American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in Williams College Museum of Art - Hardcover

Mathews, Nancy Mowll; Et Al

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555952100 ISBN 13: 9781555952105

Publisher: Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

Williams College (estab. in 1793, Williamstown, MA) Museum holds an exceptional collection of American art, filled with masterpieces by major artists as well as such special treasures as large holdings of work by Thomas Nast, Rube Goldberg, and Charles and Maurice Prendergast.

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Synopsis:

The Williams College Museum of Art (the College itself was established in 1793 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) houses an important collection of paintings and drawings, watercolours, sculptures, photographs, prints, posters and decorative arts. It also houses unparalleled holdings of the work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, the 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas Nast and cartoonist Rube Goldberg. This eclectic volume features colour plates with essays about painting and sculpture by: American old masters Copley, West, Homer, Harnett, Peto, Whistler, Eakins, Twachtman and Bellows; early modernists Weber, Demuth, Hartley, Stella, Marin, O'Keefe, Feininger and Shahn; modern masters Hofmann, Hopper, Avery, Lawrence and Cadmus; colonial furniture from Kiowa Indian drawings; and the photography of Man Ray.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1555952100
• ISBN 13: 9781555952105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240