Facing the new world : Jewish portraits in colonial and federal America / Richard Brilliant [exhibition curator and editor] ; with an essay by Ellen Smith ; research assistance provided by Elizabeth Lamb Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brilliant, Richard, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Ellen, 1951- writer of essay.

Clark, Elizabeth Lamb, researcher.

Rosenbaum, Joan, writer of foreword.

Potts, Kathryn, project director.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Maryland Historical Society, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Jews.

Jewish portraits--United States--Exhibitions.

Jewish portraits.

Jews--United States--Biography.

Portrait painting--United States--Exhibitions.

Portrait painting.

United States--Biography--Portraits--Exhibitions.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogues.

Exhibition catalogs.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 111 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, genealogical tables ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Jewish Museum ; Munich : Prestel, [1997]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

"Facing the New World features important paintings by distinguished American artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Charles Willson Peale, John Wesley Jarvis, and Ralph Earl. There are portraits by unknown folk-artists and some comparative paintings of non-Jewish subjects, including a work by Joshua Johnson, an accomplished African-American painter active in the Baltimore area. The book also shows examples of early American drawings, silhouettes, decorative arts, and Jewish ritual objects."--BOOK JACKET. "In a groundbreaking discussion, Richard Brilliant identifies the European models of representation that artists drew upon in their portraits of Jewish sitters, demonstrating how the self is portrayed by means of cultural roles and images, and how imagery and other modes of representation evolved over time."--BOOK JACKET. "Ellen Smith explores the tension between Jewish self-representation is portraits and the social reality of early American Jewish life. She reads the portraits as social documents, forming part of the larger material world of early American. Smith captures the texture of everyday family life and the Jewish community's relationship with the larger society, documented by diaries, letters, business records, and domestics objects that have survived to this day."--Jacket.

Contents:

Lenders to the exhibition

Foreword / Joan Rosenbaum

Acknowledgments / Kathryn Potts

Essays. Portraits as silent claimants : Jewish class aspirations and representational strategies in colonial and Federal America / Richard Brilliant ; Portraits of a community : the image and experience of early American Jews / Ellen Smith

Color plates

Catalogue of the exhibition

Appendix. Chronology : highlights of early American Jewish history, 1585-1830 ; Map : Jewish communities in America at the time of the Revolutionary War ; Table : estimated Jewish population of the United States, 1654-1830 ; Genealogies : Levy-Franks family, Etting/Gratz families ; Selected bibliography : early American portraiture ; Selected bibliography : early American Jewish history

Index of portrait subjects

Index of artists

Board of trustees of the Jewish Museum

Contributors

Photo credits.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 21, 1997-January 11, 1998 and the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, February 19-May 24, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 21, 1997-January 11, 1998 and the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, February 19-May 24, 1998.

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Facing the new world.

ISBN:

3791318632

9783791318639

OCLC:

37392883