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  • The Essential Paul Laffoley: Works from the Boston Visionary Cell by Laffoley, Paul
    Paul Laffoley

    The Essential Paul Laffoley: Works from the Boston Visionary Cell

    Author: Paul LaffoleyISBN-10: 022631541XISBN-13: 9780226315416Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2016Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.30lbsSize: 11.30h x 11.30w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2016Library Journal 10/01/2016 pg. 77
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  • Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman by Schreyach, Michael
    Michael Schreyach

    Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman

    An original and ambitious approach to understanding the creative achievements of one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Totality offers a deeply researched and thoughtful account of the art of Barnett Newman (1905-1970). While Newman's paintings are widely regarded as...
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  • Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow by Wilson, Laurie
    Laurie Wilson

    Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow

    In 1929, Louise Nevelson was a disappointed housewife with a young son, surrounded by New York's vibrant artistic community but unable to fully engage with it. By 1950, she was an artist living on her own, financially dependent on her family, but she had...
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  • Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism by Darwent, Charles
    Charles Darwent

    Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism

    In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known two painting milieus well ... the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1940, and the native movement that has come to be known...
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  • Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by Haggerty, S. T.
    S. T. Haggerty

    Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio

    In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...
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  • Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist by Vicario, Gilbert
    Gilbert Vicario

    Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist

    The first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades. Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of the American Southwest and California. Drawing chiefly on her own inspirations, superstitions, and beliefs, Pelton...
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  • An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation by Nanda Diamond, Anjuli
    Anjuli Nanda Diamond

    An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

    The two-volume publication reflects on the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice initiatives over the last six years, including thematic essays, roundtable discussions, and newly commissioned artworks. An Incomplete Archive of Artistic Activism is a publication in two volumes, documenting the Rubin Foundation's art...
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  • An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists' Community in the 1970s by Schäfer, Friederike
    Friederike Sch臟er

    An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists' Community in the 1970s

    This is the first book on the boundary-pushing practice of the artist, dancer, and educator Suzanne Harris (1940-1979). Harris was a protagonist in key avant-garde projects of the downtown New York City artists' community in the 1970s (the Anarchitecture group, 112 Greene Street, FOOD,...
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  • Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art by Siegel, Katy
    Katy Siegel

    Since '45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art

    Since '45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would...
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  • Greetings from the Best Coast: 32 Postcards by O'Leary, Chandler
    Chandler O'Leary

    Greetings from the Best Coast: 32 Postcards

    Celebrate the thrill of the open road and the quirkiness and beauty of California, Oregon, and Washington with this illustrated postcard set that showcases West Coast road trips. Inspired by The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas, this fun postcard book contains 32 illustrated...
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  • Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States by Sakolsky, Ron
    Ron Sakolsky

    Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States

    From its auspicious beginnings in the summer of 1966 to the present, the Chicago Surrealist Group - and the Surrealist Movement in the United States, which grew out of it - have continued to foment an exhilarating whirlwind of revolt while playfully igniting the...
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  • Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown by Shields, Scott A.
    Scott A. Shields

    Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown

    The most in-depth examination of the rich and varied careers of one of California's premier artistic couples Features previously unpublished works and new scholarship Positions the artists within the context of their peers, both in California and nationally Accompanies a major retrospective exhibition at...
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  • Seeing Rothko by Phillips, Glenn
    Glenn Phillips

    Seeing Rothko

    A collection of essays that explore the profound and varied responses elicited by Rothko's most compelling creations, plus a facsimile of Rothko's "Scribble Book" and an early sketchbook. "I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom," Mark Rothko (1903-1970) said...
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  • Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America by Lovell, Margaretta M.
    Margaretta M. Lovell

    Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America

    The impulse in much nineteenth-century American painting and culture was to describe nature as a wilderness on which the young nation might freely inscribe its future: the United States as a virgin land, that is, unploughed, unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited evidence...
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  • Rowan LeCompte: Master of Stained Glass by Swanson, Peter
    Peter Swanson

    Rowan LeCompte: Master of Stained Glass

    First book devoted to world-renowned stained-glass artist Rowan LeCompte, best known for his work in Washington National Cathedral Stunning and richly illustrated, with over 150 windows in over 50 churches and buildings throughout the US, LeCompte was one of the world's most sought-after masters...
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  • Art of Penobscot Bay by Little, Carl
    Carl Little

    Art of Penobscot Bay

    Glorious Penobscot Bay, on the coast of Maine, with its quaint mainland towns, bustling tourist centers, and island fishing villages, stands as the backdrop of daydreams. The bay's sheer beauty has attracted generation after generation of artists to its shores. For Art of Penobscot...
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  • Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960 by Sullivan, Edward J.
    Edward J. Sullivan

    Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960

    This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative...
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  • The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz: Volume 26 by Reaves, William E.
    William E. Reaves

    The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz: Volume 26

    E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz (1898-1984) could be called a "favorite son" among Texas artists working in the twentieth century. Schiwetz ranks among the state's best-known early artists, having left behind an important body of iconic Texas imagery produced over a prodigious career spanning some...
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  • The Power of Place: Defining Material Culture in Pre-1900 Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest by Bayou Bend Collection
    Bayou Bend Collection

    The Power of Place: Defining Material Culture in Pre-1900 Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest

    This publication contains the revised and expanded proceedings of the 2021 symposium. The volume begins with the keynote address by Michael Grauer, which explores the lives of a New England family who moved to Texas in the late 1800s; the essay demonstrates how that...
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  • The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever by Peiffer, Prudence
    Prudence Peiffer

    The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

    Longlisted for the National Book Award - A New York Times Notable Book of the Year - Winner of the New York City Book Award - Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award - Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography...
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  • Broken Myths: Charles Sheeler's Industrial Landscapes by Diederichs, Andrea
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    Broken Myths: Charles Sheeler's Industrial Landscapes

    Precisionism is generally regarded as an artistic style that does not indulge in social or political themes, being committed instead to aestheticism. Addressing the role of human beings under increased automation and mechanization, Andrea Diederichs includes the social dimension of the machine age in...
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  • 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic by Pendleton, Gary
    Gary Pendleton

    100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic

    This is a sumptuous catalog of regional landscape paintings and the talented, living artists who create them, including Robert J. Barber, Denise Dumont, Michael Godfrey, Hai-Ou Hou, Abigail McBride, and Sam Robinson. It is packed with over 400 eye-catching color reproductions of work by...
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  • Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life by Hollein, Max
    Max Hollein

    Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life

    This book showcases Julian Schnabel's diverse body of work from the past three decades and celebrates the scale and virtuosic materiality of his oeuvre. Julian Schnabel is one of the most important and groundbreaking artists working today. Since his breakthrough in the late 1970's,...
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  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women by Landau, Ellen G.
    Ellen G. Landau

    Abstract Expressionists: The Women

    This magnificent publication presents surveys the vital role of women in the development of Abstract Expressionism by looking at more than 50 paintings, collages, and sculptures all accompanied by carefully selected quotes from the artists themselves.The dominant movement of the New York and San...
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  • Santa Fe and Taos Paintings by Keller, Ted
    Ted Keller

    Santa Fe and Taos Paintings

    Ted Keller proudly presents his series of oil and watercolor paintings featuring Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico scenes.Author: Ted KellerISBN-10: 8811529832ISBN-13: 9798811529834Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2022Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d
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  • The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol by Murphy, J. J.
    J. J. Murphy

    The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's major visual artists, was a prolific filmmaker who made hundreds of films, many of them--Sleep, Empire, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, and Blue Movie--seminal but misunderstood contributions to the history of American cinema. In the first comprehensive...
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  • A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 by Tashjian, Dickran
    Dickran Tashjian

    A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950

    In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the Parisian movement galvanized an emerging...
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  • Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic by Brownlee, Peter John
    Peter John Brownlee

    Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic

    As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North and South American cultural identities. Picturing...
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  • The Civil War and American Art by Harvey, Eleanor Jones
    Eleanor Jones Harvey

    The Civil War and American Art

    A sweeping survey of the impact of the Civil War on American painting and photography in the 19th century The Civil War redefined America and forever changed American art. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists...
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  • William Merritt Chase, Volume 2: Portraits in Oil by Pisano, Ronald G.
    Ronald G. Pisano

    William Merritt Chase, Volume 2: Portraits in Oil

    The great American artist William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) completed a wide variety of portraits over his long career. Among his subjects were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, New York luminaries, and members of his family as well as a number of self-portraits. Chase's ability to capture...
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  • William Merritt Chase: The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints by Pisano, Ronald G.
    Ronald G. Pisano

    William Merritt Chase: The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints

    The first in a beautiful four-volume complete catalogue of all known works by the beloved American artist William Merritt Chase A perennial favorite of museum visitors, the works of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) embody the quintessential characteristics of American Impressionism: outdoor landscapes, a colorful...
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  • Quilts and Health by MacDowell, Marsha
    Marsha MacDowell

    Quilts and Health

    Name an illness, medical condition, or disease and you will find quiltmaking associated with it. From Alzheimer's to Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lou Gehrig's Disease to Crigler-Najjar Syndrome, and for nearly every form of cancer, millions of quilts have been made in support of personal...
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  • The Art of George Ames Aldrich by Greenhouse, Wendy
    Wendy Greenhouse

    The Art of George Ames Aldrich

    A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects...
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  • Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe by Patterson, Karen
    Karen Patterson

    Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

    Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and...
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  • Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Cooke, Lynne
    Lynne Cooke

    Outliers and American Vanguard Art

    Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has been fascinated by outliers whom...
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  • Truly Mindful Coloring by Marks-Tarlow, Terry
    Terry Marks-Tarlow

    Truly Mindful Coloring

    Color out the stress.Color in the calm, focus, and curiosity . . .Unique from other adult coloring books, this activity & coloring book is grounded in science and decades of clinical experience, and contains mindfulness exercises and imagery designed to reduce stress, find peace...
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  • George Catlin's American Buffalo by Harris, Adam Duncan
    Adam Duncan Harris

    George Catlin's American Buffalo

    Presenting forty major oil paintings by George Catlin from the mid-late 1830s, this volume re-examines the legacy of this complex artist. Many of Catlin's paintings were produced following his 1832 expedition down the Missouri River, past the prairie lands of Oklahoma, where he witnessed...
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  • First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps by Craig, David Cobb
    David Cobb Craig

    First Class: America's Marvelous Midcentury Stamps

    Every picture tells a story--even one on a postage stamp. Presented enormously enlarged, the 128 stamps in this book chronicle a stylish era of design: mid-20th-century America. Spanning the late 1950s to the early 1970s, these mini-masterpieces were created when the US post office...
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  • Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio by Haggerty, S. T.
    S. T. Haggerty

    Norman Rockwell's Models: In and Out of the Studio

    In 1940, America's favorite illustrator Norman Rockwell, his wife Mary, and their three sons moved to the picturesque rural village of West Arlington, Vermont. The artist discovered a treasure trove of models. Norman Rockwell's Models: In and out of the Studio is the first...
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  • Peter Saul: Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sammlung Falckenberg/Deichtorhallen Hamburg by Saul, Peter
    Peter Saul

    Peter Saul: Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Sammlung Falckenberg/Deichtorhallen Hamburg

    I prefer a doomsday mood and I love to laugh at bad news«It was arguably during the 1960s that painting got caught up in the loop of permanent rehash and constant transformation, which--in contrast to the hypothesis of progress--forms the working principle of postmodernism....
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  • Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 by Rachleff, Melissa
    Melissa Rachleff

    Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965

    This enlightening and thought-provoking look at New York City's postwar art scene focuses on the galleries and the artists that helped transform American art. While the achievements of New York City's most renowned postwar artists--de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Franz Kline-- have been studied in...
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  • James Howell by Rider, Alistair
    Alistair Rider

    James Howell

    First monograph on a leading American Minimalist artist whose career is undergoing critical re-evaluationJames Howell (1935-2014) was an American abstract artist who used infinite variations of the color gray to explore the fundamentals of light, space, time, and [kinesthetic] perception. He appreciated the color's...
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  • Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum by Sherry, Karen A.
    Karen A. Sherry

    Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum

    The first survey of the Brooklyn Museum's world-class collection of drawings, Fine Lines highlights more than one hundred masterworks by some of the most important names in American art from the last three centuries. Among more than seventy artists included are John Singleton Copley,...
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  • The Purple Blanket by Owings, Cindy
    Cindy Owings

    The Purple Blanket

    From Montana, steeped in cowboy outdoor culture, comes the story of one woman's struggle to realize her dream of creating colorful, whimsical wool coats. Cindy Owings' story is not one of rags to riches but one of determination and stamina in the face of...
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  • Eighty Drawings: Including the Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor by Gibson, Charles Dana
    Charles Dana Gibson

    Eighty Drawings: Including the Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor

    American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) found enduring fame as the creator of the Gibson Girl -- the beautiful, independent, and socially confident young woman who embodied the spirit of a new era at the turn of the twentieth century. This affordable volume...
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  • Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York by Langa, Helen
    Helen Langa

    Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

    During the 1930s, the era of the Depression and the New Deal, American artists transformed printmaking into one of the decade's most exciting forms of art. As a cheap, vital, and egalitarian means of artistic expression, prints came close to realizing the ideal of...
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  • C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond by Kraft, Daniel
    Daniel Kraft

    C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond

    C. Curry Bohm was a talented and highly regarded landscape artist who is most commonly associated with Brown County, Indiana. Most consider him a leader of the second generation of Brown County painters. However, Curry's career and success expanded well beyond the borders of...
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  • Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes--Late Works 1985-2015 by Rooks, Michael
    Michael Rooks

    Grand Allusions: Robert Barnes--Late Works 1985-2015

    Robert Barnes has been called the "most famous unknown painter in America." Picking up where his 1985 mid-career retrospective left off, this gorgeous catalog surveys Barnes's work from the past 30 years. Often identified as a Chicago School artist because of his training at...
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  • Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California by Van Hoy, Justin
    Justin Van Hoy

    Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California

    Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California highlights new work by contemporary artists who are aesthetically and regionally joined through a variety of mediums and demographics. By showcasing unknown and emerging artists alongside established icons who all call California home, Milk and Honey recognizes...
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  • American Made: Paintings & Sculpture from the Demell Jacobsen Collection by Heuer, Elizabeth B.
    Elizabeth B. Heuer

    American Made: Paintings & Sculpture from the Demell Jacobsen Collection

    A fascinating survey of exceptional American painting and sculpture from the late 18th century to the present day.The DeMell Jacobsen Collection of paintings and sculpture--an assemblage rich in American cultural heritage--parallels the development of art in the United States. American Made features some of...
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