{"product_id":"variations-on-america-george-gurney-9781904832423","title":"Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections","description":"This volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the American Art Forum, by presenting 72 treasured works of art selected by the curators of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn six thematic and chronological sections, the curators cover the huge variety of American art: luminous images of nature from the mid-nineteenth century, such as Martin Johnson Heade's \u003ci\u003eNewburyport Meadows I\u003c\/i\u003e, and fine landscape masterpieces in the Hudson River tradition, including Sanford Robinson Gifford's \u003ci\u003eThe Marshes of the Hudson \u003c\/i\u003e(1876); light-filled impressionist canvases, such as Mary Cassatt's \u003ci\u003eReading \"Le Figaro\" \u003c\/i\u003e(1878); dazzling Gilded Age glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and paintings by John Singer Sargent; gritty Ashcan records from a dynamic New York City, such as George Bellows's \u003ci\u003eNoon \u003c\/i\u003e(1908); vivid aesthetic creations of the modern age; the triumphant abstract expressionism of Willem de Kooning; and resonant contemporary works by Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book also showcases major canvases by Georgia O'Keefe, such as \u003ci\u003eBlack Cross with Red Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (1929), John Marin's \u003ci\u003eTaos Canyon, New Mexico \u003c\/i\u003e(1929), Cyrus Edwin Dallin's major statue \u003ci\u003eAppeal to the Great Spirit \u003c\/i\u003eand James Earl Fraser's emotive bronze sculpture \u003ci\u003eEnd of the Trail \u003c\/i\u003e(1918).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Gurney,Eleanor Jones Harvey,Virginia M. Mecklenburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1904832423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781904832423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Giles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.82h x 10.68w x 0.89d","brand":"George Gurney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450041413887,"sku":"9781904832423","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79a93f5c-8ac2-4873-aa1b-2d5e370c1cb4.jpg?v=1777265970","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/variations-on-america-george-gurney-9781904832423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}