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A Walk Through The American Wing

The curators of the American Wing, with an introduction by Morrison H. Heckscher and H. Barbara Weinberg (2002)

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The American Wing is a favorite destination for the Metropolitan's visitors, so I am particularly pleased that, once again, there is in print a handy and dependable guide to its treasures. The joint work of the curatorial staffs of the Departments of American Decorative Arts and American Paintings and Sculpture, the text is informed by the latest scholarship presented in an informal and accessible manner.

The American Wing is a living organism, with its collections and their means of display continually evolving. Since 1980, for example, literally hundreds of works of art have been acquired thanks to the generosity of many collectors and donors; a half dozen important period rooms, including a masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright, have been installed; and the Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, in which most of the Wing's reserve collections are on public view, has opened. Changes will continue, and it is our hope that this new volume, organized to guide the visitor through three stories and many galleries, will be as popular, and go through as many editions, as the original Handbook of the American Wing.

Table of contents

Director's Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Introduction
Morrison H. Heckscher and H. Barbara Weinberg

The Charles Engelhard Court

Decorative Arts

Paintings and Sculpture

Study Collections

Donors

Tags

Authors: H. Barbara Weinberg | Morrison H. Heckscher

Artists: Adams, Nehemiah | Alexander, John White (American, 1856–1915) | Andrews, Ambrose | Barry, Joseph B. | Bartholomew, Edward Sheffield (American, 1822–1858) | Beaux, Cecilia (American, 1855–1942) | Bierstadt, Albert (American, 1830–1902) | Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | Blackburn, Joseph | Brown, Henry Kirke (American, 1814–1886) | Cassatt, Mary (American, 1844–1926) | Chase, William Merritt (American, 1849–1916) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Cole, Thomas (American, 1801–1848) | Commeraw, Thomas | Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738–1815) | Cox, Kenyon | Crawford, Thomas (American, 1814–1857) | Cropsey, Jasper Francis (American, 1823–1900) | Davey, John | Dihl et Guérhard, Paris (1781–ca. 1824) | Durand, Asher B. (American, 1796–1886) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | Earl, Ralph (American, 1751–1801) | Finlay, John | French, Daniel Chester (American, 1850–1931) | Gifford, Sanford Robinson (American, 1823–1880) | Gould, Nathaniel (American, 1734–1782) | Haberle, John | Harnett, William Michael | Hassam, Childe (American, 1859–1935) | Herter Brothers | Hewlett, John | Hicks, Edward (American, 1780–1849) | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | Ingham, Charles Cromwell | Inness, George (American, 1825–1894) | Johnson, Eastman (American, 1824–1906) | Kensett, John Frederick (American, 1816–1872) | Kierstede, Cornelius (American, 1674–1757) | La Farge, John (American, 1835–1910) | Lannuier, Charles Honoré (French, 1779–1819, active in the United States) | Latrobe, Benjamin Henry | Le Roux, Charles (American, baptized 1689–1745) | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German, active United States, 1816–1868) | Müller, Karl L. H. (American, 1820–1887) | MacMonnies, Frederick William (American, 1863–1937) | Marcotte, Leon (American, active 1848–60) | McIntire, Samuel | McKim, Mead and White | Morse, Samuel F. B. (American, 1791–1872) | Mount, William Sidney (American, 1807–1868) | Myers, Myer (American, 1723–1795) | Nash, Theophilus | Pabst, Daniel (American, 1826–1910) | Palmer, Erastus Dow (American, 1817–1904) | Peale, Charles Willson (American, 1741–1827) | Phillips, Ammi (American, 1788–1865) | Phyfe, Duncan (Scottish, 1770–1854) | Powers, Hiram (American, 1805–1873) | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Prendergast, Maurice (American, 1858–1924) | Querville, Anthony | Rasch, Anthony (American, born Germany, active ca. 1807–57) | Remington, Frederic (American, 1861–1909) | Robinson, Theodore (American, 1852–1896) | Roth, Heinrich | Roux, Alexander (American, born France, 1813–1886) | Ryder, Albert Pinkham | Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (American, 1848–1907) | Sargent, John Singer (American, 1856–1925) | Searle, William (1634–1667) | Seymour, Thomas (American, 1771–1848) | Smibert, John (Scottish, 1688–1751) | Stuart, Gilbert (American, 1755–1828) | Sullivan, Louis Henry | Sully, Thomas (American, 1783–1872) | Tanner, Henry Ossawa | Tiffany & Company (American, 1837–present) | Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American, 1848–1933) | Townsend, John (American, 1733–1809) | Trumbull, John (American, 1756–1843) | Twachtman, John Henry (American, 1853–1902) | Vanderlyn, John (American, 1775–1852) | Vonnoh, Bessie Potter (American, 1872–1955) | Ward, John Quincy Adams (American, 1830–1910) | Weir, Julian Alden (American, 1852–1919) | Whistler, James McNeill (American, 1834–1903) | Willard, Aaron | Willard, Benjamin | Williams, Sarah Furman Warner (American) | Wright, Frank Lloyd (American, 1867–1959)

Keywords: American art | Architectural elements | Boston | Decorative arts | Furniture | George Washington | Glass | Glassware | Hudson River School | Interiors | Nature | Needlework | Nineteenth-century America | Ninteenth-century | Painting | Period rooms | Philadelphia | Portraits | Portraiture | Sculpture | Silver | Stained glass | Textiles | William and Mary

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