Elusive Nature / Naturaleza Esquiva, David S Rubin, curator. A Cultural Presentation of the United States of America

David S. Rubin, curator, Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 1996

Spanish and English, Good staplebound art exhibition catalog, 8vo, 8 1/4" x 10 3/4", unpaginated. 

Good 8vo, 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" staplebound art exhibition catalog in black wraps with gray leaf design and gold lettering to front, gold frontis with embossed leaf design, gold interior wrap to back. Heavy shelfwear and some creasing to front and back, creasing to spine, chip at top edge to back, some chipping at bottom edge to front, textblock is sunned, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. Unpaginated. Replete with 15 full-color plates by artists Eva Bovenzi, Katherine Bowling, Michael Kessler, Timothy McDowell, Joan Nelson and Andrew Young. Thumbnail photographs of each artist. Foreword by James K Ballinger, Director Phoenix Museum of Art. This book is a Cultural Presentation of the United States of America at the Cuenca Bienal of Painting 1996. From the private library of Whitney Chadwick and Robert Bechtle.