John White Alexander and the construction of national identity : cosmopolitan American art, 1880-1915 / Sarah J. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Sarah J., 1956-

Contributor:

Alexander, John White, 1856-1915.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexander, John White, 1856-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Alexander, John White.

Alexander, John White, 1856-1915.

Internationalism in art.

Nationalism and art--United States.

Nationalism and art.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

133 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]

Contents:

1. Reluctant Cosmopolitan: New York in the 1880s 21

2. L'invasion etrangere: Paris in the 1890s 31

3. Tracing the Trajectory of Americanness: Paris to Buffalo, 1900-1901 53

4. Pausing in Pittsburgh: Constructing Social Cohesion at the Carnegie Institute, 1905-1908 73

5. A "Salon of America"?: Defining Nationalism at the National Academy of Design, 1909-1915 93

Black and White

Picture of John White Alexander in his Paris Studio, ca. 1890's 17

James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1871 22

Mrs. Samuel Tilton (Helen Reed), 1884 26

Mrs. Draper, 1888 28

Alexandre Cabanel, Birth of Venus, 1863 39

Fancy Dress, 1895 40

Gil Baer, Les Salons Comiques: Salon du Champ-de-Mars (No. 1), La Lanterne, 28 April 1894 42

Gil Baer, Loie Fuller au repos, detail of Les Salons Comiques: Salon du Champ-de-Mars (No. 1), La Lanterne, 28 April 1894 43

Installation Photograph, First Annual International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, 1896 45

Le bol bleu (The Blue Bowl), 1898 48

Le noeud vert (The Green Bow), 1898 50

Panel for Music Room, 1894 52

M. L. de Fourcaud, "Les Peintres Americains a l'Exposition," Le Gaulois du Dimanche, 15-16 September 1900 57

Arch of the States, Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, 1898 60

Dewey Soap Advertisement, 1890s 62

Greater America Exposition: First Colonial Exhibit, poster, 1899 64

Electric Tower at Night, Pan-American Exposition, 1901 66

No Room on This Ship, Harper's Weekly, 5 October 1901 68

Overview of Carnegie Institute Murals, 2nd-floor detail, 1905-8 75

Fire/Toil, Carnegie Institute Murals, 1st-floor detail, 1905-8 76

"Women Developing Mannish Figure While Man is Becoming Effeminate," New York Evening World, 23 November 1910 78

Carnegie Institute Murals, 2nd-floor detail, 1905-8 80

Carnegie Institute Murals, 2nd-floor detail, 1905-8 82

March of Progress, Carnegie Institute Murals, 3rd-floor detail, 1905-8 83

"The Great Strike

Pittsburgh in the Hands of the Mob," Harper's Weekly, 11 August 1877 84

Frank E. Wing, "Thirty-Five Years of Typhoid," Charities and the Commons, 1909 86

Edwin Blashfield, America, detail of Evolution of Civilization, Library of Congress, 1896 89

The Printing Press, detail of The Evolution of the Book, Library of Congress, 1896 90

"The Need of a National Academy, and Its Value to the Growth of Art in America," The Craftsman, March 1910 94

"Even Richmond, Ind., Has a Better Art Exhibition Than New York," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 25 September 1910 95

A Woman in Rose, 1900-1 101

Mrs. John White Alexander, 1902 103

Azelea/Portrait of Charlotte Colgate Abbe, 1885

Portrait gris, 1893

Repos (Repose), 1895

Isabella et le pot de basilic (Isabella and the Pot of Basil), 1897

Le rayon du soleil (Ray of Sunlight), 1899

Apotheosis of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Murals, 2nd-floor detail, 1905-8

Memories, 1903

Sunlight, 1909.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-130) and index.

ISBN:

0874137969

OCLC:

50091626