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Cover photo and IBN as given. Beautiful new soft cover book, clean and tight text, almost imperceptible edge wear on cover especially corners and spine. Cover depicts four native Americans from painting by Chas. Bird King. Outstanding quality with stunning reproductions and informative, comprehensive text
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Selected paintings and sculptures from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art are on view in a nationally touring exhibition, and this attractive catalogue shows what a rich, varied and relevant colleciton it is. Alvin Fisher's spellbinding 1820 oil of Niagara Falls arched by a rainbow holds out the visionary promise of the American dream. But Albert Ryder's violent, stormy Flying Dutchman (1887) seems to mirror a national psyche in profound turmoil. In Ivan Albright's cynical The Farmer's Kitchen, painted in 1933, the morbid portrayal of a wrinkled old woman with her manic cat bespeaks the chaos of the Depression. Pictures by Kline and Rauschenberg put us in touch with modern dislocations and anguish. Among the 81 works reproduced here in full-page color plates are Frederic E. Church's spectacular Aurora Borealis, Whistler's semi-abstract meditation on a Chilean harbor and Baziotes's biomorphic squiggles. The album is a good place to make the acquaintance of such neglected artists as social caricaturist Paul Cadmus, Surrealist Helen Ludeberg and Impressionist Julian Weir. Interleaved with their works are pictures by Cole, Copley, Homer, Prendergast, Wyeth, Cassatt.
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From Library Journal
Formerly the National Collection of Fine Arts, a department of the Smithsonian, the renamed National Museum of Fine Arts embraces the Renwick Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the former National Collection of Fine Arts. Treasures is a catalog for a national touring exhibition, mostly of work by well-known American artists like Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper. There are almost 200 plates, half in color, of the 81 featured paintings and sculptures. The only regret is that interesting work by more obscure Americans, of which the National Museum holds many examples, was not included in the exhibition. Recommended. Raymond L. Wilson, Humanities Dept., San Francisco State Univ., Cal.
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- PublisherSmithsonian
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0874745950
- ISBN 13 9780874745955
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages254
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The catalogue of an exhibition at six museums from 1986-1987. This handsome volume highlights eighty-one paintings and sculptures representing the best--and the breadth--of the National Museum of American Art. Each work appears in a full-page color plate and is accompanied by a brief essay exploring its style and content. In addition, the book presents brief biographies of the artists, as well as illustrated essays on twenty-six painters and sculptors whose work, in quality and number, are of special significance to the collection. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show minor shelf wear; rear cover shows creases. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Corners lightly bumped. An excellent reading copy. Note that oversized or heavier books may require additional postage. Seller Inventory # M0858
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