Pat Steir: Paintings, 2018–2025

Name: Pat Steir: Paintings, 2018–2025
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783907493144
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A stunning new monograph dedicated to recent work by American artist Pat Steir, counted among the great innovators of contemporary painting. This illustrated monograph features the most recent paintings by renowned American artist Pat Steir (b. 1938). Recognized for her iconic 'Waterfall' paintings of poured and... Read More

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Pat Steir: Paintings, 2018–2025

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Description

A stunning new monograph dedicated to recent work by American artist Pat Steir, counted among the great innovators of contemporary painting.

This illustrated monograph features the most recent paintings by renowned American artist Pat Steir (b. 1938). Recognized for her iconic 'Waterfall' paintings of poured and cascaded paint that challenge and transcend the divide between figuration and abstraction, Steir's enduringly original paintings, drawings, prints, and installations have been exhibited internationally since the early 1960s.

Pat Steir: Paintings, 2018–2025 encompasses a generative period of the eighty-seven-year-old artist's paintings, which included her largest installation to date—organised by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.—where Steir transformed the museum's circular gallery into an immersive 'Color Wheel.'

A transcript of a conversation between the artist and curator Evelyn C. Hankins is published here, alongside images of Steir's innovative exhibition. In 2019, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, presented Steir's site-specific installation, 'Silent Secret Waterfalls.' This suite of lyrical paintings evoking wind and water is also memorialised in this book, which opens with a poetic reflection from award-winning author Colm Tóibín on this remarkable chapter of Steir's art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783907493144

Publisher: Hauser & Wirth

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 September 2025

Country: Switzerland

Imprint: Hauser & Wirth

Illustration: 167 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Interviewee Pat Steir
Interviewee Evelyn C. Hankins
Text by Colm Tóibín

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 2080g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Evelyn C. Hankins is head curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Pat Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to painting-the rigorous pouring technique seen in her 'Waterfall' works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism-attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in the both the visual and literary realms, Steir's storied five-decade career continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.

Colm Tóibín is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.