| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
127 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
American Masterpieces arranged alphabetically by artist from Albers to Wyeth -- Albers Study for Homage to the square -- Audubon Arctic Tern -- Baziotes White Bird o Primeval landscape -- Bierstadt Yosemite Valley -- Bingham fur tTraders dDescending the Missouri -- Cassatt girl arranging her hair o Mother about to wash her sleepy child -- Church cotopaxi -- Cole ccene From the last of the Mohicans o Notch of the White Mountains -- Copley three youngest daughters of George III o Watson and the shark -- Davis Odol o Composition concrete -- De Kooning rosy-fFingered dawn at Louse Point o Visit -- Demuth I saw the figure 5 in gold o Egypt -- Diebenkorn Ocean Park, No. 136 o Urbana -- Batchelors, eeno Nude descending a staircase, No. 2 -- Eakins Biglin brothers racing o Gross clinic -- Feininger market church at evening o Sailing boats -- Francis red and pink o Around the blues -- Frankenthaler mountains and sea o Bride's door -- Gorky hugging/good hope road II (Pastoral) o Artist and his mother -- Gottlieb sscent o Romanesque faȧde -- Guston Black Sea o Native's return -- Hicks peaceable kingdom o Cornell farm -- Hockney a bigger splash o Divine o Homer snap the whip o Turtle pound -- Hopper early Sunday morning o Second story sunlight -- Inness Lackawanna Valley o June -- Johns White Flag o O Through 9 -- Katz Varick o Ada and Alex -- Kelly rebound o Red curve IV -- Kline: Mahoning -- Krasner Polar stampede o Rising green -- Lichtenstein maybe (A Girl's Picture -- Louis Gamma Epsilon o Tet -- Mangold four color frame painting No. 1 o Red X within X -- Marden Humiliatio o Corpus -- Martin leaf in the wind o Untitled No. 3 -- Motherwell untitled (Elegy) o Drunk With turpentine No. 38 -- Natkin Isadora -- Newman Adam o Moment -- O'Keefe ranchos church o White iris No. 7 -- Pollock blue Poles No. 11 o Deep -- Rauschenberg bed o 110 express -- Reinhardt Untitled (composition No. 104) o Timeless painting -- Rothko green and maroon o Black on grey -- Ryman fur face veil o Monitor -- Sargent daughters of Edward D. Boit o Mrs Edward D. Boit -- Shahn riot on Carol street -- Sheeler aerial gyrations o Stacks in celebration -- Stella six-mile bottom o Khurasan gate (Variation) 1 -- Still 1953 o Untilled -- Stuart the skater o Mrs Richard Yates -- Tanguy imaginary numbers -- Thiebaud display cakes o Steep street -- Twombly vengeance of achilles o Animula Vagula -- Warhol Marilyn Diptych -- West venus lamenting the death of Adonis o Death of General Wolfe -- Whistler harmony in gray and green: Miss Cicely Alexander o Nocturne: blue and gold -- Wood spring turning o American gothic -- Wyeth Young Bull o Drifter -- Directory of Museums and Galleries. |
| Summary |
Sister Wendy Beckett's brilliant insight and quirky delivery have made her both a respected art critic and a beloved personality. Now she focuses her attention on American art in this volume that contains more than 50 high-quality, large-scale reproductions. Full color. |
| Subject |
Painting, American -- 19th century.
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Painting, American -- 20th century.
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Art appreciation.
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| Added Author |
Wright, Patricia.
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| Added Title |
American masterpieces |
| ISBN |
0789459582 |
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