Ian Hornak, 1944-2002
Bibliography
The following selected bibliography documents more than four decades of published material relating to Ian Hornak (1944–2002). Included are exhibition reviews, feature articles, books, museum catalogues, newspaper coverage, and reference publications that trace Hornak’s career from the emergence of American realism in the early 1970s through the major retrospective exhibitions and scholarly reassessments that followed his death.
Publications devoted specifically to Ian Hornak are listed separately from broader publications in which his work is discussed prominently. Entries are arranged in reverse chronological order.
Publications and Reviews Devoted to Ian Hornak
Rebecca Massie Lane, “Three Exhibit Receptions, One Day,” The Herald-Mail, September 6, 2013.
Frank Defrank, “Acclaimed Artist’s Work Discovered at New Haven High School,” The Oakland Press, September 3, 2013.
Frank Defrank, “Acclaimed Artist’s Work Discovered at New Haven High School,” The Voice (Michigan), August 26, 2013.
Frank Defrank, “Acclaimed Artist’s Work Discovered at New Haven High School,” The Macomb Daily, August 16, 2013.
Jennifer Landes, “The Art Scene: 07.11.13,” The East Hampton Star, July 9, 2013.
“Around Town for May 30th,” The Journal (West Virginia), May 30, 2013.
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Acquisitions 2009–2011. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Fine Art Program, Washington, D.C., 2012.
Joan Adan, Transparent Barricades: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective. Forest Lawn Museum, May 2012 (circulated catalogue).
Jennifer Landes, “The Art Scene 04.26.12 – Ian Hornak Show in California,” The East Hampton Star, April 24, 2012.
“2011 In Memorium,” Art and Art History Newsletter, Wayne State University, Spring/Summer 2011.
Elise D’Haene, “The Art Scene: Ian Hornak in Chicago,” The East Hampton Star, April 29, 2010.
Chris Miller, “Review: The Big Picture Show/Galleries Maurice Sternberg,” Newcity Art, August 10, 2009.
Chris Miller, “Review: Ian Hornak/Galleries Maurice Sternberg,” Newcity Art, April 20, 2009.
Alan Artner, “Alan Artner’s Gallery Roundup,” Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2009.
Light From The Past: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective. Galleries Maurice Sternberg, March 2009 (circulated catalogue).
“The Art Scene: Ian Hornak Retrospective,” The East Hampton Star, October 14, 2008.
Stephanie Cash and David Ebony, “Ian Hornak,” Art in America, February 2003.
“Ian Hornak,” The Washington Post, January 1, 2003.
“Ian Hornak,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” Dallas Morning News, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” Amarillo Globe, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” The State Newspaper, December 31, 2002.
“Artist Ian Hornak,” Victoria Advocate, December 31, 2002.
“Ian Hornak,” Associated Press, December 30, 2002.
Ken Johnson, “Ian Hornak, 58, Whose Paintings Were Known for Hyper-Real Look,” The New York Times, December 30, 2002.
“Ian Hornak, 58; Painter Was Known for Photo-Realism Style,” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2002.
Morgan McGivern, “Ian Hornak, East Hampton Painter,” The East Hampton Star, December 19, 2002.
“Ian Hornak: A Perfusion of Color,” Florida Design Magazine, Volumes 1–2, June–August 2001.
Patsy Southgate, “Ian Hornak: Creating an Art Apart,” The East Hampton Star, November 11, 1997.
Reader’s Digest (back cover image and feature article), July 1994.
Gerrit Henry, review, Art in America, July 1994.
Leslie Ava Shaw, “The Sanity of Absolute Beauty,” Cover Magazine, February 1994.
Linda Southwood, “Love in a Pencil Line,” The Westside Resident, January 1994.
Publications and Reviews Devoted to Ian Hornak (Part II: 1993–1971)
Rose Slivka, review, East Hampton Star, December 2, 1993.
Phyllis Braff, review, The New York Times, December 13, 1992.
Ian Hornak, “Birds on Canvas,” Bird Talk Magazine, August 1990.
Robert Long, “Four Painters and a Sculptor at the Benton,” Southampton Press, August 11, 1988.
Steven Chrzanowski, “Ian Hornak: A Modernist Tied to the Past,” HAMPTONS Newspaper/Magazine, July 17, 1987.
Helen A. Harrison, review, The New York Times, June 11, 1982.
Marcia Corbino, review, Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 7, 1980.
Gerrit Henry, review, Art in America, February 1980.
Victoria Donohoo, review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 1979.
Jean Kemper Hoffmann, Palette to Palate: The Hamptons Artists Cookbook. A Guild Hall Museum Book; Times Books, 1978.
John Hochmann, “Wordsworth in the Tropics and Hornak’s Painting,” Arts Magazine, February 1978.
Anne Sargent Wooster, review, Art News, January 1978.
Julian Weissman, review, Art News, March 1976.
John Gruen, “Ian Hornak’s Personal Painting,” Arts Magazine, February 1976.
“Hornak Paintings Add Interest to Two Areas,” Ohio Citizens Trust Co. Tempo Magazine, April 1975.
David Bourdon, review, The Village Voice, January 20, 1975.
John Gruen, review, The Soho News, January 1975.
Joy Hakanson, “He’s One in 10,000,” Detroit News, June 2, 1974.
John Canaday, review, The New York Times, January 12, 1974.
John Scarborough, review, Houston Chronicle, May 27, 1974.
Judith Van Baron, review, Arts Magazine, March 1974.
“Ian Hornak,” ARTnews, March 1974.
Gregory Battock, review, Art and Artists, February 1973.
Jo Ann Lewis, “Seeing Is Believing,” Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1972.
Phyllis Braff, “From the Studio,” East Hampton Star, November 4, 1971.
“A Tree is a Tree, Hornak Works His Canvas in Romantic Realism,” The Herald-Time Off, October 24, 1971.
Joy Hakanson, review, The Detroit News, October 10, 1971.
Frank Getlein, review, The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), May 12, 1971.
Sarah Booth Conroy, “Realism Back In Art,” The Washington Post, May 17, 1971.
Publications Featuring Significant Discussion of Ian Hornak
Ashley R. Sims, “Students Inspire Change at New Haven High School,” The Voice (Michigan), August 29, 2013.
Ron Shipmon, “The Art of the Board,” Arrive Magazine, March/April 2013.
Audrey Michelle Mast, “Spotlight: Labor of Love,” Chicago Collection Magazine, Fall 2010.
Sara Herbert-Galloway, “Southampton’s Star Studded Benefit: Southampton Hospital Celebrates 100 Years of Healing,” The Insider, August 4, 2009.
Susan Saiter, “A Hospital Born from Two Surgeons in an Attic,” Dan’s Papers, July 10, 2009.
Paul Varnell, “Art in Bloom: Fall Art Exhibits Feature Wide Range of Genres,” Chicago Free Press, September 8, 2008.
Edward Albee, Constance Ayers, and Helen Harrison, Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach. Chronicle Books, April 1, 2002.
Kay Kipling, “The Hamptons,” Sarasota Magazine, February 1, 2001.
Phyllis Braff, “The Artistry of Getting Into Costume,” The New York Times, November 12, 2000.
John Ashbery and Karen Wilkin, Tibor de Nagy: The First Fifty Years, 1950–2000. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2000.
Gerrit Henry, “Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie,” November 1999.
Sheridan Sansegundo, “At the Galleries,” The East Hampton Star, November 4, 1999.
Phyllis Braff, “Moods of the Land and Its Other Inhabitants,” The New York Times, July 25, 1999.
Phyllis Braff, “What the Material Contributes to the Work,” The New York Times, April 18, 1999.
Phyllis Braff, “A 20th-Century Master, and Signs of the Season,” The New York Times, February 7, 1999.
Jerry Gargiulo, “Art Byte,” The Independent, September 4, 1996.
Grace Glueck, “City Sophistication Spends the Summer on Long Island,” The New York Times, July 12, 1996.
Helen A. Harrison, “Gardening Themes, Diverse Pleasures,” The New York Times, June 23, 1996.
Genie Chipps Henderson and Rameshwar Das, The Doll House. 1996.
Roger Caras, Cats of Thistle Hill: A Mostly Peaceable Kingdom. Fireside, July 1, 1995.
Paul Cummings, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists. Palgrave Macmillan, 6th edition, June 15, 1994.
“Drawing on Friendship, Portraits of Painters and Poets,” The New Yorker, January 31, 1994.
Hilton Kramer, “De Nagy, Secret Banker Charmed Bohemians,” New York Observer, January 17, 1994.
“Folk Art by Loustau,” The Press of Atlantic City, January 9, 1994.
“West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times.” West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1993.
“West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times.” West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1992.
“West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times.” West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1990.
“West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times.” West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1989.
Joan Altabe, “Modern Artist Draws Inspiration from Old Masters,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 22, 1988.
Dennis Longwell, “Masquerading as Works of Art,” The East Hampton Star, October 16, 1986.
Alvin Martin, American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Water Colors. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
David L. Shirey, “Glimpses of What’s Current,” The New York Times, June 20, 1982.
Frank H. Goodyear, Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. New York Graphic Society, 1981.
“To the Editor: ‘Happiest Times,’ ‘Spacious Attack,’ ‘Vendetta,’” The East Hampton Star, October 2, 1980.
“To the Editor: ‘Amateur Critic,’ ‘Thus Rests…,’ ‘A Perfect Eye,’” The East Hampton Star, September 25, 1980.
“To the Editor: ‘Artistic Meal,’” The East Hampton Star, September 18, 1980.
Peter Schjeldahl, “33 Artists Offer 33 Views of Realism,” The New York Times, April 13, 1980.
“New York Realists 1980.” Exhibition catalogue, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York, 1980.
David L. Shirey, “Guild Hall Displays Landscape’s Lure,” The New York Times, January 14, 1979.
John T. Elton, Romanticism in Painting. Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, New York, 1978.
Helen Harris, “The New Realists,” Town and Country, October 1978.
“Artists of Suffolk County.” Exhibition catalogue, Heckscher Museum, September 22, 1978.
Joy Hakanson Colby, “Painting in the Big Apple,” Sunday News Magazine, Detroit News, September 18, 1978.
David L. Shirey, “More Real Than Real,” The New York Times, August 6, 1978.
“Long Island This Week,” The New York Times, July 23, 1978.
“Aspects of Realism.” Exhibition catalogue, Guild Hall, East Hampton, July 22, 1978.
Vivien Raynor, “Representation Is Alive in SoHo,” The New York Times, December 30, 1977.
Ann Barry, “Arts and Leisure Guide,” The New York Times, October 30, 1977.
Ann Barry, “Arts and Leisure Guide,” The New York Times, October 23, 1977.
Mary Lou Kelley, “At Dartmouth College,” The Christian Science Monitor, August 18, 1977.
“Arts and Leisure Guide,” The New York Times, January 4, 1976.
Norman Lombino, “Interview,” The 57th Street Review, January 1976.
C. Greene, “Critique, Editor,” The East Hampton Star, September 1, 1975.
“Arts and Leisure Guide,” The New York Times, January 19, 1975.
“Arts and Leisure Guide,” The New York Times, January 12, 1975.
Gregory Battcock, Super Realism: A Critical Analogy. E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1975.
Jack Mitchell, “The Artist as a Subject,” Arts Magazine, January 1974.
“Opening Saturday,” The East Hampton Star, January 3, 1974.
“What’s New in Art; In the Galleries,” The New York Times, December 30, 1973.
“Art Shows,” The Washington Post, June 1, 1973.
Paul Richard, “Major Influence, Minor Artist,” The Washington Post, May 24, 1973.
“Georgica Pond at Sunset,” The East Hampton Star, May 24, 1973.
“Stage,” The Washington Post, May 18, 1973.
“Painting and Sculpture Today.” Exhibition catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Society and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1972.
Jack Mitchell, “Portrait of an Artist as a Contemporary,” After Dark Magazine, May 1971.
“Printmaking in Retrospect 1946–1984.” Exhibition catalogue, Wayne State University, November 20, 1964.
Exhibition Catalogues and Books
Stephen Bennett Phillips, Acquisitions 2009–2011. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Fine Art Program, Washington, D.C., 2012.
Joan Adan, Transparent Barricades: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective. Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California, May 2012 (circulated catalogue).
Light From The Past: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective. Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Chicago, Illinois, March 2009 (circulated catalogue).
Edward Albee, Constance Ayers, and Helen Harrison, Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach. Chronicle Books, April 1, 2002.
John Ashbery and Karen Wilkin, Tibor de Nagy: The First Fifty Years, 1950–2000. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2000.
Genie Chipps Henderson and Rameshwar Das, The Doll House. 1996.
Roger Caras, Cats of Thistle Hill: A Mostly Peaceable Kingdom. Fireside, July 1, 1995.
Paul Cummings, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists. Palgrave Macmillan, 6th edition, June 15, 1994.
West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times. West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1993.
West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times. West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1992.
West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times. West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1990.
West Art & the Law: Annual Exhibition: An Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists Interpreting the Law and Society in Our Times. West Publishing Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1989.
Alvin Martin, American Realism: 20th Century Drawings and Water Colors. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
Frank H. Goodyear, Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. New York Graphic Society, 1981.
New York Realists 1980. Exhibition catalogue, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, New York, 1980.
John T. Elton, Romanticism in Painting. Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, New York, 1978.
Artists of Suffolk County. Heckscher Museum, September 22, 1978.
Aspects of Realism. Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, July 22, 1978.
Gregory Battcock, Super Realism: A Critical Analogy. E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1975.
Painting and Sculpture Today. The Contemporary Arts Society and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1972.
Printmaking in Retrospect 1946–1984. Wayne State University, November 20, 1964.
Reference Directories
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Notes
Publications listed in the preceding sections include books, exhibition catalogues, newspaper and magazine articles, reviews, memorial essays, and reference works documenting the life and career of Ian Hornak (1944–2002).
Publications originally identified with an asterisk in the artist’s files represented articles and reviews devoted specifically to Ian Hornak. Entries without an asterisk indicate publications in which Hornak and his work are discussed prominently but are not the sole subject of the publication.
Entries are presented in reverse chronological order and retain the original information contained in the artist’s archives.
This bibliography remains an ongoing scholarly project and will continue to expand as additional publications and archival materials are identified.