Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil Paintings
Second edition, expanded, including new work

Jim Edwards
William Peterson

"Sam Scott is and always has been a painter in pursuit of Beauty. This is an uncomfortable phrase to the cynical, but Scott's beauty resides only at great depths. It is hard-won and tentative. It emerges for this artist from the shadows as well as by the light of his noon Santa Fe sky. When he leaves the comfort of home, working in ways that are new to him, Scott travels well and freely. He generously reveals to us with his mark how it went and who he met along the way.

"Acknowledging teachers in his past, Philip Guston, in quirky line and bold form, Nathan Olivera's figural stance and Clyfford Still, the impossible task-master, Sam Scott cherishes their presence in his life and work. He will never forget. But Scott alone paints with such a generous heart and truth in his own unique mark, that if one is lucky enough to experience both the artist and his work, it becomes vastly clear that Camus was right."--Jennifer Doran, Robischon Gallery, Denver

Jim Edwards has curated nationally recognized exhibitions for the San Antonio Museum of Art and co-curated the exhibition "Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956?1966" for The Menil Collection in Houston. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he is curator of exhibitions at the Salt Lake Art Center.

William Peterson is an art historian, critic, and editor. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s he was the editor and publisher of Artspace magazine, a critical journal of contemporary art published in Albuquerque and later Los Angeles.

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9.5 x 11.5 112 pages 90 color plates and photographs