The Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection

Peters, Susan Dodge

ISBN 10: 1555950191 / ISBN 13: 9781555950194

Published by Gallery of Fine Art of, 1988

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First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($50.00 price intact). Published by Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Quarto. White cloth boards stamped in gold with brown endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. A small spot of sticker residue on flyleaf. Dust jacket is like new. A fine copy of this catalog of pieces at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. 268 pages. ISBN: 1555950191. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection
• Publisher: Gallery of Fine Art of
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555950191
• ISBN 13: 9781555950194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

The expanded handbook to the MAG's collections.

Reviews

One of the country's finest regional art collections, yet little known outside of western New York, the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery is home to such diverse works as Thomas Hart Benton's raucous Boomtown and a relaxed, gilded Chinese Bodhisattva dating from the 13th century. This handsome catalogue, which celebrates the gallery's 75th anniversary, is a smorgasbord of treats, ranging from a mosaic of a Roman goddess excavated at Antioch, to a medieval French polychromed Doubting Thomas , to abstract sculpture by Beverly Pepper and Alexander Calder. Works by El Greco, Van Dyck, Eakins, Degas and Rodin are standouts, although most of the 316 illustrations are in black and white. The mini-essay accompanying Jean-Francois Millet's pastel drawing of a noble laborer notes, "The peasant's earth-tone clothing . . . and potato-shaped nose ally him with the clumps of soil beneath him." All the commentaries are in this veindown-to-earth, surprising and attentive to detail.
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