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The Boston Athenaeum art exhibition index, 1827-1874 / compiled and edited by Robert F. Perkins, Jr. & William J. Gavin III ; Mary Margaret Shaughnessy, assistant editor.
LIBRA N7525 .P472
Available from offsite location
LIBRA N7525 .P472
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkins, Robert F.
- Gavin, William J., 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Athenaeum--Indexes.
- Boston Athenaeum.
- Art--Exhibitions--Indexes.
- Art.
- Art--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Indexes.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 325 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : The Library of the Boston Athenaeum ; Cambridge, MA : distributed by MIT Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- Between 1827 and 1874 the Athenaeum exhibited the work of over fifteen hundred artists including old masters, contemporary Europeans, watercolorists, and miniaturists. Among the major American painters and sculptors who exhibited their work in the Athenaeum were Allston, Cole, Coplely, Greenough, Powers, Salmon, Sully, Trumbull, and West. The Athenaeum's set of art exhibition catalogues for these forty-six years provides the longest continuing record of art exhibited during this time in Boston.
- ISBN:
- 0262160757
- OCLC:
- 6221758
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