"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
"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 ..."
" 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 ..."
"This 160 page oversize book, 9" x 11" is devoted to the art of the United States of America and represents the scope of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings while selectively presenting the finest objects from each of its curatorial departments. The book presents: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, furniture, costumes arms and armory. The objects selected for the book represent a small portion of the Museum's collection ..."
"... After the Hunt (1 953 ; rev. ed. 1969), p. 164, includes it as no. 18, The Banker's
Table, in a catalogue of the artist's work, describes it in detail and dates it 1877 //
A. T. Gardner, MMA Bull. 22 (Jan. 1964), p. 158, discusses it; ill. p. 159.
EXHIBITED: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, 1967, The New 1' ork
Painter (a benefit exhibition for the New York University Art Collection), ill. p. 34; p
. 87, lists it. Ex Co1_.1 ..."
"Great exhibition catalog from Yale University Gallery of Art featuring the work of American artist and painter John Trumbull. 170 mostly black and white illustrations (20 color illustrations) of works of art by Trumbull. Portraits, figures, studies, sketches, drawings, paintings, landscapes, historic subjects, battle scenes and other works. Includes notes / bibliography. Softcover. 292 pages. Measures 8 3/4 by 11 3/4 inches. Interesting ..."
"... in Athens) first displayed in London 1812 Napoleon invades Russia 1813 Jane
Austcn's Pride and Prejudice 1814 Ft-atiz Peter Schubert publishes first -lieder I
1814 Congress of Vienna plans post-Napoleonic Europe ll 1814 Francisco
Goya's Third ... Venice 1837 Queen Victoriai ascends throne of England 1838 (
ilturles Dickens's Oliver Twist 1839 Daguerreotype process of photography
developed I840-64 Houses of Parliament rebuilt by ..."
"This twelve-volume series for the general reader reproduces works of art representing the resources of all eighteen curatorial departments of the Museum."
"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. T ..."
"160pages. in4. Relié. llustré de nombreuses reproductions en couleur dans et hors texte. Avec cartes en couleur sur 2 planches dépliables en fin d'ouvrage. Couverture recouverte d'une feuille plastique transparente et autocollante. Etiquettes de code en coiffe de pied et sur le 1er plat. Intro. de Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque. Adapt. Fra. de Paul Cox. Salle Wentworth. Matthew Pratt. Salle Verplanck. Gilbert Stuart. John Vanderlyn. Frederic E ..."