David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
by Carl Little, Barbara O’Brien, David Bates, Rachael Blackburn Cozad (Foreword), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: July 2010, 114 pp. (hardcover)

Overwhelmed by the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Texas-based painter David Bates has chronicled the people and places along America’s bucolic Gulf Coast, making portraits of the people dispossessed by the disaster.