Davidson, Marshall B., & Elizabeth Stillinger, "The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Davidson, Marshall B., & Elizabeth Stillinger, "The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
Publisher: Harrison House | 1988 | ISBN: 0517646269 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 90.34 Mb
Publisher: Harrison House | 1988 | ISBN: 0517646269 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 90.34 Mb
With 524 plates, 251 in full color The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum is the home of America's most important and wide-ranging collection of the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts that have flourished in this country since our earliest days. Now for the first time the treasures of the collection are presented in a book that encompasses and celebrates the richness of our visual heritage.
Here, brilliantly photographed and discussed, are: Seventeen of the famous period rooms, authentic settings that give us a vivid sense of the changing styles of American life, from the Hart Room—the hall of a house built in Ipswich, Massachusetts, before 1674—to the living room of the Little house, a Minneapolis residence completed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1914.
Furniture of four centuries—an enormous variety of forms and designs at once functional and decorative, from the cupboards, chests, and chairs carved by anonymous seventeenth-century artisans, through the pre-Revolutionary styles of Queen Anne and Chippendale … the graceful Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and Duncan Phyfe pieces produced during the Federal era … New England timepieces … Shaker and folk-art furniture … examples of the Greek Revival of the mid-nineteenth century and the Rococo, Gothic, and other revivals that followed… to the innovative designs of Stickley, Wright, and Tiffany.
Lamps, dishes, vessels, and ornamental pieces wrought of many different materials: stoneware; Rookwood and other pottery; porcelain; silver, including the work of Paul Revere; pewter; and glass from the studios of L. C. Tiffany and other masters.
Paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolors, from the naive masterpieces of itinerant portraitists to the great canvases of West, Copley, Stuart, and the Peales … the romantic vistas of Cole, Inness, Church, and Heade … the vastly popular prints of Currier and Ives … the individualistic visions of Homer, Whistler, Eakins, and Sargent … and works by such twentieth-century figures as Sloan, Glackens, and Davies.
Throughout the book, the informative text provides discussions of the artists and craftsmen represented, together with historical, social, and aesthetic commentaries that further enrich this magnificent panorama of the arts Americans have lived with since our beginnings.
Foreword
John K. Howat
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Charles Engelhard Court
Period Rooms
The Early Colonial Period, 1630–1730
Hart Room
Wentworth Room
Hewlett Room
The Late Colonial Period, 1730–90
Aimodington Room
Powel Room
Van Rensselaer Hall
Verplanck Room
Marmion Room
The Federal Period, 1790–1820
Haverhill Room
Baltimore Room
Richmond Room
The Shaker Vernacular
The Pre-Civil War Period
The Greek Revival, 1820–45
The Rococo Revival, 1840–60
The Gothic Revival, 1830–75
The Post-Civil War Period
The Renaissance Revival, 1860–80
The Twentieth Century
Furniture
The Early Colonial Period, 1630–1730
The Late Colonial Period, 1730–90
The Federal and Early Empire Periods 1790–1820
The Shaker Vernacular
Windsors
Folk Art
The Pre-Civil War Period
The Greek Revival, 1820–45
The Rococo Revival, 1840–60
The Gothic Revival, 1830–75
The Post-Civil War Period
Renaissance, Egyptian, and Related Revivals, 1860–80
Innovative Furniture Reform Styles, 1875–1915
Silver
The Colonial Period, 1630–1790
The Federal Period, 1790–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Pewter
Ceramics
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Glass
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors
The Colonial Period, 1630–1790
The Revolutionary Period, 1770–90
Miniatures
The Early Nineteenth Century, 1790–1840
The Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1840–65
The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1865–1915
Sculpture
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1840–65
The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1865–1915
Selected Bibliography
Index
John K. Howat
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Charles Engelhard Court
Period Rooms
The Early Colonial Period, 1630–1730
Hart Room
Wentworth Room
Hewlett Room
The Late Colonial Period, 1730–90
Aimodington Room
Powel Room
Van Rensselaer Hall
Verplanck Room
Marmion Room
The Federal Period, 1790–1820
Haverhill Room
Baltimore Room
Richmond Room
The Shaker Vernacular
The Pre-Civil War Period
The Greek Revival, 1820–45
The Rococo Revival, 1840–60
The Gothic Revival, 1830–75
The Post-Civil War Period
The Renaissance Revival, 1860–80
The Twentieth Century
Furniture
The Early Colonial Period, 1630–1730
The Late Colonial Period, 1730–90
The Federal and Early Empire Periods 1790–1820
The Shaker Vernacular
Windsors
Folk Art
The Pre-Civil War Period
The Greek Revival, 1820–45
The Rococo Revival, 1840–60
The Gothic Revival, 1830–75
The Post-Civil War Period
Renaissance, Egyptian, and Related Revivals, 1860–80
Innovative Furniture Reform Styles, 1875–1915
Silver
The Colonial Period, 1630–1790
The Federal Period, 1790–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Pewter
Ceramics
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Glass
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Pre-Centennial Period, 1830–75
The Post-Centennial Period, 1875–1915
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors
The Colonial Period, 1630–1790
The Revolutionary Period, 1770–90
Miniatures
The Early Nineteenth Century, 1790–1840
The Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1840–65
The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1865–1915
Sculpture
The Colonial and Federal Periods, 1630–1830
The Mid-Nineteenth Century, 1840–65
The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1865–1915
Selected Bibliography
Index
Marshall Davidson, a former curator of The American Wing, is the author of The Drawing of America, New York: A Pictorial History and several other books.
Elizabeth Stillinger is the author of The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America, 1600–1875 and The Antiquers.
Elizabeth Stillinger is the author of The Antiques Guide to Decorative Arts in America, 1600–1875 and The Antiquers.
From Library Journal
The fanfare that accompanied the reopening of the American Wing in 1980 sparked renewed inteest in American fine and decorative arts. Davidson and Stillinger have woven the research produced by the museum's expert curatorial staff into a lively survey of selected room settings and stellar objects. The subject matter is divided into such sections as period rooms, decorative arts, and fine arts and covers the 17th to the early 20th centuries. Unlike most catalogs of art museum collections, this offering devotes many more pages to decorative than to fine arts. The more than 500 photographs are of high quality and many benchmark objects are shown from new angles. This introduction to the American Wing surpasses nearly all surveys in its content and beauty. Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown, N.Y.
The fanfare that accompanied the reopening of the American Wing in 1980 sparked renewed inteest in American fine and decorative arts. Davidson and Stillinger have woven the research produced by the museum's expert curatorial staff into a lively survey of selected room settings and stellar objects. The subject matter is divided into such sections as period rooms, decorative arts, and fine arts and covers the 17th to the early 20th centuries. Unlike most catalogs of art museum collections, this offering devotes many more pages to decorative than to fine arts. The more than 500 photographs are of high quality and many benchmark objects are shown from new angles. This introduction to the American Wing surpasses nearly all surveys in its content and beauty. Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Tarrytown, N.Y.
Barnard, George Grey | Bayly, John | Bierstadt, Albert (American, 1830–1902) | Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | Cassatt, Mary (American, 1844–1926) | Chase, William Merritt (American, 1849–1916) | Chippendale, Thomas (British, 1718–1779) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Cole, Thomas (American, 1801–1848) | Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738–1815) | Crawford, Thomas (American, 1814–1857) | Currier, Nathaniel | Davies, Arthur B. | Doolittle, Amos | Durand, Asher B. (American, 1796–1886) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | Earl, Ralph (American, 1751–1801) | Flannagan, John Bernard | Forbes, William | French, Daniel Chester (American, 1850–1931) | Fueter, Daniel Christian (American, 1720–1785) | Hassam, Childe (American, 1859–1935) | Heade, Martin Johnson (American, 1819–1904) | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | Inness, George (American, 1825–1894) | Johnson, Eastman (American, 1824–1906) | Kensett, John Frederick (American, 1816–1872) | Lachaise, Gaston | Lane, Fitz Henry (formerly Lane, Fitz Hugh) (American, 1804–1865) | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German, active United States, 1816–1868) | Manship, Paul | Myers, Myer (American, 1723–1795) | Palmer, Erastus Dow (American, 1817–1904) | Peale, Charles Willson (American, 1741–1827) | Pelham, Peter | Phyfe, Duncan (Scottish, 1770–1854) | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Revere, Paul (American, 1734–1818) | Rinehart, William Henry (American, 1825–1874) | Sargent, John Singer (American, 1856–1925) | Schmidt, Carl | Sloan, John (American, 1871–1951) | Smibert, John (Scottish, 1688–1751) | Story, William Wetmore (American, 1819–1895) | Thayer, Abbot H. | Tiffany & Company (American, 1837–present) | Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American, 1848–1933) | Vanderlyn, John (American, 1775–1852) | Weir, Julian Alden (American, 1852–1919) | Whistler, James McNeill (American, 1834–1903) | Wright, Frank Lloyd (American, 1867–1959) | Zorach, William
Davidson, Marshall B., & Elizabeth Stillinger, "The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
