By/About Sam Scott
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Encounters with Beauty by Sam Scott
In Encounters with Beauty, Sam Scott's writings, excerpted from his journals, come from an artist's contemplative perspective. His thoughts offer insights and wisdom that he has gleaned over the last thirty years in Santa Fe. As a pursuer of beauty, he offers the reader a unique opportunity to look inside the artist's struggle in the pursuit of beauty and art, and its importance in our personal lives. 2007
5.5 x 7.75 inches with 120 pages 23 color plates, 23 halftones Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-9679034-4-6 Fresco Fine Arts Publications, Albuquerque, NM |
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Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil paintings
by Jim Edwards and William Peterson
To view from where painter Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas and, as importantly, where the pigment is omitted, Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there.
2004
12 x 9.5 inches with 112 pages 90 full color images Softcover: ISBN 0-9741023-7-7 Fresco Fine Arts Publications, Albuquerque, NM COVER IMAGE: Sam Scott Great Rock of Inner Seeking, 1996 Oil on Canvas 66 x 80 inches |
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Sam Scott: An American Voice
by Jim Edwards and William Peterson
To view from where painter Sam Scott stands is to see the spiritual in all things. In every touch of his brush on the canvas and, as importantly, where the pigment is omitted, Scott has serious intent. Each day as an artist is felt and considered; every new work containing the attention to each moment lived there.
1997
48-page exhibition catalog Photographs, 10 color plates Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
Featuring Sam Scott
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Ces Merveilleux Carnets de Voyages
Sam Scott: Carnets d’Amazonie by Farid Abdelouahab
This magnificently illustrated book traces the history of travel dairies from the earliest, sometimes crude, collections of drawings and notes to volumes that are today considered works of art in and of themselves. From scientists on expeditions to soldiers on colonial missions, from explorers on the high seas to artists in the jungle readers will find fascinating journals of astonishing beauty, some of them never before revealed to the public. This volume takes you on a voyage colored with the wonders and the discoveries of the last five hundred years, exploring an artistic territory in a constant state of flux.
2004
Produced by Archipel Studio, Paris 12.8 x 9.8 inches with 232 pages Hardcover: ISBN 3938265191 French edition published by Readers Digest English, Dutch, Flemish, German and Spanish translations |
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Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: An Sense of Place
by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes,
and Fredrick W. Turner Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work through essays by three noted authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her.
2004
Sam Scott, pp. 113-19 10.8 x 9.3 inches with 144 pages Hardcover: ISBN 100-691-11659-8 Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford |
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Abstract Art : The New Mexico Artist Series
Stuart Ashman, Curator
Suzanne Deats, Artist Profiles
Abstract Art presents a thoughtful sampling of the range and sheer variety of abstract art being produced in New Mexico today. Over 200 full color images reflect the vigor and originality of artists whose work compares favorably with that being produced in major metropolitan art centers. Stuart Ashman's essay covers the development of modern art in the state.
2003
Sam Scott, pp. 74-80, color plates 12 x 9.5 inches with 256 pages Softcover: ISBN 0-9741023-1-8 Fresco Fine Arts Publications, Albuquerque, NM |
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Adventures with Ed : A Portrait of Abbey
by Jack Loeffler
No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of twenty-one books of fiction and nonfiction. This long-awaited biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year friendship Ed Abbey and Jack Loeffler shared hundreds of campfires, hiked thousands of miles, and talked endlessly about the meaning of life. To read Loeffler's account of his best pal's life and work is to join in their friendship.
2001
Sam Scott, pp. 128, 218 8.5 x 7.3 inches with 308 pages Hardcover: ISBN 0-8263-2387-1 University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM |
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How, Then, Shall We Live?
by Wayne Muller
One of the hazards of a reflective life is to grope for answers before you've asked the right questions. Wayne Muller, a minister, therapist and bestselling author has taken a stab at asking the big questions: Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? What is my gift to the family of the Earth? Following each of these questions are some of the most tender and luminous discussions one could hope to ponder. More than a monastery for the armchair seeker, this has potential to be a mind-altering book with permanent impact.
1995
Sam Scott, p. 91 9.3 x 5.3 inches with 304 pages Softcover: ISBN 0553375059 Bantam Books |
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Santa Fe Art
by Simone Ellis
This is a coffee table sized book that celebrates the amazing art which has come from Santa Fe, New Mexico over the last century. Contains 93 full color and 12 black-and-white illustrations. Informative text provides an insight into the styles evolving from this Southwestern mecca for artists. Includes The Taos Society of Artists, Los Cinco Pintores, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Fritz Scholder. Surveys the work of over 70 artists.
1993 (2nd Ed. 2003)
Sam Scott, p. 64; color plate, p. 84 8.9 x 7.3 incheswith 112 pages Hardcover: ISBN 1854224670 (1st Ed.) Hardcover: ISBN 1572153709 (2nd Ed.) Crescent Books/Random House |
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Artists of 20th-Century New Mexico
Museum of Fine Arts Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1992
Sam Scott, p. 120, color illustration 11.5 x 9.8 inches with 167 pages Softcover: ISBN 0890132305 Museum of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM |