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Painting summer in New England / Trevor Fairbrother.
- Title
- Painting summer in New England / Trevor Fairbrother.
- Author
- Fairbrother, Trevor J.
- Publication
- Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : In association with Yale University Press, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ND1460.N46 F35 2006 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Description
- 133 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "This book takes a fresh look at the lively, lyrical, and insightful ways in which painters have interpreted the special intersection of place and season in America's northeast corner. In addition to their aesthetic appeal, these paintings reveal the social and cultural preoccupations of the period in which they were made. The book explores the richness of imagery that can be understood as "New England" as well as the remarkable range of expression that the term "painting"
- Encompasses."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Art
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, April 22, Sept. 4, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Season and place : New England in summer -- Quiet retreats -- Sea and shore -- The farm -- Plant life -- Architecture -- Streets and gathering places -- Individuals -- New England nudes -- Coastal light -- A selection of poems.
- ISBN
- 0300116926 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 63396720
- SCSB-10674574
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library