Telling the story of two independent women who created a premier collection of American art for their Midwestern hometown, this volume also provides commentary and handsome illustrations for the first national tour of American masterworks from the Wichita Art Museum. The exhibition and this catalogue focus upon the period of 1900-1950 when the nation's artists and critics sought to define what was "American" in American art. Among the artists featured in the collection are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Birchfield, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Ralston Crawford, John Steuart Curry, Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Thomas Eakins, William Glackens, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Kane, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, George Luks, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Horace Pippin, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan, Mark Tobey, John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, Guy Carleton Wiggins, and others.

Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum

Wichita Art Museum

Ross, Novelene

Cateforis, David

Mississippi Museum of Art

Western art of America's frontier years, from about 1825 to 1925, has traditionally been perceived as the art most representative of the country's cultural and historical essence. European American explorers were accompanied or soon followed by adventuresome artists whose drawings and paintings provided the first glimpses that eastern audiences had of this vast region and captured both its romantic allure and its commercial possibilities. The artists-Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas Moran, Fanny R. Palmer, Frederick Remington, Charles M. Russell, and John Mix Stanley, amoong others-presented a fabulous vision of the West that was at once Edenic and bountiful as well as dangerous and forbidding.
 Since the 1980s, much of western history and art has been reevaluated. Its rosy ambience has been tinged with allegations of sexism, ethnocentrism, imperialism, and economic exploitation. The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality explores some of these new insights and perspectives and seeks to reconcile these with entrenched myth.

The American West: Out of Myth, into Reality

Arts & Photography

Hassrick, Peter H.

History & Criticism

Trust for Museum Exhibition

This monograph is the first to fully survey nearly three decades of work by this native of Jackson, MS, who is now based in Berkeley, CA.

Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Barilleaux, Rene Paul

Driskell, David C.

O'Neal, Mary Lovelace

Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee is published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition of the same title organized by René Paul Barilleaux and Roland L. Freeman, assisted by Robin C. Dietrick, originating at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, November 20, 2004 – January 30, 2005. 
1. Magee, Gwendolyn A., 1943---Exhibitions. 2. African American quilts –Mississippi—Exhibitions. 3. Quilts—Mississippi—History—20th century—Exhibitions. I. Barilleaux, Rene Paul. II. Benberry, Cuesta. II. Freeman, Roland L., 1936- IV. Mississippi Museum of Art. V. Title.

Journey Of The Spirit: The Art Of Gwendolyn A. Magee

Religion & Spirituality

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