This beautifully illustrated monograph displays Pace's radiant color and agile capacity to distill the essence of a subject in succinct and telling strokes.Ninety-three color plates and forty-five black and white reproductions of drawings，prints，and photographs are included.

The life and artistic career of Stephen Pace has been both rich and varied—from his boyhood on farms in Indiana and Missouri，through the Normandy landings in WW II and study on the G.I.Bill in Mexico，France and NewYork，to the forceful abstract expressionist canvases he painted as a highly visible member of the NewYork school，and finally to the luminous representational paintings of recent decades.

Throughout this comprehensive treatment of an artist to whom Pablo Picasso，Gertrude Stein，Willem de Kooning and Milton Avery were friends，and whose colleagues included Mark Rothko，Adolph Gottlieb,Barnett Newman，and a host of other mid-century NewYork painters，powerful illustration of Pace's large and prepossessing works is matched with biography and critical insight by art historian Martica Sawin.Her text offers a celebration of a thoroughly American artist who produces the kind of sophisticated painting that can come only from lifelong practice，and from one who experiences the sensuous delight of ordinary moments.

This beautifully illustrated monograph displays Pace's radiant color and agile capacity to distill the essence of a subject in succinct and telling strokes.Ninety-three color plates and forty-five black and white reproductions of drawings，prints，and photographs are included.

Stephen Pace，born in Charleston，Missouri in 1918，continues to work from his studios in Maine and New York.Martica Sawin has written and lectured on contemporary art since the 1950s.She chaired the art history department at Parsons School ofDesign from 1967-1985，founded Parsons in Paris.and is the author of Wolf Kahn，Landscape Painter(1981)，Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of New York School(1995)，and most recently，Nell Blaine：Her art and Life(1998).

PREFACE

STEPHEN PACE：FROM ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM TO MINIMALIST FIGURATION

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

EXHIBITIONS

COLLECTIONS

INDEX

PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS