selected bibliography

“At his best he is. . . . a remarkable artist who has somehow preserved the integrity of his sensibility—essentially private, jealous of its own dreams and sensitivities—through a period when the most persuasive artistic currents were all running the other way.”

Hilton Kramer
  • Campbell, Lawrence, “Objects on Parade,” Art in America, January 1996.
  • Stein, Robert. New York 1960, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial, Monacelli Press, 1995.
  • Bellamy, Peter, The Artist Project: Portraits of the Real Art World/ New York Artists 1981—1990, IN Publishing, New York, 1991.
  • Campbell, Lawrence, “Herman Rose at Fischbach,” Art in America, May 1990.
  • Pisano, Ronald, Long Island Landscape Painting Volume II: The Twentieth Century, Little, Brown & Co., 1990.
  • Martin, Alvin, American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986.
  • Henry, Gerrit, “Herman Rose at Fischbach” Art in America, January, 1984.
  • Glueck, Grace, “Herman Rose,” New York Times, November 7, 1983.
  • Atlas, James, “New York for Real,” ARTnews, September 1983.
  • Chwast, Seymour and Steven Heller, eds., The Art of New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Wolff, Theodore, “Giant Steps Forward by National Academy,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 29, 1983.
  • Rosenblum, Robert, A Curator's Choice 1942-1963, A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1982.
  • Pomeroy, Ralph, “The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses,” ARTS, January, 1982.
  • Kramer, Hilton, “Artists’ Show Revitalizes Fifth Avenue Academy,” New York Times, March 5, 1982.
  • Berman and Wechsler, Realism and Realities—The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960, Rutgers Publishers, 1982.
  • Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, December 4, 1981.
  • Wolff, Theodore F., “Giant steps forward by the National Academy,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 1983.
  • Wolff, Theodore F., “The Many Masks Of Modern Art,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 3, 1981.
  • Alloway, Lawrence, “Art” The Nation, January 17, 1976.
  • Finkelstein, Louis, Painterly Representation, 1975.
  • Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974.
  • Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, April 13, 1974.
  • Campbell, Lawrence, ARTnews, May 1972.
  • Mellow, James R., “Rose’s Work Makes a Refreshing Show,” New York Times, May 6, 1972.
  • Kramer, Hilton, New York Times, November 1969.
  • Campbell, Lawrence, “The City Rises,” ARTnews, November 1969.
  • Burton, Scott, “Telling and Showing,” ARTnews, Summer 1967.
  • Kramer, Hilton, “Herman Rose's New York,” New York Times, May 21, 1967.
  • Campbell, Lawrence, “Five Star Show this Winter,” ARTnews, February 1962.
  • Genauer, Emily, “Gallery Roundup,” Herald Tribune, February 1962.
  • Newsweek, February 19, 1962, interview.
  • Porter, Fairfield, “Art in Its Own Terms,” Essays; Zoland Books, Cambridge, Mass. 1960.
  • Porter, Fairfield, “Is Today's Artist With or Against the Past?,” ARTnews Summer, 1958.
  • "Ten Best One Man Shows of The Year,” ARTnews, 1956, 57, 63.
  • Porter, Fairfield, The Nation, 1956.
  • Porter, Fairfield, “Herman Rose Paints a Picture,” ARTnews, May 1955.
  • Chanin, A.L., The World Of Art: Art Styles Clash and Clang in Show of ‘Fifteen Americans, The Compass, April 13, 1952.
  • Hess, Thomas B., “Where U.S. Extremes Meet,” ARTnews, April 1952.
  • Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, 1949.
Herman Rose painting outdoors

Herman Rose sketching on rooftopc. 1960s