The New York Times named our book Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II a recommended art gift book this year. The hearty and handsome collection is a great gift idea for folk art fans and history buffs. Both volumes I and II are available on the Yale University Press website.
Congratulations to Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945 Rene Barilleaux and the McNay Art Museum staff on receiving the 2011 Mitchell A. Wilder Design Competition Best of Show Gold Award for the exhibition catalogue New Image Sculpture. Sponsored by the Texas Association of Museums, The 32nd annual competition received 40 entries from across the state of Texas.
Marquand Books produced New Image Sculpture for the McNay, designed by Jeff Wincapaw. The 128-page publication accompanied the museum’s recent exhibition New Image Sculpture: Extraordinary Sculptures of Ordinary Objects.
The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it is the recipient of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) annual Award for Excellence in the category of museum exhibitions for The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy. Awarded the prize in the category of “Outstanding Small Exhibition,” the critically acclaimed exhibition was organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, in association with FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange). This marks the first time that the DMA has been honored by the AAMC for one of its exhibitions.
Marquand Books produced the catalogue for the exhibition, designed by Zach Hooker and distributed by Yale University Press.
The Marquand Books-produced Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man by Martin Clayton and Ron Philo just won a British Book Design and Production Award for best exhibition catalogue. Many congratulations to designer John Hubbard and the Royal Collection Publications team!
For a full list of 2010 winners click here.
Each year, the American Association of Museums sponsors the Museum Publications Design Competition. This year, 700 entries were submitted. We are not a museum, and therefore are not eligible to enter our work. In fact, we don’t usually know which of our books have been entered, so it’s always a delightful surprise to win!
Marquand Books was honored with four awards for our books and exhibition catalogues produced in 2009. Our Design Director, Jeff Wincapaw, was responsible for three of the wins.
Good design is a collaborative process, and we are fortunate to have talented and engaged clients. The museum directors, curators, publications directors, artists, photographers, writers, editors, and production and administrative support involved in these exhibitions and publications deserve credit as well. Our pre-press partner, iocolor, always makes us look good, as do the printers we work with. Many thanks to them all.
Cézanne and American Modernism
The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art
Marquand Books designs and produces fine illustrated books for art museums, galleries, trade publishers, artists, collectors, and architects.
