Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans' is the most extensive survey of the figures, landscapes and still lifes of Latvian-American painter Raimonds Staprans (born 1926). Published by the Crocker Art Museum, the book accompanies the museum's exhibition of the same name. Its superb reproductions reveal Staprans as a master of composition, color and existential nuance. Essayists include Scott A. Shields, Crocker Art Museum Associate Director and Chief Curator; Paul J. Karlstrom, art historian and former West Coast regional director of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art; David Pagel, art critic for the Los Angeles Times and Professor of Art Theory and History at Claremont Graduate University; author Nancy Princenthal; Ed Schad, Associate Curator at The Broad; and John Yau, art critic and poet. Exhibition: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, USA (25.06.
-08.10.2017) / San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA (02.02.-20.05.2018).