Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago"The selection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American paintings captures the unique flavor and variety of the art of the growing nation, from colonial portraits and rustic landscapes to such memorable pictures as Winslow Homer's Herring Net, James McNeill Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Southampton Water, Frederic Remington's Advance Guard, or The Military Sacrifice, and Mary Cassatt's Child's Bath."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago James N. Wood,Art Institute of Chicago No preview available - 1997 |
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