For America : paintings from the National Academy of Design / edited by Jeremiah William McCarthy and Diana Thompson.

This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th-century founding to the present. The nation's oldest artist honorary society has maintained a unique collecting...

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Corporate Authors: American Federation of Arts, Dayton Art Institute
Other Authors: McCarthy, Jeremiah William (Editor), Thompson, Diana (Curator) (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : American Federation of Arts, 2019.
Subjects:
National Academy of Design (U.S.) (1828-1997) > Exhibitions.
National Academy of Design (U.S.) (1828-1997)
1800-2099
Painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions.
Art.
Painting, American.
New York (State) > New York.
Exhibition catalogs.
Collection catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Collection catalogs.
Physical Description:303 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • For America : An introduction / Jeremiah William McCarthy and Diana Thompson
  • A first teacher and the resonance of miniature paintings : Samuel F. B. Morse / Susan Rather
  • A nation on display : Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, and Asher B. Durand / Elizabeth A. Spear
  • Stephen Westfall on John Frederick Kensett
  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Albert Bierstadt
  • Awakened dream : Images of reading and beholding in the work of Daniel Huntington and his contemporaries / Kenneth Haltman
  • Anthony Panzera on George Inness
  • Artistic friendship in the gilded age : William Marritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, and Henry Ossawa Tanner / Akela Reason
  • Robert Kushner on Cecilia Beaux
  • David Humphrey on William J. Whittemore
  • Illustration beside painting : Kenyon Cox and Maxfield Parrish / Jennifer A. Greenhill
  • John Moore on Maxfield Parrish
  • Place and painting on Monhegan Island : George Bellows, Robert Henri, and Reuben Tam / Kimia Shahi
  • Leslie Wayne on Ernest L. Blumenschein
  • Past and present in the 1920s : Ellen Emmet Rand / Jonathan Frederick Walz
  • Judith Shea on Ellen Emmet Rand
  • Glenn Goldberg on Peter Hurd
  • Beyond the surface : Hughie Lee-Smith / AlonaCooper Wilson
  • Self-portraiture in a time of outrage : Jane Freilicher / Alexander Nemerov
  • Barbara Grossman on Gretna Campbell
  • The subject is politics : Benny Andrews and May Stevens / Patricia Hills
  • Fred Wilson on Benny Andrews
  • Walter Chatham on Richard Estes
  • To paint a figure / Jeremiah William McCarthy
  • Catherine Opie on George Henry Hall
  • Alexi Worth on Philip Pearlstein
  • Four Americans : David Diao, Louisa Matthiasdóttir, Peter Saul, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith / Jarrett Earnest
  • Joyce Kozloff on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
  • Mira Schor on David Diao
  • Tom Burckhardt on Peter Saul
  • Catalogue and selected bibliography / Jeremiah William McCarthy with Pavla Berghen-Wolf.