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19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN ART
Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter
Featuring essays by Paul Manoguerra, curator of American Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, and Janice Simon, professor of art history at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Painting and the Italian Encounter accompanies the exhibition of the same title. The exhibition brings together a group of paintings by American artists as a result of their mid-nineteenth-century Italian travels on the "Grand Tour." Thomas Cole, Martin Johnson Heade, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and other American painters created a body of work featuring Italian landscapes, people, buildings, and life. Classic Ground situates American paintings, with Italian subject matter, in the context of mid-nineteenth-century politics, gender, ideology, religion, and popular culture.
Exhibition dates: October 23, 2004-January 2, 2005
Author: Paul A. Manoguerra, with an essay by Janice Simon
ISBN: 0-915977-54-0; $25
Published: October 2004
George Cooke (1793-1849)
George Cooke, a popular 19th-century portraitist and landscape painter, also painted historical subjects and copies of Old Master paintings. This first retrospective exhibition and catalogue of his works includes more than 30 portraits, historical scenes, landscapes, prints, and drawings. This publication won the LoPresti/Arliss Award for scholarly research.
Exhibition dates: February 2-March 10, 1991
General Editor: Donald D. Keyes
Essays by Donald D. Keyes; Linda Crocker Simmons; Estill Curtis Pennington; William Nathaniel Banks
104 p.; Illustrated (including 10 color plates); Essays: 4; Published: 1991; $25.00
ISBN: 0-915977-07-9
This catalogue is available for loan from the Louis T. Griffith Teacher Resource Center.
Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings
This catalogue examines the life and work of such prominent American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin West, and Charles Burchfield, and many others, in the context of works on paper. The works featured in the catalogue were created in such media as silver point, gouache, charcoal, ink, and watercolor, and demonstrate the range of moods and textures inherent in works on paper, as well as a feeling of spontaneity and immediacy. The essays also examine the collection as a whole, discussing the range of styles and genres.
Exhibition dates: December 6, 1997-February 1, 1998
General Editor: Donald D. Keyes
Essays by Henry Adams; Douglas Dreishpoon
84 p.; Illustrated (includes 22 color plates); Essays: 2; Published: 1998; $30.00
ISBN 0-915977-28-1