Waubonsee Community College

American arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, from colonial times to World War I, Judith A. Barter, Kimberly Rhodes, and Seth A. Thayer, with contributions by Andrew Walker

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

American arts at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Judith A. Barter, Kimberly Rhodes, and Seth A. Thayer, with contributions by Andrew Walker

"For the first time in its long history, The Art Institute of Chicago is publishing a catalogue of its extensive collection of American art. This landmark publication features 200 of the museum's finest American works. Among the highlights are paintings by Mary Cassatt, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Inness, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler; sculptures by Horatio Greenough, Harriet Hosmet, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Lorado Taft; furniture from the colonial era to the twentieth century, including masterpieces by Herter Brothers and Frank Lloyd Wright; and superb silver and glass objects." "The featured works in the collection are discussed in 150 short essays written by Barter, Kimberly Rhodes, and Seth A. Thayer, with contributions by Andrew Walker. All of these essays include new research, and are the most authoritative studies of these important objects. The authors have presented their findings in an accessible style that will engage both the general reader and the specialist. For anyone interested in American art, this is an indispensable guide to a great collection."--Jacket

from colonial times to World War I

Foreword / James N. Wood -- Preface / Judith A. Barter -- American art in the "great grey city" : the evolution of a collection at the Art Institute of Chicago / Judith A. Barter -- The American Arts Collection / Judith A. Barter, Kimberly Rhodes, and Seth A. Thayer ; with contributions by Andrew Walker -- From colony to nation -- The young republic -- The Civil War era and the Gilded Age -- The modern era -- Glossary of decorative arts terms