Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (First Edition) Text by David Clemmer Photographs by John Guernsey Full Color • 120 pages 11” w  x 9” h Hardcover • $100.00 • ISBN  0-9719150-1-6 Softcover • $35.00 • ISBN  0-9719150-2-4 Limited Edition • $250.00 • ISBN  0-9719150-3-2

Written by art historian David Clemmer, this book is a survey of early twentieth-century artists who painted the Southwest desert. The book accompanied a museum exhibition of the paintings at the Tucson Museum of Art in May 2004, and a museum exhibition at West Valley Art Museum in March 2004. The recently published Second Edition contains several more artists and an additional 30 images. The works represented in the book are by such world-renown artists as:

Oscar Berninghaus, Frank Tenney Johnson, E. Martin Hennings, W.H.D. Koerner, William Penhallow Henderson, Augustus Dunbier, F. Lee Hersch, E.L. Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, Ila McAfee, Victor Higgins, Homer Boss, William R. Leigh, Gerald Cassidy, E.I. Couse, Warren Rollins, Joseph Sharp, J.R. Willis, Carl Von Hassler, Merrell Gage, Will Schuster, Edgar Payne, Ben Turner, Carl Redin, Gene Kloss, Ralph Pearson, Gerald Curtis Delano, Nellie Knopf, Clyde Forsythe, Maynard Dixon, Willard Clark, Norma Basset Hall, Con Von Seward, Ralph Myers, Arthur Haddock, Sheldon Parsons, Freemont Ellis, and Joseph Fleck.