Books published by Tacoma Art Museum

Born in Washington State, Vanessa Helder's (1904-1968) career spanned several periods of major change in American art, from the advent of modernism in the early part of the 20th century to the rise of abstraction in the post-war years. This book presents a survey of Vanessa Helder's life and artistic career.

Throughout her six-decade career, Camille Patha's painting has oscillated between the figurative and the abstract. Patha began painting gestural abstraction in the 1960s then deliberately explored various painting styles, including hard-edged abstraction and surrealist-infused photorealism and, finally, a return to abstraction.

An examination of Victoria Adams' exquisite landscape scenes.

Haffer found success as a photographer, printmaker, painter, musician, sculptor, and published writer

Contains essays that examine the changing definition of global trade and its impact on all nations and cultures.

A scholarly examination of the career of the renowned artist Nancy Worden.