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Expressions of innocence and eloquence : selections from the Jane Katcher collection of Americana

Title
Expressions of innocence and eloquence : selections from the Jane Katcher collection of Americana / editors, Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, Ruth Wolfe ; catalog by David A. Schorsch, Eileen M. Smiles ; photography by Gavin Ashworth ; essays by Jean M. Burks [and others].
Publication
Seattle : Marquand Books ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Additional Authors
  • Schorsch, David A.
  • Wolfe, Ruth.
  • Smiles, Eileen M.
Description
427 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Subject
  • Katcher, Jane > Art collections > Catalogs
  • Americana > Catalogs
  • Folk art > United States > History > 18th century > Catalogs
  • Folk art > United States > History > 19th century > Catalogs
  • Americana > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
Note
  • "Published in association with the exhibition "Made for love: selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana," February 13-August 26, 2007, at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Some thoughts on collecting / Jane Katcher -- Humanizing the mundane / Robert Shaw -- Folk portraits / Paul S. D'Ambrosio -- Two masterworks by John Brewster, Jr. / Paul S. D'Ambrosio -- Records of life / Richard Miller -- Four portraits by Sheldon Peck / Richard Miller -- United as this heart you see : memories of friendship and family / Robert Shaw -- Portraits of children / Robin Jaffee Frank -- Made for children's use / Erin Eisenbarth -- Academy and school work / Robert Shaw -- The American Windsor style / Charles Santore -- Painted furniture : from plain to fancy / Patricia E. Kane -- Boxes and baskets / Robert Shaw -- Surfaces of illusion : mocha and spatter wares / Robert Hunter -- Folk sculpture : for diversion and utility / Richard Miller -- Shaker products and principles : a study in beauty and belief / Jean M. Burks -- The art of becoming Americans : observations on Pennsylvania-German folk art / Scott T. Swank -- Jacob Strickler's cupboard / Philip Zea -- Catalog of the collection / Edited by David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles.
ISBN
  • 0300119658 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780300119657 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006015953
OCLC
  • ocm68800119
  • SCSB-5313237
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