Michael Tropea Bio


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Client	Publication Title
Abrams Publishing	The Vietnam Veterans Museum Art Museum, Inaugural Book
Akron Art Museum	Edwin Shaw Collection
Arts Club of Chicago	The Collection (1997) Seventy Fifth Anniversary Catalogue (1992)
Art Interprises	The Burton Kanter Collection
Art Institute of Chicago	A Collecting Odyssey, The Alsodorf Collection Contemporary American Realist Drawings, The Davidson Collection Sprit Stones of China, The Wilson Collection
Boeing Corporation	The World Headquarters Collection, Chicago
Christie's Inc	Numerous auction catalogues of paintings and sculpture 1980's to present
Des Moines Art Center	An Uncommon Vision, The Fiftieth Anniversary Book
Richard Gray Gallery	Numerous gallery catalogues including Milton Avery paintings, Anthony Caro sculpture, and Tatsuo Miyajima LED sculptures. late 1970's to present.
Honolulu Art Academy	The Alsdorf Collection of Japanese Paintings Japanese Lacquer Boxes, Edwin Lewis Collection Masterworks of Chinese Art, Ching-Pastor Collection
Milwaukee Art Museum	German Expressionist Prints, The Specks Collection
Molex Corporation	The Krehbiel Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art	Art at the Armory
National Gallery of Art	Morton Neumann Collection: Vol. I Selected Works Vol. II Picasso Prints and Drawings
Ota Museum of Art (Japan)	H. George Mann Collection of Japanese Prints
Schiller Collection	In the Eye of the Storm, Social Conscience Realism
Racine Art Museum	The Building, The Collection (2003) Tea Anyone, The Moog Teapot Collection (2004) Contemproary Israeli Jewelry Makers (2005)
Refco Corporation	The Collection (1990) Subjective Realities (2003)
Sotheby's Inc.	Numerous auction catalogues, ranging from automobiles and motorcylcles to jewelry and furniture. 1980's to present
Terra Museum	A Proud Heritage, Two Centuries of American Art, Inaugural Book
Union League Club	Three separate volumes on the collection. Vol. I (1980) Vol. II (1987) Vol. III (2003)
I have several projects that are in the process of being photographed, produced, and/or scheduled including: A book on the artist Roni Horn's water project, that will feature 60-80 installation views of the Art Institute of Chicago, publication scheduled for 2006 by the AIC. A book on the Cook-Forster collection (200+ items) which was photographed in July 2005 on location in Goettingen, Germany. The Richard Fabian Collection of Chinese Art (400+ items) to be photographed on location in San Francisco in early 2006. Buddhist Treasures from the Kingdom of Bhutan, to be photographed on location in late 2005 - early 2006. In addition to the major publications above I have photographed dozens of smaller catalogues for galleries and Museums.