The Ebsworth Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art

A National Gallery of Art Publication

This book, the companion volume to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Seattle Art Museum, showcases the extraordinary collection of modern American masterworks assembled by Barney A. Ebsworth, a St. Louis businessman.

The collection includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as Patrick Henry Bruce, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Charles Sheeler, and Wayne Thiebaud.

With more than 135 illustrations and an illuminating essay by distinguished art historian Bruce Robinson, this book will be a revelation to anyone who loves 20th-century American art.

170 illustrations, 82 in full color, 9 5/8 x 11 1/4"

BRUCE ROBERTSON is a professor in the department of the history of art and architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Mar. 5-June 11, 2000
Seattle Art Museum Aug. 10-Nov. 12, 2000