GEORGE AULT. New Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988. 1st edition. 9 x 11 softcover catalog with 54 pages and 41 color and black and white illustrations devoted to the life and work of the American Scene Precisionist/Realist George Ault. Exhibition catalog for a show organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art from April 8 to June 8, 1988: the first solo exhibition of Ault's work, organized 40 years after his suicide in Woodstock, New York. - George Copeland Ault (1891–1948) was an American painter loosely grouped with the Precisionist movement and, though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, his most lasting work is more magic realism.