From the weekly shopping list to the Ten Commandments, ourlives are shaped by lists. Whether dashed off as a quick reminder,or carefully constructed as an inventory, this humble form ofdocumentation provides insight into its maker's personal habitsand decision-making processes. This is especially true for artists,whose day-to-day acts of living and art-making overlap andinform each other. Artists' lists shed uncover a host of unbeknownstmotivations, attitudes, and opinions about their workand the work of others. Lists presents almost seventy artifacts,including to do lists, membership lists, lists of paintings sold,lists of books to read, lists of appointments made and met, listsof supplies to get, lists of places to see, and lists of people whoare in. At times introspective, humorous, and resolute, but alwaysrevealing and engaging, Lists is a unique firsthand account ofAmerican cultural history that augments the personal biographiesof some of the most celebrated and revered artists of thelast two centuries. Many of the lists are historically important,throwing a flood of light on a moment, movement, or event; othersare private, providing an intimate view of an artist's personallife: Pablo Picasso itemized his recommendations for the ArmoryShow in 1912; architect Eero Saarinen enumerated the goodqualities of the then New York Times art editor and critic AlineBernstein, his second wife; sculptor Alexander Calder's addressbook reveals the who's who of the Parisian avant-garde in theearly twentieth century. In the hands of their creators, theseartifacts become works of art in and of themselves. Lists includesrarely seen specimens by Vito Acconci, Leo Castelli, JosephCornell, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, LeeKrasner, H. L. Mencken, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman,Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Rauschenberg,Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, and Andrew Wyeth.