Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 29 - July 10, 1988. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 17 - November 27, 1988; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., December 14, 1988 - February 12, 1989; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 15 - May 28, 1989. Includes chronology, chronological list of works, and bibliography. With 139 illustrations, of which 43 are in color. "The seventy-seven major works reproduced here reflect Richter's diverse shifts in style over the years, from his early paintings based on amateur snapshots and newspaper photographs, through his formally reductive and sensuously lean work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, to his more recent large abstract paintings, multifaceted and overflowing with color...This celebration of his work to date - amply illustrated from the whole gamut of his output - includes a general introduction by I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as a wide-ranging interview with Richter by the eminent art historian and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, published here for the first time, and a detailed analysis of Richter's career and artistic significance by Roald Nasgaard, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto." -- publisher's statement.