This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. The collection includes a remarkable number of iconic works in all genres of American painting from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It also boasts outstanding breadth and depth in Hudson River School painting, nineteenth-century portraiture and genre painting, American Impressionism, and early twentieth century realism. This fully-illustrated publication includes an introductory essay by Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Sarah Cash, that will serve as the comprehensive examination of the Corcoran's long and illustrious history of collecting and supporting American art.
- ISBN10 1555953611
- ISBN13 9781555953614
- Publish Date 16 April 2011
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hudson Hills Press Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 356
- Language English