The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870

Artist and prominent early American Charles Willson Peale (1741&amp;endash;1827) willed his passions to his equally remarkable children, nieces, and nephew. This engaging pictorial study reveals in-depth these two generations of artists, naturalists, and civic leaders. A combination of essays explores major historical subjects from the perspective of this exceptional family, including the impact on artists of changing political and social ideas, the nature of the family in America, and the uses and functions of art in the young nation. The book is fully illustrated with paintings by the Peales that range from portraits and historical scenes to scientific illustrations, still lifes, and full-blown expressions of Victorian sentimentality, all of which depict life during the first century of the nation's independence. Bibliography. Index.

Philadelphia Museum Of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

M.H. De Young Memorial Museum

Abbeville Pr

Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry

A lavishly photographed tour of America's hospices is based on the spring 1996 exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and includes works that portray the bond between patients and caregivers.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Little,Brown & Co

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Bulfinch Pr

Book by Parks, Gordon, Brookman, Philip

Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective

Brookman, Philip

Parks, Gordon

Photography & Video

Discusses the origins of the folk art of Black Americans and examines the paintings, sculptures, drawings, and carvings of Black folk artists

Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980

Beardsley, John

Perry, Regenia

Livingston, Jane

History & Criticism

University Press of Mississippi (Trd)

American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

La vie moderne: Nineteenth-century French art from the Corcoran Gallery

The Gallery

Manuel Neri: Early Work 1953-1978

Comprehensive volume on the leading sculptor of influential Bay Area figurative movement.

San Jose Museum Of Art

Amerson, Price

Neri, Manuel

Nothing Personal: Paintings 1987-1997 by Ida Applebroog, Arthur C. Danto, Terrie Sultan Ida Applebroog (b. 1929) has received international acclaim for the complexly psychological sensibility of her large, multi-paneled paintings. The deceptive, childlike quality of her work masks sometimes startlingly violent themes. This book, which serves as catalog to a major upcoming exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., showcases the work of the painter's productive past eleven years, and is among the most substantial collections of her art.(less)

Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997

Danto, Arthur Coleman

Allison, Dorothy

Sultan, Terrie

Applebroog, Ida

History

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Ken Aptekar: Talking to Pictures

BAL, MIEKE

Boime, Albert

Aptekar, Ken

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