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Modern American realism : the Sara Roby Foundation Collection / Virginia M. Mecklenburg ; with an essay by William Kloss.
LIBRA N6512 .M38 1987
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. (Virginia McCord), 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sara Roby Foundation--Art collections--Exhibitions.
- Sara Roby Foundation.
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.)--Exhibitions.
- National Museum of American Art (U.S.).
- Art, American--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art--Washington (D.C.)--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Exhibitions.
- Art museums.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Illustrating 113 works by 101 artists that span more than 60 years of American art after World War I, Modern American Realism includes outstanding examples of many kinds of realism -- psychological, socio-political, spiritual, and satirical, with surrealism and magic realism showing up as well.
- Biographies and short bibliographies for each artist make the book especially useful. Among the artists included are Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Mark Tobey, Gaston Lachaise, Raphael Soyer, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Evergood, George Tooker, and Paul Cadmus.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition.
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0874746914
- OCLC:
- 14002184
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