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Painting a nation : American art at Shelburne Museum

Title: Painting a nation : American art at Shelburne Museum / Thomas Denenberg, John Wilmerding, Katie Wood Kirchhoff ; with contributions by Margaret E. Burgess, Erin Corrales-Diaz, Charlotte Emans Moore, Jacquelyn Oak, Nancie Ravenel Marc Simpson, and William H. Truettner.
Author: Shelburne Museum, owner.
Publication: New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, [2017]

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Description

160 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Electra Havemeyer Webb assembled Shelburne Museum's trove of American paintings in the late 1950s, creating a renowned and rich survey of American portraits, landscapes, marine paintings, sporting art, still lifes, and genre scenes from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. During an era that preferred European modernism and abstraction, Webb's visionary endeavor presented a new story of the United States: an attractive and industrious nation with its own valuable artistic traditions. This handsome book features the best of Shelburne's American paintings, including works by colonial painters John Wollaston and John Singleton Copley, portraits by William Matthew Prior and Ammi Phillips, Hudson River School landcapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and John Frederick Kensett, and scenes of American life by Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. The collection is also notable for its great depth in the works by Fitz Henry Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Carl Rungius, Grandma Moses, and Ogden Pleissner. Exhibition: Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA (01.01. - 31.12.2016).

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Thomas Denenberg -- Outdoor painting : Shelburne Museum in context / John Wilmerding -- A gallery of American talent / Thomas Denenberg -- Catalogue / introductory essays by Katie Wood Kirchhoff.

Call Number

JQF 17-1652

ISBN

9780847859580
0847859584
9780847859597
0847859592

OCLC

967836107

Author

Shelburne Museum, owner.

Title

Painting a nation : American art at Shelburne Museum / Thomas Denenberg, John Wilmerding, Katie Wood Kirchhoff ; with contributions by Margaret E. Burgess, Erin Corrales-Diaz, Charlotte Emans Moore, Jacquelyn Oak, Nancie Ravenel Marc Simpson, and William H. Truettner.

Publisher

New York, NY : Skira Rizzoli Publications, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Denenberg, Thomas Andrew, 1967- author.

Wilmerding, John, author.

Wood Kirchhoff, Katie, author.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-1652

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