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Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum
Thomas Denenberg
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Description for Painting a Nation: American Art at Shelburne Museum
Hardback. An in-depth look at one of the richest collections of American art, assembled by Electra Havemeyer Webb, renowned collector and founder of Shelburne Museum. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 Colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847859580
SKU
V9780847859580
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About Thomas Denenberg
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.
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