator Nancy E. Green, this catalogue accompanied a 2004 exhibition organized by the Johnson Museum of Art. 248 pages, 2015 hardcover edition.
$35.00 from Cornell University Press
A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
This companion catalogue to an acclaimed 2008 exhibition organized by the Johnson Museum of Art in includes more than 300 illustrations and essays by Bloomsbury scholars Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Mark Hussey, Benjamin Harvey, Christopher Reed, and curator Nancy E. Green. 272 pages, hardcover.
$50.00 from Cornell University Press
Identity Crisis: Reflections on Public and Private Life in Contemporary Javanese Photography
Copublished by the Johnson Museum and Afterhours Books, Jakarta, this 2017 exhibition catalogue by Brian Arnold was the first in the United States to focus on the emergence of photography as an art form in Java, Indonesia. 134 pages, softcover.