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Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum

Hardback

Main Details

Title Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Denenberg
By (author) John Wilmerding
By (author) Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 290,Width 239
Category/GenreThe arts - general issues
ISBN/Barcode 9780847859580
ClassificationsDewey:759.1307474317
Audience
General
Illustrations 100 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Publishing Details

Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
Imprint Skira Rizzoli
Publication Date 6 June 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

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 endeavour 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.

Author Biography

Thomas Denenberg is director and Katie Wood Kirchhoff is associate curator at Shelburne Museum, Vermont. John Wilmerding is Sarofim Professor of American Art, emeritus, at Princeton University.