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American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings.


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American art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture,  at the Chrysler Museum; selected paintings, sculpture, and drawings.

Hagood, Martha N. and Jefferson C. Harrison.

Chrysler Museum of Art Coordinates:

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum in the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia.
 

2005

271 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

N6505

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., who collected American art from the earliest Colonial period Colonial Period may generally refer to any period in a country's history when it was subject to administration by a colonial power.
  • Korea under Japanese rule
  • Colonial America
See also
  • Colonialism
 to the present, presented his collection to what became the Chrysler Museum, in Norfolk, Virginia in 1971. This handsome, oversize o·ver·size  
n.
1. A size that is larger than usual.

2. An oversize article or object.

adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized
Larger in size than usual or necessary.

Adj. 1.
 (10.25x12.25") volume presents 163 works from the collection in color plates accompanied by detailed entries by the authors (both are curators with the Chrysler Museum). Distributed by the U. of Virginia Press.

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