Trials, tribulations, and testy travelers only spurred Marcia Shaver on in her 1,299,851 steps across Spain, from St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to Finisterre, Spain. Choosing well her walking companion, setting a practical pace with time to draw, and drinking in the revitalizing countryside, Marcia rediscovered her physical strength–and more. From the depths of her soul rose her true nature as the Pilgrim’s Way nurtured it and let it shine forth. Marcia’s can-do, let’s-have-fun spirit transports the easy-chair traveler–and will send many a reader on the same journey of the body and soul.
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Burning Forest: The Art of Marie Frank Abrams is a crucial addition to the literature of modernism in America and its expression among European exiles such as Marie Frank Abrams (b. 1924) in Seattle during the mid-twentieth century. With a preface by Peter Selz and foreword by Holocaust expert Deborah E. Lipstadt, Matthew Kangas’s new monograph deepens our vision of how Pacific Northwest art developed and flourished. In this lavishly illustrated study, art critic Matthew Kangas chronicles Abrams’s evolution from adored child artist to Holocaust survivor to second-generation Northwest School artist and late-blooming geometric abstract painter. Drawing intensively upon the artist’s interviews and oral histories, as well as family archives and photographs, Kangas makes the case for Abrams as an overlooked transitional figure in Pacific Northwest art: from “mystic” adherent to sophisticated, European-inspired modernist.

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