A lavish presentation of this fine Milwaukee collection. Two hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture. Each entry includes all known information about the particular object's history, cost, design sources, regional origin and unique qualities, as well as a photograph of the piece and a description of its salient construction features. Complimenting this rich catalogue are two essays. The first summarizes stylistic developments in the period 1680-1820 and seeks to place the Stone collection in historical perspective. The second, by Stanley Stone himself, discusses a personal approach to collecting that mixes obvious aesthetic joy and keen judgment—two qualities everywhere evident in this remarkable collection.

American Furniture at Chipstone

Arts & Photography

Rodriguez Roque, Oswaldo

Decorative Arts & Design

University of Wisconsin Press

American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commitment to American art goes back to its origins, when one of the main reasons for creating the Museum was to provide the city and the nation with an institution that would attract and instruct American artists, as well as acquire their works. Leaders in the New York art world of the 1860s and 1870s were principally landscape painters, many of whom were instrumental in founding the Metropolitan. Among them were John F. Kensett and Frederic E. Church, both prominently represented in this exhibition and publication, and both on the roster of the Museum's first Board of Trustees, elected on 31 January 1870. Kensett served on the influential Executive Committee until his death three years later; the memorial display in 1874 of thirty-eight of his paintings—referred to as the Last Summer's Work—along with three pictures by Thomas Cole, was the first special exhibition mounted at the Metropolitan. Worthington Whittredge and Sanford Gifford, who are also represented in the exhibition and catalogue, were among those deeply involved in the early life of this institution. In 1881, when the Museum organized its first monographic retrospective, it was of Gifford's work. Issued concurrently was A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., the first of a long line of scholarly books and catalogues published by the Metropolitan.American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School is a large undertaking of the Metropolitan's Departments of American Art, and is an integral part of its program to exhibit and explain the best art of our country. Previous to 1987, the Museum mounted major retrospectives of the work of Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, and Winslow Homer, among others. This exhibition and its accompanying book were conceived as a presentation of the art of the Hudson River School and a summary of the most up-to-date scholarship on the School itself. The organizers and authors brought together a number of the finest and most historically important pictures of the School, thereby offering a broad and even-handed survey of thought and critical comment on the artists and their works. Because of the tremendous surge of interest in the Hudson River School (traceable in large part to Paintings of the Hudson River School, the Museum's small but pioneering exhibition held in 1917; to The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, the exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945; and to the publication in 1949 of M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and the consequent recognition of it as the first pivotal art movement in this nation's history, the time was propitious to present to specialists and the general public alike these indisputable masterpieces. [This book was originally published in 1987 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Avery, Kevin J.

Burke, Doreen Bolger

Howat, John K.

Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover

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

Johnson, Dale T.

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