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American beauty : paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920 / Graham W.J. Beal.
LIBRA N560 .B435 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beal, Graham W. J. (Graham William John), 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detroit Institute of Arts--Catalogs.
- Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Painting, American.
- Sculpture, American.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Scala, 2002.
- Summary:
- American Beauty highlights works from one of the United States' most respected museum collections of American art. In his engaging essay, Graham W. J. Beale, the Director of the Institute, places the 96 works in historical context.
- Beginning with the first truly homegrown talent -- John Singleton Copley -- in the eighteenth century to the social realism of John Sloan in the early twentieth, an encyclopedic view of American painting is presented.
- Among the artists represented are: Thomas Cole, the father of American landscapes; Winslow Homer, chronicler of American life during and after the Civil War; portraitist Thomas Eakins; impressionist Mary Cassatt; and the tonalist George Inness. Sculpture from Hiram Powers, among others, round out this survey of the outstanding American holdings in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [128]) and index.
- Published for a touring exhibition of highlights from the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection of American art.
- ISBN:
- 1857592859
- OCLC:
- 49594811
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