An expansive collection catalogue that offers a multiplicity of fresh perspectives on recent modern and contemporary art acquisitions in The Phillips Collection

Dorothy Kosinski is Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection.
Elsa Smithgall is senior curator at The Phillips Collection.

Chairman's Preface; Director's Foreword; Introduction by Dorothy Kosinski; Prelude: Reflections on Renoir and Luncheon of the Boating Party by Bridget Riley; "It is the Color Of Course" by Klaus Ottmann; Not the Eye but the Beholder: The Shared Vision of Duncan Phillips and John Dewey by Mary Jane Jacob; Artist Conversation with David C. Driskell and Elsa Smithgall; Unraveling the Absolute: Painting Music at The Phillips Collection by Jeremy Ney; Learning to Look & See by Fred L. Joiner; Excelsior and the Contemporary by Kent Mitchell Minturn; In the Round: From Drawing to Sculpture by Jed Morse; San Francisco Modern: Manuel Neri and Frank Lobdell by Bruce Nixon; Physiognomy and a Fisherman: August Sander and Forrest Bess. Some Relations with Nature by Lauren Kroiz; Lifting into the Foreground: A Meditation on Joseph Holston's Charity by Jeffreen M. Hayes; Bruce Davidson's Black Female Sitters by Charmaine A. Nelson; Artist conversation with Whitfield Lovell and Elsa Smithgall; Rethinking Photography at The Phillips Collection: Looking Back / Looking Forward by Wendy A. Grossman; Artist conversation with John Edmonds and Elsa Smithgall; Connecting Modern with Contemporary: Intersections at the Phillips by Vesela Sretenovic; Artist Conversation with Alyson Shotz and Vesela Sretenovic; Plates with Selected Object Entries:
heather ahtone: Benny Andrews, Trail of Tears
Taylor Aldridge: Simone Leigh's No Face (Crown Heights)
Dominique Baqué: Kiefer Dien blondes Haar, Margarethe
Tina Baum: Larrakitj Poles
Enrique Martinez Celaya: Forrest Bess, Black Seascape with Moon
Makeba Clay- McArthur Binion, DNA: Black Painting and Gee's Bend Quilts
Kate Cowcher: Aimé Mpane, Mapasa
Jessica Stafford Davis: Zoe Charlton's The Country a Wilderness Unsubdued)
Sue Frank: Bice Lazzari, Measures and Signs; Folinsbee, Gray Thaw; Al Held, B/W XII and Pan North V
Antony Gormley: Walker Evans, James Agee
Wendy Grossman, Man Ray, Julius Caesar
Liesbeth Heenk: Howard Hodgkin's As Time Goes By
Franz W. Kaiser: Karel Appel, Head as a Tree
Raina Lampkins-Fielder: Lucy T. Pettway, Two-sided quilt: blocks and strips and Bricklayer
Jacqueline Lawton: Michna-Bales, Underground Railroad
Renee Maurer: Esther Bubley, A Child Whose Home Is an Alley Dwelling near the Capitol (1943) and Untitled (Two Boys on a Bench) (1951); Katz, Brisk Day; Louis, Seal; Gilliam, Purple Antelope; Avery, Self-Portrait with Red Tam, Frankenthaler, Canyon;
Jennifer Wen Ma: Jennifer Wen Ma, Brain Storm
Alexander Nemerov: William Christenberry, Church across Cotton, Pickinsville, AL
Nontobeko Ntombela: O'jeikere Hair Styles
Klaus Ottmann: Celaya, The First Kirkegaard; Laib, Wax Room; Lüpertz, Kassandra; Walther, Red Song Formation;
Eliza Rathbone: Degas, La Répétition au foyer de la danse
Ellington Robinson: Whitfield Lovell Kin XXXV
Bernardi Roig: Kiefer, Jacob's Heavenly Blood Blessed by Axes
Susan Rothenberg: Three Masks (2006) and Dominos Cold (2001)
Sean Scully: Renee Stout, Escape Plan A and Life Lessons (after
Nathaniel Lyons)
Elsa Smithgall: Hale Woodruff, Atlanta Portfolio; Kara Walker, Crest of Pine Mountain where General Polk Fell; Jacob Lawrence, Going Home; David Driskell, Doorway portfolio.
Bosco Sodi: Mark Rothko, Aubade
Vesela Sretenovic: Ellsworth Kelly, Untitled and lithographs; Bosco Sodi, Muro; Zilia Sanchez, Maquinista
Renée Stout: Sean Scully, Day
Lou Stovall: Stovall, Suite for Sergei
Elizabeth Hutton Turner: Calder, Hollow Egg
Jenna Wortham: McArthur Binion, DNA: Black Painting: I
Appendix: The Phillips Collection Acquisitions, 2000-2020; The Phillips Collection Exhibition History, 2000-2021; The Phillips Collection Publication History, 2000-2021; Index; Contributors; Credits