Contents: Volume 1: Preface, The Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust; Acknowledgements, Suzi Villiger; Making of the Catalogue Raisonne, Suzi Villiger; Usage guide to the catalogue entries; Documenting Hofmann: Primary sources and the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Juliana Kreinik; The education of Hans Hofmann, Peter Morrin; In search of Equipoise: Hofmann's artistic negotiations, 1940-58, Marcelle Polednik; Hans Hofmann: Tradition and invention, Karen Wilkin; The Structure of imagination: Hofmann's late paintings, Paul Moorhouse; Chronology, Juliana Kreinik and Suzi Villiger with additional research by Jessie Sentivan; Notes to the essays and chronology; Exhibition history, Helen Vong; Bibliography, Helen Vong; Index of titles; Index of public collections; General index; Photography credits. Volume 2: Catalogue entries P1-P846 (1901-51). Volume 3: Catalogue entries, P847-PW89 (1952-65).
Suzi Villiger is the Editor of the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings. She serves as the Director of Membership for the Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Association. Prior to researching Hofmann, she worked with contemporary artists, including painter Terry Winters, at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, and at Paulson Press in California. She received a B.A in art history from Northwestern University and M.A. from New York University. Stacey Gershon is an independent curator and art advisor. She is a Contributing Editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, as well as the Collections Manager for the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Previously, she served as the Curator for the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. She has a B.A. in art history from New York University. Juliana D. Kreinik is a Contributing Editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings and a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches on the history of photography. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Jessie Sentivan is a Contributing Editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings. She is to be appointed the Director of Research at The Richard Pousette-Dart Estate, and will also manage the Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne Project. Helen Vong is a Contributing Editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings. She holds a M.A. in art history, with emphasis on abstraction and ornament in modern art and architecture, from Bryn Mawr College. She has contributed research to books on modern domestic dwelling and worked as curatorial researcher at the American Philosophical Society Museum in Philadelphia. Ani Boyajian, Consulting Editor of the Hans Hofmann catalogue raisonne project, was Editor of catalogues raisonnes published on Stuart Davis (Yale University Art Gallery, 2007) and Manierre Dawson (Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2011). Her curatorial work has included organizing numerous exhibitions during her tenure at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art and chairing the 47th Venice Biennale Armenian Pavilion. She holds a M.F.A. in painting and contemporary art criticism. Karen Wilkin is a New York-based curator and critic specializing in 20th century modernism. Educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, she is the author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Giorgio Morandi, and Hans Hofmann, and has organized exhibitions of their work, among others, internationally, including Hans Hofmann: Magnum Opus, a retrospective at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2013. She contributes regularly to the Hudson Review, The New Criterion, and the Wall Street Journal. Paul Moorhouse is Twentieth Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London. From 1985 to 2005, he was Curator, Modern Collection, latterly Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at Tate. A specialist in international 20th-century art, he has organised numerous exhibitions and published extensively. Recent books include A Guide to Twentieth Century Portraits (2013); Anthony Caro: Presence (2010); Gerhard Richter - Painting Appearances (2009) and Pop Art Portraits (2007). His monograph Cindy Sherman will be published in 2014. Peter Morrin is Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. He is Director Emeritus of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, and worked previously at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA. Marcelle Polednik is Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Her recent curatorial projects include the Museum's retrospective, Abstraction over Time: The Paintings of Michael Goldberg (Fall 2013). Marcelle holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
'By common consent, Hans Hofmann was one of the great painters of the postwar period, at once a superb colorist and a magnificent constructor of pictures. Now at last, almost fifty years after his death, we have what promises to be a definitive catalogue raisonne of his paintings, along with a detailed chronology of his life, an exhibition history, and interpretive essays by leading scholars. An indispensable resource and, beyond that, an event.' Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University 'The Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings reveals the artist to have been a towering figure of twentieth-century art whose work was as diverse as it was complex. Drawing on sources from Cubism and Russian Constructivism to Fauvism, German Expressionism and Surrealism, Hofmann's synthesis and radical re-conception of modern painting influenced generations of American artists. The compendium of images alone in these volumes is breathtaking; together with the insightful essays and the discerning documentary materials they provide the first comprehensive view of his career. Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art 'Hans Hofmann is widely acknowledged as one of the giants of Abstract Expressionism: so it seems apt that he should be celebrated in this monumental three-volume set' Apollo Private collectors will avidly scan this impressive reference work for potential acquisitions. Art Newspaper, June 2015 Catalogues raisonnes endow artists with stature and give curators, dealers and collectors invaluable resources, but they necessarily make known less successful items in an artist's output. This catalogue allows readers to judge Hofmann as a whole. On balance, he comes out ahead. Art Newspaper, June 2015 This magnificently replete publication describes the provenance and exhibition history of every Hofmann painting, 1,700 in all. Burlington Magazine, June 2015
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