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Three centuries of American prints from the National Gallery of Art / Judith Brodie, Amy Johnston, Michael J. Lewis ; with John Fagg, Adam Greenhalgh, Franklin Kelly, David M. Lubin, Leo G. Mazow, Alexander Nemerov, Jennifer Raab, Jennifer L. Roberts, Marc Simpson, Susan Tallman, Joyce Tsai, David C. Ward.
Author:
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), author, organizer, host institution.

Brodie, Judith. Formation of the American print collection at the National Gallery of Art.

Národní galerie v Praze, host institution.
Publication Information:
Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2016]
Call Number:
NE505 .N38 2016
Abstract:
Nearly 200 American prints, representing more than 100 artists, and dating from the colonial era to the present day, are brought together in this unprecedented volume from the National Gallery of Art to commemorate its collection and recent acquisitions. The artists featured range from Paul Revere through James McNeil Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Louise Nevelson, Romare Bearden, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close, and Kara Walker. The works date from essentially every period in American history, so major art and historical themes running through the collection are readily visible. Lending context, twelve contributing authors discuss the varied themes in American art. Biographies of the artists and a glossary of printmaking terms are also featured. Since its founding in 1941, the National Gallery of Art has assiduously collected American prints with the help of many generous donors. The Gallery's American print collection has grown from nearly 1,900 prints in 1950 to more than 22,500 prints today. The collection was recently transformed by the acquisition of an extraordinary group of 5,200 American prints brought together by Reba and Dave Williams.
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Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780500239520

9780894684005
Physical Description:
xi, 347 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Contents:
Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 3 -- July 24, 2016 and the Národní galerie v Praze, Prague, October 4, 2015 -- January 5, 2017.

American prints, their makers, and their public / Paul Revere's caffeine : the bloody massacre / The one who makes pictures / "And the war came ..." : rupture and contradiction in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture / At home abroad in the later nineteenth century / Lines defining land and sea / Marking distinction / Building bodies, body buildings : New York City around 1900 / American mosaic : modern American prints / "Just looking" : prints, 1925-1940 / Mobility and connectedness / Picturing depth in mid-twentieth-century America / Sifted : screenprinting and the art of the 1960s / American printmaking, 1977 to the present / American prints at the National Gallery of Art
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