American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection

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Arts & Photography

Johnson, Dale T.

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The first american painting to enter the Museum's collection, Henry Peters Gray's Wages of War, was received in 1872, two years after the Museum's founding. Since then over 1600 American paintings by about 800 artists have entered the collection through purchase, gift, and bequest. Of these, some 950 paintings by approximately 400 artists born before 1876 are the holding of the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture. The Museum's collection of American paintings, give its overall quality and comprehensiveness, is perhaps the finest that exists in public or private hands.
 This book is the first in a three-volume catalogue which not only will be of special use to the general public in its direct and easily comprehensible style and informative text, but also it will be an invaluable tool for scholars because of the references and scholarly substance. The works included in this catalogue form a comprehensive overview of American painting during the colonial and early republican periods. Remarkably enough, almost every artist of note working in this time span is represented here by either a masterpiece or a work of outstanding quality. The Metropolitan Museum's collection of American paintings is probably the finest anywhere. It has its weakness, and the reader may notice a slant toward New York artist, but, in spite of this, no finer gathering is to be found. [This book was originally published in 1994 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815

CALDWELL, JOHN

Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo

This work completes the three-volume catalog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's outstanding collection of American painting. Volume I focuses on an important collection of some 315 paintings by nearly 120 artists dating from the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The museum's collection features eighteenth-century portraits and history paintings by such important artists as John Smibert, Joseph Blackburn, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull. Works of art by the founders of the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, along with America's most successful genre painters, William Sidney Mount and George Caleb Bingham, are also included in this catalog. The catalog proceeds chronologically, providing a thorough discussion of each painting, a biography of the artist, bibliographical references, an exhibition history, and information on provenance.

American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1

Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez

Princeton University Press

With 412 illustrations, 99 in color.

Metropolitan Museum on Art : Distributed by Abrams

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American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection

American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection

American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815

American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1

American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection