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American paintings at the High Museum of Art / essays by Judy L. Larson, Donelson Hoopes, and Phyllis Peet ; introduction by Gudmund Vigtel ; foreword by Ned Rifkin.

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American paintings at the High Museum of Art / essays by Judy L. Larson, Donelson Hoopes, and Phyllis Peet ; introduction by Gudmund Vigtel ; foreword by Ned Rifkin.
Author
High Museum of Art.
Publication
New York : Hudson Hills Press in association with the High Museum of Art, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Larson, Judy L.
  • Hoopes, Donelson F.
  • Peet, Phyllis.
Description
216 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.
Summary
"Atlanta's High Museum of Art came into being through Mrs. Joseph M. High's 1926 gift to the city of her Peachtree Street home. In 1949 J. J. Haverty's daughter Mary E. Haverty bequeathed to the museum the Haverty collection of paintings, which included many outstanding American works of the early twentieth century. Today the museum's fine collection of American art includes nearly two hundred paintings and watercolors, ranging from a 1753 portrait by Jeremiah Theus to the 1929-30 Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by Henry Ossawa Tanner, an African-American protege of Thomas Eakins." "This lavish volume presents seventy-eight paintings by sixty-four artists in oversize colorplates with comprehensive documentation and individual essays that place the works in the context of their creators' lives and careers. Among the notable examples are works from the eighteenth century by Copley and Earl; from the nineteenth by Bierstadt, Blakelock, Cole, Cropsey, Doughty, Harnett, Heade, Inness, Kensett, Moran, the Peales, Peto, Prendergast, Sargent, Sully, and Whittredge; and from the twentieth by Bellows, Cassatt, Chase, Glackens, Hassam, Henri, Luks, and Sloan."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • High Museum of Art > Catalogs
  • Painting, American > Catalogs
  • Painting > Atlanta > Catalogs
Genre/Form
Catalogs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1555950949 :
  • 1555950957 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^94013850^
OCLC
30356220
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library