publications
Joseph Solman, Crown Publishers, New York, 1966
Introduction by A. L. Chanin, Docent, Museum of Modern Art. Contains 16 full color plates and 132 black & white reproductions.
The Picasso Coloring Book, Crown Publishers, New York, 1966
Paintings rendered in line by Solman. Edited by Joseph K. Foster. Front cover folds out to three panels which show the first twelve illustrations in colour. Colour directions for first twelve of twenty-four line drawings.
The Monotypes of Joseph Solman, Da Capo Press, New York. 1977
ISBN 10: 0306774259 / ISBN 13: 978-0306774256
Introduction by Una E. Johnson. With Technical Notes by the Artist on the Making of the Prints. Illustrated throughout with colour plates.
Mozartiana, Two Centuries of Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Random House, New York, 1990
ISBN-10: 0802776256 / ISBN-13: 978-0802776259
Solman has gathered opinions, remembrances, letters, and more-from Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Sendak, and some 200 others-and blended them with his own sketches and drawings of the great composer. A calendar for 1991 was also produced.
Joseph Solman, Da Capo Press, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0306806398 / ISBN-13: 978-0306806391
Edited by Theodore Wolff. Contributions by ten writers including Sidney Janis and Dore Ashton among others. Illustrated in colour with 198 colour plates and black & white drawings, photographs. Chronology. Bibliography. 208 pages.
Other Publications with references (partial List)
“Solman’s New York”, American Arts Monthly, Spring 1935
Bonestell Gallery, Sidney Janis, preface to catalogue of 1942 exhibition of interiors, still life, and portraits at Bonestell Gallery, New York
“Solman Paints a Picture”, Dorothy Seckler, Art News, Summer 1951
“The Growth of Conviction”, Suzanne Burrey, Arts Magazine, October 1955
“Problems of Portraiture”, Dorothy Seckler, Art In America, Winter 1958-59
“Pop, Pop, Whence Pop”, page 8 of exhibition catalogue, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, 1965The Tune of the Calliope by Aaron Kramer, Thomas Yoseloff, 1958 (ISBN-10: 1299617441 / ISBN-13: 978-1299617445)
“Society’s Child”, Janis Ian, Vinyl LP and songbook, 1967 (Solman portrait of Janis Ian on cover - https://store.janisianstore.com/collections/digital-sheet-music-songbooks/products/janis-ian-songbook)
New Deal Art Projects: An Anthology of Memoirs by Francis V. O’Connor, Smithsonian Books, 1972 (ISBN-10: 0874741130 / ISBN-13: 978-0874741131)
20 Oil Painters And How They Work by Susan E. Meyer, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1978 (ISBN-10: 0823054918 / ISBN-13: 978-0823054916)
“Kunstlerplakate aud den USA”, exhibition at the Staatliche Kunst Sammlungen, Dresden, 1980
“The Many Masks of Modern Art”, Theodore F. Wolff, full page article on the retrospective exhibition “Joseph Solman: Work of the Thirties”. Christian Science Monitor, Boston, May 5, 1983
“The Expressionist Vision: A Central Theme in New York in the Forties”, Dr. Piri Halasz, catalogue and exhibition at the C.W.Post Center, Long Island University, New York State Council, 1983-84
“Joseph Solman”, Gail Stavitsky, full page review of the exhibition of portraits at the ACA Gallery. Art News. April 1986
The Newspaper in Art by Apgar, Higgins, Striegel, New Media Ventures, 1997 (ISBN-10: 0923910050 / ISBN-13: 978-0923910051)
Twentieth-Century Still-Life Paintings from the Phillips Collection, Stephen Bennett Phillips, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1997 (ISBN-10: 0943044227)
Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956 by Andrew Hemmingway, Yale University Press, 2002 (ISBN-10: 0300092202 / ISBN-13: 978-0300092202)
Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century, Brandeis University Press, 2002 (ISBN-10: 1584650494 / ISBN-13: 978-1584650492)
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950, Harry N. Abrams, 2003 (ISBN-10: 9780810942318 / ISBN-13: 978-0810942318 / ASIN: 0810942313)
GALLERIES
Mercury Gallery - Rockport, MA, USA (Primary Dealer). Amnon Goldman, Director - www.mercurygallery.com
The Joseph Solman Virtual Gallery - (online gallery created by Solman’s Son (Paul) and Grandson (Joe) - mainly works on paper) - www.josephsolman.com
LINKS
“The Colour of Light - Joseph Solman”, a short film by 1623 Studios, Cape Ann, Gloucester, MA, June 2022: https://youtu.be/BTLCOwDR6No
“Profile: Joseph Solman: New York's veteran painter”, Abby Luby, Whitehot Magazine, Summer 2007: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/new-york-s-veteran-painter/680
“Joseph Solman - Still Life at 98” by Abby Luby, AMNY: https://www.amny.com/news/joseph-solman-still-life-at-98/
“Revisiting Joseph Solman” by Robert Bushway: https://www.robertbrucebushway.com/updatesnews/2013/9/19/revisiting-joseph-solman
Obituary - The Guardian, UK: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/may/05/1
Obituary - The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18solman.html
Obituary - The Independent, UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joseph-solman-artist-friend-of-rothko-and-pollock-815882.html
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Solman
“Art For the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection” - https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/story/2023-06-18/power-of-the-people-exhibit-showcases-north-county-collectors-depression-era-paintings
Award-winning documentary films including “Artists at Work - A Film on the New Deal Art Projects” featuring Solman - https://www.newdealfilms.com/