American stories: paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915

Helene Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Yale University Press, 2009 - Art - 222 pages

This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier.

 

Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists’ aspirations and viewers’ expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs.

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AMERICAN STORIES: PAINTINGS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, 1765 - 1915 is a catalogue that accompanied a sensitive and very popular exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Los Angeles ...

Contents

• Stories for the Public 18301860: 29
• Stories of War and Reconciliation 186018: 75
• Cosmopolitan and Candid Stories 181915: 113

About the author

H. Barbara Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margaret C. Conrads is Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Bruce Robertson is Professor of Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator, Department of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Bibliographic information

• Title: American stories: paintings of everyday life, 1765-1915
• Authors: Helene Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Editors: Helene Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt
• Contributors: Helene Barbara Weinberg, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 2009
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Aug 28, 2010
• Length: 222 pages
• Subjects: Art / American / General; Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; Art / History / General; Art / Subjects & Themes / General; Exhibitions; Genre painting, American; Genre painting, American - Exhibitions; Genre painting, American/ Exhibitions; History / General; History / United States / General; Manners and customs in art; Manners and customs in art - Exhibitions; Manners and customs in art/ Exhibitions; United States; United States - In art