Return to the Ashcan is the catalog that accompanied the 2013- 2013 show of the same name at the Museum of Art, Nova University. The essay by Carol Troyen offers a history of the Ashcan School. Artists featured in the exhibition and catalog include George Bellows, Guy Pene Du Bois, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, Jerome Myers, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan.

Return to the Ashcan

Carol Troyen

Museum of Art, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale

A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting [Balding + Mansell Limited for Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1983] pp. 352, 110 color reproductions of the paintings.

A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting

Theordore E. Stebbins Jr.

Trevor J. Fairbrother

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a diverse and authentic vernacular expression. American Folk presents over 60 remarkable objects from one of the country's most prominent collections of folk art, many of them never before published. Included are paintings, carvings, textiles, prints, frakturs, furniture, and utilitarian objects, dating from the late 18th to the early 20th century. They include such masterpieces as Erastus Salisbury Field's lush The Garden of Eden, E.L. George's surrealistic Child in a Rocking Chair, a complex, monumental quilt by the former slave Harriet Powers, and Wilhelm Schimmel's extraordinary carved animals--as well as a remarkable assortment of whirligigs, windmills, decorated chests, figurines, and even carousel animals. The introductory essay by curator Gerald W.R. Ward discusses the elusive notion of ''folk art'' itself and presents the history of its acquisition by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the MFA, American Folk is a vibrant and engaging introduction to one of our proudest cultural traditions.

American Folk

Arts & Photography

Sue Welsh Reed

Pamela A. Parmal

Gerald W.R. Ward

Abaigeal Duda

Gilian Ford Shallcross

History & Criticism

MFA Publications

In this volume that accompanies a large traveling exhibition, Troyen (curator of paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Barter (American art, Art Institute of Chicago) couple approximately 150 works by 20th-century American painter Edward Hopper (particularly emphasizing paintings from the 1920s and 40s) with nine essays discussing his life, work, context, and influence. The chronologically arranged prints display his mastery of and devotion to realism through the era of Abstract Expressionism, and text discusses topics such as his absorption of European influences, critical reactions to his work, his fascination with architecture, and his struggle in his last years to produce original works. Oversize: 10.5x11". Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edward Hopper

Biographies & Memoirs

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