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Title Sargent, Whistler & Venetian glass : American artists and the magic of Murano / edited by Crawford Alexander Mann III ; with contributions by Sheldon Barr, Melody Barnett Deusner, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Crawford Alexander Mann III, Brittany Emens Strupp.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; Princeton : in association with Princeton University Press, [2021]
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 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  748.0945 SAR    DUE 04-09-24
Description 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Note "Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, October 8, 2021 to May 8, 2022. Also traveling to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, June 25 to September 11, 2022; and the Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy, October 15, 2022 to January 8, 2023"-- Colophon. Italian venue replaced by exhibition at Mystic Seaport Museum, October 15, 2022-February 27, 2023.
Summary "Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. This exhibition catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the American Grand Tour to Venice in the late nineteenth century, revealing the glass furnaces and their new creative boom as a vibrant facet of the city's allure. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue features paintings and prints by John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Prendergast, Maxfield Parrish, Louise Cox, and Ellen Day Hale alongside rarely seen Venetian glass mosaic portraits and glass cups, vases, and urns by the leading Murano glassmakers. Reuniting these exquisitely crafted objects with paintings, etchings, and drawings from the same milieu, this catalogue recovers and explains their past significance. Five new essays from experts in the history of American art and of Venetian glass provide the first combined survey of fine and decorative arts from the Venetian Grand Tour, offering a unique and valuable contribution to the fields of American Art and nineteenth-century cultural history. Ultimately, this project demonstrates the lasting impact of the nineteenth-century Venetian glass revival on American art, literature, and education, as well as period concepts of gender and social class."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lenders to the exhibition -- Welcome / Armando Varricchio -- Director's foreword / Stephanie Stebich -- Introduction / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Murano Glass and its Collectors in Aesthetic America / Melody Barnett Deusner -- Venetian Mosaics and Glass in the United States, 1860-1917 / Sheldon Barr -- "Where Have Titian's Beauties Gone?" : Sargent and Whistler on the Streets of Venice / Stephanie Mayer Heydt -- Interweaving Worlds : Antique and Revival Lace in Italy and in the United States, 1872-1927 / Diana Jocelyn Greenwold -- Sparks of Genius : American Art and the Appeal of Modern Venetian Glass / Crawford Alexander Mann III -- Biographies / Brittany Emens Strupp, Crawford Alexander Mann III.
Language Text in English.
Subject Glass art -- Italy -- Murano -- Exhibitions.
Lace and lace making -- Italy -- Burano -- Exhibitions.
Aesthetics, American -- Exhibitions.
Glass art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Exhibitions.
Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Painting, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Venice (Italy) -- In art -- Exhibitions.
Painting, American. (OCoLC)fst01050648
Lace and lace making. (OCoLC)fst00990497
Glass art -- Collectors and collecting. (OCoLC)fst00943069
Glass art. (OCoLC)fst00943068
Aesthetics, American. (OCoLC)fst00798740
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Italy -- Venice. (OCoLC)fst01204473
Italy -- Murano. (OCoLC)fst01212386
Italy -- Burano. (OCoLC)fst01212385
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Mann, Crawford Alexander, III, editor.
Container of (work): Mann, Crawford Alexander, III. Sparks of Genius.
Container of (work): Barr, Sheldon, 1938- Venetian mosaics and glass in the United States, 1860-1917.
Container of (work): Deusner, Melody Barnett. Murano glass and its collectors in aesthetic America.
Container of (work): Greenwold, Diana. Interweaving worlds.
Container of (work): Heydt, Stephanie Mayer. Where have Titian's beauties gone?
Smithsonian American Art Museum, publisher, host institution.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution.
Museo d'arte moderna Ca' Pesaro, host institution.
Mystic Seaport Museum, host institution.
Added Title Sargent, Whistler and Venetian glass
ISBN 9780691222677 (hardcover)
0691222673 (hardcover)
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