This illustrated book - published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death - addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art.

After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

Arts & Photography

Marc Simpson

Lee Glazer

Linda Merrill

John Siewert

Sylvia Yount

Robyn Asleson

Lacey Taylor Jordan

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

The American art collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd during the 1960s and 1970s constitutes one of the great private collections of historic American painting. This book examines the collection in depth, focusing on 140 works donated to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in the years since 1979. The works reproduced include examples from America's foremost realist masters. Among them are portraits by John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale; landscapes by Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, and Martin Johnson Heade; George Caleb Bingham's extraordinary Boatmen on the Missouri; one of Edward Hick's most ambitious treatments of The Peaceable Kingdom; watercolors, drawings, and an early Civil War oil by Winslow Homer; and works by Eastman Johnson, Thomas Anshutz, John Frederick Peto, Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth. Each work is reproduced here in full color. The accompanying texts, comprised of extracts from contemporary accounts by artists, critics, patrons, and sitters, are lively and illuminating guides to understanding each work's history and significance. A detailed history of ownership and public exhibition and a selected bibliography are also provided for each painting. In many cases, this is the first time these important materials have appeared in print. The fascinating introductory essay examines the context of the Rockefellers' collecting, the directions they considered in forming the collection, their increasing sense of responsibility toward it, and factors they considered in its disposition.

The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Patricia A. Junker

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Describes the background of each work, and recounts Homer's experiences covering the war

Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War

Book by Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art.

Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine

Sally Mills

Andrea Henderson

Patricia Junker

Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute / Dist. by Yale University Press

Winslow Homer Paintings of the Civil War

Bedford Arts

Lacey T. Jordan

High Museum of Art

This book was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Diego Timken Art Gallery in 1990. An essay about the painting begins the book, followed by color plates of the painting and preparatory studies. Next are three essays: Marc Simpson's "Taken with a Cranberry Fit: Eastman Johnson on Nantucket", Sally Mill's "'Right Feeling and Sound Technique'": French Art and the Development of Eastman Johnson's Outdoor Genre Paintings", and Patricia Hill's "Afterword/Afterwards: Eastman Johnson's Transition to Portrait Painting in the Early 1880s". A chronology of Johnson's life and career, his visits to Nantucket, critical opinions of the painting from the time it was painted, and a list of Johnson family land holdings on Nantucket are also included.

Eastman Johnson: The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket

Patricia Hills

Timken Art Gallery

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