"Because he works in the vernacular of realism, viewers look for verisimilitude in Daniel Sprick's work, as if his paintings were a mirror of reality. The more we dwell on his paintings, however, the more we become aware that they are anything but a part of our world, and are, instead, poetic renditions of his own making"--Timothy J. Standring

This book, the first devoted entirely to Daniel Sprick's work, accompanies a solo exhibition of recent work at the Denver Art Museum. In addition to full-page plates of nearly fifty paintings, mostly portraits, the publication features an essay by Timothy J. Standring that describes Sprick's painting process in detail.