Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department
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Category : Etching
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Exhibition of the Work of the Women Etchers of America
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etching
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
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Category : Etching
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Catalogue of the Work of the Women Etchers of America, on Exhibition April 12th to 21st ...
Author: Union League Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Exhibition of the Work of the Women Etchers of America
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Print Department
Publisher:
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Category : Etching
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etching
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Catalogue of the Work of the Women Etchers of America
Author: New York (N.Y.). Union League Club
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Category : Etching, American
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : Etching, American
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The First Smithsonian Collection
Author: Helena E. Wright
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 193562363X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015 Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016 In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution, it was also the first public print collection in the nation, and it presented an important symbol of cultural authority. The prints formed part of the library of Vermont Congressman George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), a member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents. The uncertainty of the Smithsonian's mission in the early years complicated its motivation for purchasing the collection, especially given Marsh’s position as a Regent in financial difficulty. After a serious fire in 1865, portions of the collection were deposited at the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Efforts to reclaim it began in the 1880s, as a new generation of Smithsonian staff expanded the National Museum, but they achieved only mixed success. Through the story of the Marsh Collection, the book explores the cultural values attributed to prints in the 19th century, including their prominent role in expositions and their influence on visual culture at a time when collecting styles were moving from an individual’s private contemplation of artworks to wider public venues of exposition in museums and reception by multiple audiences. The history of this first Smithsonian collection enlivens an important stage in the development of American cultural identity and in the formation of the Smithsonian as a national institution.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 193562363X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015 Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016 In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution, it was also the first public print collection in the nation, and it presented an important symbol of cultural authority. The prints formed part of the library of Vermont Congressman George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882), a member of the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents. The uncertainty of the Smithsonian's mission in the early years complicated its motivation for purchasing the collection, especially given Marsh’s position as a Regent in financial difficulty. After a serious fire in 1865, portions of the collection were deposited at the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Efforts to reclaim it began in the 1880s, as a new generation of Smithsonian staff expanded the National Museum, but they achieved only mixed success. Through the story of the Marsh Collection, the book explores the cultural values attributed to prints in the 19th century, including their prominent role in expositions and their influence on visual culture at a time when collecting styles were moving from an individual’s private contemplation of artworks to wider public venues of exposition in museums and reception by multiple audiences. The history of this first Smithsonian collection enlivens an important stage in the development of American cultural identity and in the formation of the Smithsonian as a national institution.
Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Bulletin
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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American Art to 1900
Author: Sarah Burns
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943821
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
Book Description
From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943821
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
Book Description
From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON THE FINE ARTS
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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