Research Catalog

Title

An American view : masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum / Teresa A. Carbone.

Author

Brooklyn Museum

Publication

New York : Brooklyn Museum ; London : In association with D. Giles ; [Easthampton, MA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club], c2006.

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Additional Authors

Carbone, Teresa A.

Description

160 p. : col. ill.; 23 x 27 cm.

Summary

"This new volume accompanies and complements the publication of the two-volume authoritative catalogue of the Brooklyn Museum's collection of American paintings by artists born by 1876. It provides a richly illustrated general survey of American painting from the late colonial era to the early years of the twentieth century, as presented in sixty-four of the Museum's most significant paintings by American artists. Each painting is illustrated in color, and the selected works are arranged in four broad chronological sections: early American art; art of the 1830s to 1850s; American painting in the Civil War era; and cosmopolitan painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Extended captions present the key features of each painting and artist, and of the wider artistic context of the work and the period in which it was produced."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum

Subject

• Brooklyn Museum > Catalogs
• Painting, American > Catalogs
• Painting > New York > Catalogs

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Note

• Distributor from book jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 158) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Perspectives on a collection : historic American paintings at the Brooklyn Museum -- First impressions : early American art -- Coining American subjects : the antebellum decades -- New maturity : American painting in the Civil War era -- Remaking the American image : cosmopolitan painting at the turn of the century.

ISBN

• 0872731545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1904832113 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781904832119

LCCN

^^2005013524

OCLC

• 60492308
• SCSB-10429060

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library