An Exhibition Organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Author: Frederic Edwin Church
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 85
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Author: Frederic Edwin Church
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 85
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eleanor Jones Harvey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 0691200807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
Author: Sheldon Barr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0691222673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMurano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.
Author: Frederick Edwin Church
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 85
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Public Works of Art Program, created in 1934 against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar
Author: Mary Savig
Publisher: Giles
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781913875268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA highly illustrated,important volume inspired by the way craft artists have unitedduring the COVID pandemic and engaged in artistic conversations about race,gender, and inclusivity. During thesummer of 2020, the space outside the Renwick Gallery--the Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum's dedicated museum for contemporary craft and decorative arts--becamehome to a new discussion about racial justice on Black Lives Matter Plaza. Thecurators at the Renwick Gallery felt the need to align themselves with what wasgoing on right outside the Gallery's door, the organizing rationale forunderstanding the objects presented in this volume, many of which are newacquisitions. The title istaken from Alicia Eggert's 2019-2020 eponymous neon work, and the 85 objects inthe main plates section lead the reader from the idea of shelter, throughlayers of expanding spaces to the vast expanses of the universe. The volume looksat contemporary American craft "in the whirlwind of now" revealingpossibilities for contemporary makers to respond to a more empathetic future.
Author: National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.)
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Smithsonian Institution (WASHINGTON, D.C.). National Gallery of Art 1906-1937, afterwards National Collection of Fine Arts
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 79
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cooper Union museum for the arts of decoration (N.Y.)
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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