James Surls is one of America's foremost living sculptors and one 
of the most fascinating creative forces on the international art 
scene in the last several decades. His works have been shown in 
both national and international solo and group exhibitions and are 
included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of 
Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; 
the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; 
the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and the Dallas Museum of Art.

    This volume is the first full-length examination of the art and life of 
James Surls. In a seminal essay, art historian Mark Thistlethwaite 
discusses Surls's personal history, beginning in East Texas and 
continuing in the Colorado meadows. He describes Surls's visual 
language of eyes, knives, diamonds, and flowers and the influences 
that have shaped him as an artist. In addition, the volume contains 
an interview with the artist, a tribute by his wife Charmaine, and 
commentary by Mark A. Roglán, curator of the exhibition In the 
Meadows: Recent Sculpture, Drawings, and Prints of James Surls
(January 24–April 20, 2003).

    Sixty-two black and white and ninety-eight color illustrations, 
including images of early works, are featured in this catalogue, 
which showcases more than sixty pieces forming the core of the 
Meadows Museum exhibition.

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Co-published with the Meadows Museum