One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Kandinsky was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter group and one of the first to begin moving toweards pure abstraction. His works are to be found in every important museum in Europe and America. In Klange / Sounds, he combined poetry with woodcut to suggest the equivalence of the visible and the audible ("Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter," said Keats; Kandinsky might have agreed). In these woodcuts, one can see him leaving his Russian folk-art roots behind as the images he presents become less and less representational.

Select Bibliography: Wassily Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art, ed. Kenneth C. Lindsay & Peter Vergo (Da Capo, 1994); Wassily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual in Art ed. & trans. Hilla Rebay (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1946); Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky at the Guggenheim (Abbeville Press, n.d. [1983]); Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours 1900-1921 (Sotheby's, 1992); Vivian Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Watercolours 1922-1944 (Sotheby's, 1994); Vivian Endicott Barnett and Armin Zweite, Kandinsky: Kleine Freuden. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen (Prestel-Verlag, 1992); Christian Derouet, Kandinsky in Paris: 1934-1944 (Guggenheim Museum, 1985)l Hugo Düchting, Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting (Benedikt Taschen, 1990); Peter Jelavich, and Peg Weis, Kandinsky in Munich: 1896-1914 (Guggenheim Museum,1982), François Le Targat, Kandinsky (Ediciones Poligrafa, 1986); G. Di. San Lazzaro, ed. Homage to Wassily Kandinsky (NY: Leon Amiel, 1976); Michel Seuphor, Abstract Painting: Fifty Years of Accomplishment from Kandinsky to Jackson Pollock (Abrams, 1964); Louise Averill Svendson, Kandinsky Watercolors: A Selection from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Hilda von Rebay Foundation (Guggenheim Museum, 1980); Annette and Luc Vezin, Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter (Editions Pierre Terrail, 1992); Peg Weiss, Kandinsky in Munich: The Formative Jugendstil Years (Princeton University Press, 1979).

Prints: The Catalgoue Raisonné of Kandinsky's Prints by Hans K. Roethel is almost unavailable and terrifyingly expensive (it is also printed in German); all prints are identified by an "R" number after the title. A far more available work, also by Roethel, is The Graphic Work of Kandinsky: A Loan Exhibition (NY: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1974). This show, organized by the Guggenheim Museum, opened there and circulated to the following institutions: The Cincinnati Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Marion Kogler Mcnay Arts Institute (San Antonio), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Fort Worth Art Center, the William Nelson Rockhill Gallery of Art, Kansas City MO, the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Worcester Art Museum (MA), and The Phillips Collection, Washington DC.