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Rebora, Carrie, Paul Staiti, Erica E. Hirshler, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., and Carol Troyen, with contributions by Morrison H. Heckscher, Aileen Ribeiro, and Marjorie Shelley (1995)
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John Singleton Copley was the leading portraitist of the American colonial era. This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of Copley's work organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focuses on the paintings, miniatures and pastels which Copley produced before he moved to London in 1774. In four principal essays, a team of experts places Copley's work in historical and social context, and brings new critical methods to bear upon traditional aspects of the study of portraits and portraiture. Among the conclusions are that Copley's portraits helped to shape pre-Revolutionary culture, and that their content was market-driven in a relentlessly consumerist, anglophile society. Four shorter texts treat Copley's use of costumes in his portraits, his achievement as a miniaturist, his pastels, and the frames he used for his work. Catalogue entries on the color-plates detail the sitters' lives, decode the emblematic language that reflected status in colonial society, and reveal the way Copley contrived to enhance his subjects' status. The exhibition with which the book is timed to coincide opens in June 1995 in Boston and in September 1995 in New York, and travels subsequently to Houston and Milwaukee.
Directors' ForewordPhilippe de Montebello and Malcolm Rogers
Preface and AcknowledgmentsLenders to the ExhibitionContributors to the Catalogue
Copley and Art History: The Study of America's First Old MasterCarrie Rebora
Accounting for CopleyPaul Staiti
Character and ClassPaul Staiti
An American Despite HimselfTheodore E. Stebbins Jr.
"The Whole Art of Dress": Costume in The Work of John Singleton CopleyAileen Ribeiro
Copley in MiniatureErica E. Hirshler
Painting in Crayon: The Pastels of John Singleton CopleyMarjorie Shelley
Copley's Picture FramesMorrison H. Heckscher
CatalogueJanet L. Comey, Erica E. Hirshler, Karen E. Quinn, Carrie Rebora, Paul Staiti, Carol Troyen
ChronologyCarrie Rebora
BibliographyIndexPhotograph Credits
Janet L. Comey is Research Assistant, Department of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Morrison H. Heckscher is Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Erica E. Hirshler is Assistant Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Karen E. Quinn is Assistant Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Carrie Rebora is Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Aileen Ribeiro is Professor of the History of Dress, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Marjorie Shelly is Conservator, Paper Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Paul Staiti is Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. is John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Carol Troyen is Associate Curator of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Avery, Kevin J., with an essay by Marjorie Shelley, contributions by Claire A. Conway, and catalogue entries by Kevin J. Avery, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Tracie Felker, Stephanie L. Herdrich, and Karl Kusserow. American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. See more
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Downs, Joseph. "Sugar and Spice..." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New ser., v. 5, no. 7 (March, 1947). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. See more
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Heckscher, Morrison H., with the assistance of Lori Zabar. John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. See more
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Rebora, Carrie, Paul Staiti, Erica E. Hirshler, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., and Carol Troyen, with contributions by Morrison H. Heckscher, Aileen Ribeiro, and Marjorie Shelley. John Singleton Copley in America. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. See more
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Weinberg, H. Barbara, and Carrie Rebora Barratt, eds., with essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads, Bruce Robertson, and H. Barbara Weinberg. American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. See more
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Ackermann, Daniel Kurt. "American Georgian Interiors (Mid-Eighteenth-Century Period Rooms)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more
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Barratt, Carrie Rebora. "John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. See more
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Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and John K. Howat, eds., with essays by Dell Upton, Carrie Rebora Barratt, John K. Howat, Kevin J. Avery, Thayer Tolles, Morrison H. Heckscher, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Amelia Peck, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and Deborah Dependahl Waters. Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. See more
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Barratt, Carrie Rebora. "Compassion." 82nd & Fifth. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. See more
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