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Frames of reference, looking at American art, 1900-1950 : works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, editors ; with an essay by Kennedy Fraser and contributions by Robert Adams [and others]

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Frames of reference, looking at American art, 1900-1950 : works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, editors ; with an essay by Kennedy Fraser and contributions by Robert Adams [and others]
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Frames of reference
Nature of contents
catalogsbibliography
Oclc number
41620614
Responsibility statement
Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, editors ; with an essay by Kennedy Fraser and contributions by Robert Adams [and others]
Sub title
looking at American art, 1900-1950 : works from the Whitney Museum of American Art
Table Of Contents
Foreword / Maxwell L. Anderson -- Introduction / Adam D. Weinberg -- The Whitney : biography of an institution -- Love and struggle : Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney / Kennedy FraserVisual contexts for American art. John Sloan, The picnic grounds / Kate Rubin -- Gaston Lachaise, Standing woman / Adam D. Weinberg -- Max Weber, Chinese restaurant / Kate Rubin -- Charles Burchfield, Noontide in late May / Kate Rubin -- Marsden Hartley, Landscape, New Mexico / Angela Kramer Murphy -- John Storrs, Forms in space 1 / Beth Benn -- Arthur Dove, The critic / Beth Venn -- Charles Sheeler, Interior / Kate Rubin -- Arshile Gorky, The artist and his mother / Adam D. Weinberg -- Gerald Murphy, Cocktail / Adam D. Weinberg -- Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh / Kate Rubin -- Georgia O'Keeffe, The white calico flower / Angela Kramer Murphy -- Charles Sheeler, River rouge plant / Angela Kramer Murphy -- Grant Wood, Study for breaking the prairie / Kathryn Potts -- Raphael Soyer, Office Girls / Kathryn Potts -- Reginald Marsh, Twenty cent movie / Adam D. Weinberg -- Burgoyne Diller, First theme / Naomi Urabe -- Man Ray, La fortune / Beth Venn -- Philip Evergood, Lily and the sparrows / Angela Kramer Murphy -- Theodore Roszak, Bi-polar in red / Beth Venn -- Andrew Wyeth, Winter fields / Adam D. Weinberg -- Richard Pousette-Dart, Within the room / Adam D. Weinberg -- Jacob Lawrence, War series: Another patrol / Beth Venn -- Thomas Hart Benton, Poker night / Kathryn Potts -- Edward Hopper, Seven A.M. / Angela Kramer Murphy -- Stuart Davis, Owh! In San Paõ / Angela Kramer MurphyAmerican icons interpreted. Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge / Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier ; Henry Petroski ; John Yau -- William J. Glackens, Hammerstein's roof garden / Kathryn Harrison ; Lewis Erenberg ; Brendan Gill -- Ben Shahn, The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti / Alfred Kazin ; Alan M. Dershowitz ; Frances K. Pohl -- George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo / Elliott J. Gorn ; George Plimpton ; Marianne Doezema -- Charles Demuth, My Egypt / Karal Ann Marling ; Lisa Mahar ; Maurice Berger -- Alexander Calder, Calder's circus / Howard Gardner ; Robert Wilson ; Neil Harris -- Edward Hopper, Early Sunday morning / John Updike ; Robert Adams ; Brian O'Doherty -- Georgia O'Keeffe, Summer days / Kathleen Norris ; Anne M. Wagner ; Sarah Whitaker Peters -- Elie Nadelman, Tango / Richard Martin ; Martin Puryear ; Henry Glassie -- Marsden Hartley, Painting, number 5 / Peter Gay ; Charles Eldredge ; Patricia McDonnellAcknowledgements / Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg
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