Excerpts

 

Chapter 1: Stieglitz, Guggenheim, You and Me Now, Let Us Begin

Chapter 3: Employment, Where to Live, Television and the Mass Media, The Simple Art of Reading, Graduate School? Heritage

Chapter 4: How Will You Know When You're Ready to Show Publicly? Photography, Resumes, Artist's Biographies, Artist's Statements, Portfolios and Presentation Folders, Pricing Your Work, Where to Show, Press, Postcards

Chapter 6: One Gallery's Story, How it Started, Some of My Artists, New York: What it Means to Us, and You, Trying to Survive, My Own Work, Evolution Comes Knocking, Turning Things Around, The Aftermath, Going On

Chapter 7: Getting Into the Galleries, Rejection/Perseverance, Choosing the Right Gallery, Coming to an Agreement/Gallery Percentages, You're in A Gallery. Now What? Passion, Exclusivity, Getting Paid, Your First One-Woman / One-Man Show, The Critics, Press--Again, Galleries in Other Cities, Your Relationship with Your Dealers

Chapter 8: Clients, Rich and Otherwise, Large Commissions: How do you Get Them? Commissioned Paintings Through Galleries, Commissioned Sculpture, Copyright, Working with Interior Designers and Architects, Contractors and Developers, Websites, E-Mailing Images, Utilizing Reproductions--Both in Magazines and as Prints, Grants, Compromise, and One Example of It, Self-Doubt, Expanding Career, Museums: Gaining Their Acceptance, Snobbery: Another Word for "Wasted Intelligence", Expanding Life

Conclusion: Success, Failure

A Guide to Growing, Persevering, and Succeeding in the Art World