The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Author: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher: Museums
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"The American art collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd during the 1960s and 1970s constitutes one of the great private collections of historic American painting. This book examines the collection in depth, focusing on 140 works donated to The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in the years since 1979." "The works reproduced include examples from America's foremost realist masters. Among them are portraits by John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale; landscapes by Thomas Cole, Frederic E. Church, and Martin Johnson Heade; George Caleb Bingham's extraordinary Boatmen on the Missouri; one of Edward Hick's most ambitious treatments of The Peaceable Kingdom; watercolors, drawings, and an early Civil War oil by Winslow Homer; and works by Eastman Johnson, Thomas Anshutz, John Frederick Peto, Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and Andrew Wyeth." "Each work is reproduced here in full color. The accompanying texts, comprised of extracts from contemporary accounts by artists, critics, patrons, and sitters, are lively and illuminating guides to understanding each work's history and significance. A detailed history of ownership and public exhibition and a selected bibliography are also provided for each painting. In many cases, this is the first time these important materials have appeared in print." "The fascinating introductory essay examines the context of the Rockefellers' collecting, the directions they considered in forming the collection, their increasing sense of responsibility toward it, and factors they considered in its disposition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

American Art

American Art
Author: Edgar Preston Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1977
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780884010180

American Art

American Art
Author: Edgar Preston Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1976
Genre: Art
ISBN:

American Art

American Art
Author: Edgar Preston Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 1976
Genre:
ISBN:

Catalogue raisonné.

American Art

American Art
Author: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1976
Genre: Art, American
ISBN:

The American Canvas

The American Canvas
Author: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1989
Genre: Painting
ISBN:

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Author: Joan M. Marter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 3140
Release: 2011
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0195335791

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

American Sculpture

American Sculpture
Author: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1982
Genre: Sculpture, American
ISBN:

The American Canvas

The American Canvas
Author: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: