John Baeder's Road Well Taken (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780865653191)

A fascinating trip through the evocative remnants of a vanishing America, this book is also a portrait of an artist who has captured the nostalgic essence of what's been lost. In 1972, John Baeder (b. 1938) left a career on Madison Avenue to become a full-time painter, gambling his livelihood on art dealer Ivan Karp's evaluation of his first four canvases: a diner, a motel, a gas station, a tourist camp. Based on color postcards in his growing collection of roadside memorabilia, they launched a career that put him at the forefront of the growing photorealist movement. Baeder's paintings, particularly of classic diners, were an immediate success, and he scoured the country for prime examples to document before they disappeared. Here, Jay Williams recounts the inside story of Baeder's multifaceted career. With more than 300 illustrations of his highly collectible paintings, watercolors, vintage photographs, printed ephemera, and three-dimensional memorabilia, this is an artist's journey, traveled along the back highways of the United States.


Author: Jay Williams
ISBN-10: 0865653194
ISBN-13: 9780865653191
Publisher: Vendome Press
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2015
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.95lbs
Size: 10.20h x 10.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 75