American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) - Hardcover

H. Barbara Weinberg; Carrie Rebora Barratt; Margaret C. Conrads; Bruce Robertson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300155085 ISBN 13: 9780300155082

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Focusing on some of the leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, this book addresses narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and, works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900.

About this title

About the Author:

H. Barbara Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margaret C. Conrads is Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Bruce Robertson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator at the Center for the Art of the Americas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300155085
• ISBN 13: 9780300155082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: H. Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt