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Today The National Museum Of American Art Has The World's Largest Collection Of Works By This Country's Artists, From Colonial Limners To The Contemporary Avant-garde. This Book, With Its Vast Array Of Full-color Illustrations And Accompanying Text, Invites Readers To Explore The Remarkably Wide Range Of The Museum's Holdings. Rather Than Simply Presenting Major Works In The Collection, The Book Is Organized Thematically To Reflect The Variety Of Concerns And Aesthetic Visions That Have Shaped American Art Over The Past Three Centuries. A Section Titled People Thus Provides An Overview Of Portraiture In America, From The Traditional Eighteenth-century Work Of Charles Willson Peale To Modern Innovators Such As Man Ray. Early America Focuses On The Efforts Of Artists To Capture On Canvas The Broad Vistas Of The New Country And Its Native American Inhabitants. In These And The Seven Other Sections Of The Book, The Accompanying Texts Have Been Compiled From A Wide Spectrum Of Sources: Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Newspaper And Magazine Articles. The Assortment Of Anecdotes, Brief Commentaries By Critics And Curators, And The Artist's Own Words Take The Reader Off The Beaten Path

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Author

[foreword by Elizabeth Broun

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780937311202

Category

reference

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism

Rating

4.8 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14