At the turn of the twentieth century, the celebrated American artist William Merritt Chase named Cecilia Beaux not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.” While Beauxunlike her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatthas not fared well in modernist-driven art history, her work has become the subject of renewed interest on the part of art historians, collectors, and general viewers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her forty-year career represents a compelling and under-examined chapter in the history of American art. Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter is the most comprehensive appraisal of Beaux’s talent in more than three decades. This handsomely illustrated book presents a range of the artist’s strongest work and offers a fresh understanding of her career by examining critical questions of gender, class, and the importance of place. It features substantive essays which examine Beaux’s participation in the international portrait market of the 1890s, explore the artist’s professional identity and changing fortunes through a close reading of key images, investigate Beaux’s sensitivity to the framing and display of her work. An illustrated chronology of Beaux’s life and work, compiled by Alison Bechtel Wexler, completes the study. Copub: High Museum

Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter

Arts & Photography

AUERBACH, Nina

Yount, Sylvia

Sharp, Kevin

Bockrath, Mark

History & Criticism

University of California Press

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and other institutions, June 19,1999-August 6, 2000. An extensive look at the life and career of Maxfield Parrish, with an essay by Mark F. Bockrath on the physical construction of the artist's paintings and his unique techniques. "A reexamination of one of the most unique, compelling, and problematic figures in the history of American art." With 132 illustrations, including 81 plates in full color. 160 pages. cloth, dust jacket. small 4to..

Maxfield Parrish: 1870-1966

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N. Abrams

Maxfield Parrish was one of the most popular American artists of the 20th century. His engaging covers for Scribners and Life, murals such as Old King Cole and the Pied Piper, and posters, calendars, and paintings have delighted viewers for over 100 years. This is the first critical examination of Parrish's place in the history of American art and culture.

Individual Artists

With this publication, produced in conjunction with the largest expansion in the history of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the full scope of the museum's outstanding American art collection is represented for the first time. Following an introduction tracing the history of American art at this encyclopedic museum--a state-supported, privately endowed institution--readers will discover lively and generously illustrated essays about selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by many of America's leading artists: John James Audubon, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, John Singleton Copley, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Willson Peale, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, William Wetmore Story, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James McNeill Whistler. Also included are decorative objects by well-known artisans and firms, such as John Henry Belter, the Goddard-Townsend group, Herter Brothers, Paul Revere, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Organized in chronological sections ranging from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, this long-awaited book examines a noteworthy collection through a variety of interpretive lenses--aesthetic and cultural--for the benefit of a broad readership. Published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with the University of Virginia Press.

American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Curry, David Park

O'Leary, Elizabeth

Rawles, Susan J.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / University of Virginia Press

"We have spent the last decade immersed in the world of American art, never suspecting early on that our desire to learn and appreciate this legacy could result in so meaningful a commitment to Virginia."―James W. McGlothlin
Private Passion, Public Promise: The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art commemorates the McGlothlins’ plan to bequeath their splendid collection of American art to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Featuring such artists as George Wesley Bellows, Robert Blum, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, George Luks, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler, this handsome catalogue is a fitting tribute celebrating the opening of the VMFA’s historic expansion, and the treasures to be found in the James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing.
Distributed for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Private Passion, Public Promise: The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

To Be Modern: American Encounters with Cezanne and Company

Johns, Elizabeth

University of Pennsylvania Press

Table of contents, acknowledgments, forewords by Serena Rattazzi and Daniel Rosenfeld, endnotes, exhibition checklist, index, photographic credits.. Catalogue of an exhibition of Parrrish's works 1999-2000. Color illustrations throughout. 160 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 4to..

Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966

PARRISH, Maxfield

Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine

This timely study of Winslow Homer highlights his imagery of the Atlantic world and reveals themes of racial, political, and natural conflict across his career\nLong celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. Among these, The Gulf Stream (1899), often considered the most consequential painting of his career, reveals Homer’s lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. Recognizing the artist’s keen ability to distill complex issues, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular conceptions and convincingly argues that Homer’s work resonates with the challenges of the present day.\nPublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press\nExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
(April 11–July 31, 2022)\nNational Gallery, London 
(September 10, 2022–January 8, 2023)

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

Herdrich, Stephanie L.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

A midcareer figurative painter with a distinctive and haunting narrative vision, Bo Bartlett composes large-scale contemporary portraits and landscapes that combine the memories and impressions of his upbringing, his faith, his family, and his friends. Presenting iconic American subjects subtly underlined with open-ended questions, Bartlett implies that there is a chance for magic and wonder in everyday life. In paintings titled Old Glory, Self Portrait on Wheaton, Hiroshima, The Good Old Days, A Place by the Ocean, Partisan, and The Dowry, he offers both a straightforward narrative and the possibility for more complex interpretations and responses. This volume is the first monograph on the artist.

Bo Bartlett (MARQUAND BOOKS)

Harris-Fernandez, Al

Marquand Books, Inc.

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