Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer MOMA Exhibition June 4 - Sept. 6, 1998, Birminghm Oct. 17, 1998 - Jan. 17, 1999, Musé d'Orsay, Mar. 1 - June 6, 1999.

New York: Abrams Press and Museum of Modern Art. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Original Pictorial Wrappers. xii, 361 pages; Near Fine - unread in bright glossy pictorial wrappers. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Contents: John Christian: A critical somersault; Alan Crawford: Burne-Jones as a decorative artist; Laurence de Cars: Burne-Jones and France; Stephen Wildman and John Christian: Catalogue -- Birmingham and Oxford; Pre-Raphaelite Apprenticeship; Ruskin and Italy; A New Voice; The "Seven Blissfullest Years"; Fame at Home and Abroad; The Artist Craftsman; "Pictured Abstractions". Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer is the catalogue for the first exhibition in the United States devoted to this painter. The works in the exhibition, organized under the auspices of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, England, and the Réunion des musées nationaux, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, were selected by Stephen Wildman, Curator of the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, England.A prodigiously productive artist, Burne-Jones, in addition to being a successful and innovative painter, was also an important force in the Arts and Crafts movement, working closely with his lifelong friend William Morris in the production of such decorative arts as ceramic tiles, stained glass, large-scale tapestries, and illustrated books to be printed at Morris's renowned Kelmscott Press. Examples of works in all these media are presented in the exhibition, with full-color and black-and-white reproductions of each of the 173 works included in the catalogue. Arranged chronologically, the volume is divided into eight sections, each introduced by a vibrant and broadly informative text by John Christian, followed by catalogue entries written by Mr. Wildman and Mr. Christian. An essay by the British scholar Alan Crawford explores Burne-Jones's contribution as a decorative artist, and an essay by Laurence des Cars, Curator at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, deals with the artist's reputation and influence in France and Belgium. .