American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum [Hardcover]

Ms. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (Author), Amy Ellis (Contributor), Elizabeth R. McClintock (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0300066716 | ISBN-13: 978-0300066715

The history of the Wadsworth Atheneum is told in this two-volume set. It includes biographies of both famous and obscure artists whose work is in the museum along with entries on each painting. The story of the 19th-century private collectors who established the public collections is told.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

An underappreciated gem, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, is the oldest continuously operating art museum in the United States. The institution was originally founded to house the painting collection of the eccentric American rentier and art patron Daniel Wadsworth (1771-1848), and the American paintings still form the museum's core. Atheneum curator Kornhauser's two-volume set is a meticulously compiled catalogue raisonne of these works. Emerging from a vast amount of mediocrity are some splendid canvases by such Hudson River School painters as Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Albert Bierstadt, as well as works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Henry O. Tanner, and John Singer Sargent. The best examples are handsomely illustrated in color, and all pieces?wheat and chaff alike?come with thorough and at times quite interesting annotations and biographical sketches. Art scholarship of the highest quality, this is nonetheless esoteric enough to demand a place only in larger academic collections.?Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 904 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (January 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300066716
• ISBN-13: 978-0300066715
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.4 x 2.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 pounds
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