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Beauty's legacy : gilded age portraits in America
- Title
- Beauty's legacy : gilded age portraits in America / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati; with a contribution by Valerie Steele.
- Publication
- New York : The New-York Historical Society in association with D Giles Limited, 2013.
- ©2013
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- Description
- 184 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm
- Summary
- Named after a series of charity portraiture shows held by the New York social elite during the 1890s, Beauty's Legacy examines the resurgence of society portraiture in the United States between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. The catalog features 65 portraits from the New-York Historical Society collection: sitters range from celebrated beauties to business titans, among them Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter, and Mary Gardiner Thompson; featured artists include John Singer Sargent, James Carroll Beckwith, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Eastman Johnson, and Benjamin Curtis Porter. Accompanying entries provide insight into patterns of patronage within a social milieu obsessed with identity and appearance. Essays consider issues such as celebrity, exclusivity, philanthropy, and the competing ideals of natural and enhanced beauty.
- Subjects
- New-York Historical Society Exhibitions
- Portrait miniatures, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Portrait miniatures, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
- United States > Biography > Portraits > Exhibitions
- Portrait painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
- Portrait painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
- Note
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition held September 27, 2013-March 9, 2014 at the New-York Historical Society.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Gilded age portraiture: cultural capital personified -- Peter Marié's gallery of beauty: "a dream of fair women" -- Miniatures -- Painted beauty: portraits, fashion, and cosmetics in the gilded age -- Paintings and sculpture.
- Call Number
- JQF 14-568
- ISBN
- 9781907804182
- 1907804188
- OCLC
- 862232870
- Title
- Beauty's legacy : gilded age portraits in America / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati; with a contribution by Valerie Steele.
- Publisher
- New York : The New-York Historical Society in association with D Giles Limited, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gallati, Barbara Dayer.Steele, Valerie.New-York Historical Society.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 14-568