some art books

 in my job i see and deal with a lot of exhibition catalogs (publications put out by museums to accompany major exhibitions) but i rarely sit down and read them cover to cover. recently, i did so with two.

( The Sassoons )

( Frolic of the Mind: The Illustrious Life of Rose O'Neill )

( Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature )

*The authors largely restrained themselves from examples of the prejudice members of the Sassoon family faced, limiting it to a single, powerful paragraph. Anyone who was unaware of Virginia Woolf's antisemitism before will not be after reading this book.

**It was the family home in Missouri, Bonniebrook, not the house in Connecticut where Harnly lived for a while. fyi.

***can't relate, but it did give me a birthday gift idea for my dad