A handbook of the American Wing by R.T.H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing

Halsey, R. T. Haines (Richard Townley Haines), 1865-1942, author.

Cornelius, Charles Over, 1890-1937, author.

Contributor:

Downs, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing--Guidebooks.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

Furniture--United States--History--Catalogs.

Furniture.

Art objects--United States--History--Catalogs.

Art objects.

Interior decoration--United States--History--Catalogs.

Interior decoration.

Architecture, Domestic--United States--History--Catalogs.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Colonial--History--Catalogs.

Architecture, Colonial.

United States.

Genre:

Catalogs

Collection catalogs

Guidebooks

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 312 pages) illustrations, plans

Edition:

Sixth edition revised by Joseph Downs

Other Title:

American Wing.

Place of Publication:

New York Printed and sold by the Museum 1938

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is devoted to American art of the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican periods. This handbook includes floor plans of the American Wing galleries as they appeared in 1938 and presents academic essays alongside a catalogue of the collection which describes the dominant ornamentation, materials, and styles of early America's decorative arts"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Contents:

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the sixth edition

Introduction. The American Wing : its plan and arrangement

Handbook of the American Wing

Third floor : the first period of early American art, from the beginnings of New England through the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The rooms of the first period

Second floor : the second period of early American art, from the first quarter of the eighteenth century to the early republic. The rooms of the second period

First floor : the third period of early American art : the early republic to 1825. The rooms of the third period

Exterior

Notes:

Includes index

"Of this sixth edition 2,000 copies were printed, August, 1938"--Colophon

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing. Handbook of the American Wing.

OCLC:

608694095