Three Hundred Years of American Painting: the Montclair Art Museum Collection.Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum The Montclair Art Museum, locally referred to as MAM, is located in Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States The museum focuses on 19th century- through contemporary American and Native American Art. Collection. Marilyn S. Kushner, Alejandro Anrcus, Marion Grzesiak, and Virginia Wageman. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Hudson Hills Press, 1989. 199 pps., illustrated, hardbound hard·bound adj. & n. Hardcover. Adj. 1. hardbound - having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" hardback, hardbacked, hardcover backed - having a back or backing, usually of a specified type , $50.00. The Montclair (New Jersey) Art Museum, one of America's leading small museums, has focused its founding on the collecting of American paintings. In 1945 its trustees formally endorsed the building of a collection that would document the development of American painting from its beginnings to contemporary movements. Significant among Montclair's holdings of more than five-hundred American works are eighteenth and nineteenth-century landscapes, especially of the Hudson River Hudson River River, New York, U.S. Originating in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing for about 315 mi (507 km) to New York City, it was named for Henry Hudson, who explored it in 1609. Dutch settlement of the Hudson valley began in 1629. and Tonalist schools and early twentieth-century Modernist works. These groupings are studded with master pieces by Joseph Blackburn
He was born in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the family of a local merchant. , Robert Motherwell Noun 1. Robert Motherwell - United States abstract expressionist painter (1915-1991) Motherwell and others. This important collection is documented in detail and discussed in several essays in a beautifully produced volume that is a must for any secondary library or university study collection. It features essays by four prominent critics and art historians on significant aspects of the collection: "American Portraits, 1720-1920: The Taste of the People," "American Landscapes," "American Paintings, 1900-1939" and "Abstract Expressionism in Context." To highlight works from the collection, thirty-two paintings are reproduced in vivid full color opposite individual essays about the artist, the work and its social, historical and aesthetic contexts. The work and essays included in this book are essential additions to resources needed for curricula that stress art history and criticism. It is especially valuable for students and teachers who are interested in the critical area of American art. It is highly recommended for secondary students, teachers and those in higher education who are interested in the visual arts in America. |
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