Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection (Hardcover)

by Ms. Joan Carpenter Troccoli (Author) "As someone who grew up with the Anschutz Collection, I am particularly glad to have this chance to reflect on my father's art collection from..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Ranging from the 1820s to the present, these paintings from a private collection feature all of the famous Western artists, including Remington, Russell, Schreyvogel, O'Keeffe, Bierstadt, Moran, Bingham, Catlin, Miller, Farny, and many others who seldom painted Western scenes: Benton, Henri, Bellows, Hartley, Hassam, and Twachtman, among others. Occasionally a painting is juxtaposed with a stylistically similar European artwork. The collection is particularly rich in early-20th-century Taos and Santa Fe artists. Organized into portraiture, still lifes, genre painting, and landscapes, this book, with its 200 color reproductions, will enthrall art lovers. Accompanying commentary about both the paintings and the artists is lively and instructive.
Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The nemesis of paintings of the landscape and people of the American West is the documentalist state of mind that cares more about accurate rendition of physical cultural detail than about a picture's aesthetic qualities. So says Troccoli at the outset of her commentary accompanying this resplendent display of one of the greatest collections of so-called western art. She thereafter never lets us forget the painterly and stylistic qualities of the paintings she focuses on in sections devoted, respectively, to portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes. She begins by considering a very exceptional work by an artist who otherwise was rather commonplace, discussing Buffalo Dancer by Randall Davey as being far more appreciable as a fauvist-influenced color study than as a Native American document. She is very persuasive, as she continues to be throughout. The trick for most readers will be tearing their eyes away from the book's 188 superb colorplates to attend to her. Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (August 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300087225
• ISBN-13: 978-0300087222
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 10.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #701,937 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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