Selected Publications
The following books and other publications—organized according to my role in their creation—are a representative selection of the last twenty years' work.
Acquiring and developmental editor
Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 1/e, Rev. 1/e and 2/e (1992–2003)
Art History was Prentice-Hall's most successful new textbook.
Marilyn Stokstad, Art: A Brief History, 1/e and 2/e (1994–2003).
Robert L. Thorp and Richard Vinograd, Chinese Art and Culture (Abrams/Prentice-Hall, 2000).
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (Abrams, 2001).
Timothy Rieman and Jean F. Burke, Complete Book of Shaker Furniture (Abrams, 1993).
Robert A. F. Thurman and Marylin Rhie, Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet (Abrams, 1991)
More than 100,000 copies have sold worldwide.
Developmental editor and project manager
Gerald Nordland, Mark Lavatelli, and Charles Strong, Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2007).
Vicky Perry, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques (Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005).
Penelope Mason, History of Japanese Art, 1/e (Abrams/Prentice-Hall, 1993).
S. C. Reznikoff, Specifications for Commercial Interiors: Professional Liabilities, Regulations, and Performance Criteria (Whitney Library of Design, 1984).
Developmental editor
Kurt Godwin, "Where It All Begins" (toutfait.com, 2011).
Scholarly article in the online journal of Marcel Duchamp studies
Helen Park Bigelow, David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back (Hudson Hills Press, 2009).
Laurie Schneider Adams, Art across Time, 2/e (McGraw-Hill, 2005).
Substantive editor
Gijsbert Van Laar, Magazjin van Tuin-sierade, or Storehouse of Garden Ornaments . . . a full English translation of the text and captions by Vanessa Sellers (Foundation for Landscape Studies, 2011).
Ruth Barnes and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, eds., Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles (Prestel, 2010).
Warren Adelson, Richard Ormond, et al., Sargent's Venice (Yale University Press, 2006).
Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise's American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation," The American Art Journal, XXXIV and XXXV, 2003–04, 62–143.
H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, History of Art, 4/e, 5/e, 5/e Rev., 6/e, and 6/e Rev. (Abrams/Prentice-Hall, 1989–2003).
Author
Study Guide to Henry M. Sayre, Humanities 2/e (Pearson, 2011).
Introduction to New York's Left Bank: Art and Artists off Washington Square North, 1900–1950. exhibition catalog (Virginia Budny, 2006).
ArtBasics. Wadsworth Publishing/Thomson Learning, 2004.
Backmatter (glossary, bibliography and Internet resources, timeline), Hunter, Jacobus, and Wheeler, Modern Art, 4/e (The Vendome Press/Prentice-Hall, 2004).
"Primer of Art History," in H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, History of Art, Rev. 6/e (Abrams/Prentice-Hall, 2003).
[as Julia M. Ehresmann] Pocket Dictionary of Art Terms, 3/e and 4/e (New York Graphic Society, 1970 and 1979).