Southampton - The celebrated painter Jane Wilson will be present to sign copies of her new book, "Jane Wilson: Horizons," at the opening reception of the Parrish's upcoming exhibition American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Saturday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m.

The signing will follow "Talking Landscape," a conversation in the Museum's concert all at 6 p.m. featuring artists Jennifer Bartlett, April Gornik, and Will Cotton, with Parrish Director Terrie Sultan and Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education, Alicia Longwell.

Just published by Merrell Publishers, London, "Jane Wilson: Horizons," the first comprehensive monograph on the artist's work and life, includes an essay by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photographer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, an interview by the writer Justin Spring, superb reproductions of more than 90 of Wilson's paintings, and numerous photographs of the artist's family and friends.

Wilson, whose 1958 painting "Trees at Mecox" is included in 'American Landscapes,' has been exhibiting steadily since 1953, when she was a founding member of New York's legendary Hansa Gallery. Her paintings are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to name just a few.

The artist's recent paintings are luminous landscapes that hover between abstraction and representation. Inspired by the sky, sea, and landscape of the East End, Wilson focuses on events of the natural world - seasons of the year, times of day, and the many moods of the weather. She divides her time between New York City and Southampton.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.