We are pleased to announce the upcoming release dates for
Marley Kaul - Paintings and the opening of a retrospective exhibit
at the Talley Gallery in Bemidji of works from throughout
Marley's sixty year career
Hardcover
266 Pages with over 300 images
Pre-order is available online at:
Itascabooks.com
and other fine booksellers
SHIPPING OCTOBER 1, 2025
Join us in person at a September Book Event to get an early copy.
Marley Kaul - Paintings
"This retrospective volume gives extraordinary insight
into an extraordinary mind. As you turn the pages, you’ll see
Marley’s vision changing, growing, never still, always reaching.
It’s a compelling, uplifting experience wherein we feel
the presence of something masterful.”
—Will Weaver, Author of Sweet Land, Power & Light
and other novels.
“It brought me great joy to receive the book of 60 years
of Marley Kaul’s paintings. I remember seeing some of these
paintings as a student of Marley's and I loved them then, and
I still love them now. I find the combination of abstraction
and figuration, chaos and order, stillness and movement a
profound experience as a viewer. Marley was a great teacher
who strove to enhance his student’s intuitive inclinations
and allow them to grow. I will never forget his kindness
to me and I am eternally grateful. I am very grateful
for this book, and I hope everyone gets a copy, and
that it brings you the same joy it brought to me.”
—Doug Argue, New York City based Painter
“This is an almost perfect book. The photos of
Marley Kaul's gorgeous paintings are mesmerizing.
The commentaries are informational and beautifully
written. Marley's own words bring it all to life.
Even though I knew him for many years, this book was
a revelation and a pleasurable one. It's a treasure.”
— Louise Mengelkoch, Author
“What a remarkable book, a moving and beautiful
testament to the sheer volume and vibrancy of Marley’s work.
Startling in its clarity and originality, it is a most welcome
addition to the lasting legacy of one of Minnesota’s true
artistic treasures”
—Robert Hedin, Author, co-founder of the Anderson Center
“From the cover to the final chapter, “Marley Kaul: Paintings”
provides a rich visual experience that thoughtfully guides us through
a chronological journey, pairing Marley’s artwork with his insightful
writings. As we become witnesses to the evolution of an artist
with each chapter, this seamless progression draws us in,
making each chapter feel like a new discovery
—Lori Forshee-Donnay, Executive Director, Watermark Art Center
“This book is a robust and beautiful accounting of Marley
Kaul’s journey through his life in art. It explores stages and
changes in his work, with lush images accompanied by insightful
quotes and notes to bridge our understanding. Though he often
works within strong compositional structures that impose clear
order in his paintings, his works invariably convey a liveliness
and animation that is baked into his brushstrokes, shapes, colors,
and compositions. I was fortunate to be not only a student of
Marley’s, but also to count him as a friend. He had a
lasting impression in both regards, his clarity and
friendship as lively as his paintings."
— Thomas Paquette, Painter and Master Landscapist
“The handsome and definitive new book from Mill Studio Press,
Marley Kaul Paintings, is an elegant pictorial tableau full of the
breath, the breathing, the thought, the embracing, the gestural
reach, the compositional math and resolutions, the sounds of
colors, the rounds of vibrato and texture, the spirituality, the
poetry, the teaching and the resolve of a great, good man and
important, genuinely honest American artist, Marley Kaul."
—Lynn R Miller, Painter, Farmer, Author
and the founder and publisher of the Small Farmer’s Journal
“I think this book beautifully captures his love of color, the world
around us
and some of the important individual questions we all
experience in our lives. Family, love, nature, our place in life,
.....seeing. What is it that we see? He taught me a great deal about
how to learn how to see instead of just looking.”
—David Bartley, Painter and Senior Registration Technician
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
"The design of the book is stunning, the choice of Kaul’s
accomplished writings are well selected and placed, and, of "
course, here is the artist himself. Through Marley Kaul’s
stewardship of his rural land and knowledge of plants and
animals he has offered metaphors about the principled practice
of art and life and the changing aspects of growing and seeing.
His paintings sing all the way through the book and it is
hard to choose favorite works. Your choices will
change from day to day.”
Craig Langager - Artist and Colleague
Sarah Clark-Langager - Former Director of
Western Washington University
Art Gallery and Outdoor Sculpture Collection
also available from Itasca Books
For Now: Poems by Taiju Geri Wilimek,
Paintings by Marley Kaul
“Beautiful. Solid. Simple. Clear. Concise. Such colors.”—"Kainei"
— Edward Espé Brown
“The new book, For Now, by Marley Kaul and Geri Wlimek
is a masterful duet, offering a calm and even stoic simplicity in
its pairing of poems and paintings. That deft simplicity shields
from ready view two lifetimes of steadfast, complex inquiry,
meditation and craftsmanship. Here, within these covers,
they make it look deceptively easy.”
—Lynn R Miller, Painter, farmer and author.
“The book For Now is profound. Profound in the
implications of its title, and profound in the artworks and
poems depicted. Its joyful presence has entered my life
at this time of deep solitude during the Pandemic Winter.
The book’s exuberant paintings and thoughtful poems promote
an experience of quiet contemplation. These are “slow” works,
meant to be lingered over or returned to often. The artist
and poet have given us a masterpiece from their long lives
of paying attention to the wonders around them.”
—Dyan Rey
We Sit : Poems by Taiju Geri Wilimek,
Paintings by Marley Kaul
“We Sit shares a beautiful journey into the
great matter of life and death. It brings a bright light
to bear on the inner experience of anyone considering
these matters. I join Marley and Geri in this
inquiry with a sincere sense of depth and warmth.”
—Shoken Winecoff, Abbot Ryumonji Zen Monastery
“I am blown away by this book, its beauty and the peace
I feel looking at it.”
— Susan Gilmore, Susan Gilmore Photography
“What a beautiful book! Every spread, left and right,
offers its own meditation. Even the poems’ shapes tell
stories. It’s only right to slow down and pay attention.
I savored each painting and poem multiple times.”
—Shannon Pennefeather Gardner, Editor
“Exquisite healing.”
—Martin DeWitt, artist and former the Director and
Curator of the Tweed Museum of Art and the Founding
Director and Curator of the Fine Art Museum,
Western Carolina University.
The new book, Letters to Isabella, presents 77 egg tempera paintings by American artist Marley Kaul. A letter to his granddaughter accompanies each painting, offering an intimate look at the artistic process and the personal and professional influences reflected in his work.
- "Marley Kaul is a contemporary egg tempera master... His work in both content and energy emphasizes his connection with natural forms and poetic metaphor." - “Marley Kaul has taken a unique approach to the identity issue─theme and critique─central to contemporary art since the nineties. He has pierced a hole in the blatant, strident, political side of “identity” and has brought us personally home to a place of the heart. Through his stewardship of his rural land and knowledge of plants and animals he has offered metaphors about the principled practice of art and life and the changing aspects of growing and seeing.”
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