Art Books on the Move

Connecticut-based Weatherhill, which specializes in distribution and publication of books on art, Asia and the Pacific, has taken over distribution for the museum publishers previously represented by 12-year-old Arthur Schwartz and Co.'s Woodstocker Books distribution division. Art Gallery of South Australia, Ashmolean Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Museum Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, National Museums of Scotland and Yale University Art Gallery will now be represented to the trade by Continental Sales, which handles trade sales for Weatherhill. Husband-and-wife team Jo and Arthur Schwartz of Arthur Schwartz and Co. will call on specialty markets for Weatherhill and search out new museum accounts.

"We'll continue to be actively involved," Jo told PW. "We wanted to free ourselves from distribution and work on special projects." One of Schwartz & Co.'s first new ventures is an exhibition catalogue on William Morris to be published next month in the U.S. by Art Gallery of South Australia, which has the second largest collection of the designer's work outside England. Morris & Co. depicts wallpapers, tapestries, ceramics and furniture designed by Morris's company and includes five color fold-outs as well as 147 color plates.