American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1 - Hardcover

Caldwell, John; Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez; Johnson, Dale T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691037957 ISBN 13: 9780691037950

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This work completes the three-volume catalog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's outstanding collection of American painting. Volume I focuses on an important collection of some 315 paintings by nearly 120 artists dating from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The museum's collection features eighteenth-century portraits and history paintings by such important artists as John Smibert, Joseph Blackburn, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull. Works of art by the founders of the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, along with America's most successful genre painters, William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, are also included in this catalog. The catalog proceeds chronologically, providing a thorough discussion of each painting, a biography of the artist, bibliographical references, an exhibition history, and information on provenance.

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From the Back Cover

The paintings in this book are arranged chronologically by the dates of the artists. A biography of each artist is included, along with bibliographical references. Every painting is illustrated and thoroughly discussed. There are references, an exhibition history, and provenance.Related works-preliminary drawings and studies, or copies, prints, and replicas-are also listed and often illustrated.

About the Author

The late John Caldwell was Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The late Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque was Director of The Chipstone Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691037957
• ISBN 13: 9780691037950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Luhrs Kathleen, Rebora Carrier, Windels Patricia R.