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Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Salinger, Margaretta, with a foreword by John K. Howat (1986)

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This group of one hundred American paintings—representing about a tenth of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century paintings in the American field—has been selected to provide an attractive and fair impression both of these holdings and of American painting in general. Although no book based on a specific collection could claim to offer an accurate review of the history of American painting, because of inevitable gaps in any collection—as exemplified here by the slight representation of folk or naive painting—the overall breadth and strength of the Metropolitan collection are not only remarkable but also serviceable for suitably displaying the history and range of American painting.

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Authors: John K. Howat | Margaretta M. Salinger

Artists: Alexander, John White (American, 1856–1915) | Beaux, Cecilia (American, 1855–1942) | Bierstadt, Albert (American, 1830–1902) | Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | Blakelock, Ralph | Brown, John George (American, 1831–1913) | Cassatt, Mary (American, 1844–1926) | Chase, William Merritt (American, 1849–1916) | Church, Frederic Edwin (American, 1826–1900) | Cole, Thomas (American, 1801–1848) | Copley, John Singleton (American, 1738–1815) | Cropsey, Jasper Francis (American, 1823–1900) | Davies, Arthur B. | Durand, Asher B. (American, 1796–1886) | Durand, John | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | Earl, Ralph (American, 1751–1801) | Feke, Robert (American, 1707–1752) | Gifford, Sanford Robinson (American, 1823–1880) | Glackens, William (American, 1870–1938) | Haberle, John | Harnett, William Michael | Hassam, Childe (American, 1859–1935) | Heade, Martin Johnson (American, 1819–1904) | Henri, Robert (American, 1865–1929) | Henry, Edward Lamson | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | Hunt, William Morris (American, 1824–1879) | Ingham, Charles Cromwell | Inness, George (American, 1825–1894) | Johnson, Eastman (American, 1824–1906) | Kensett, John Frederick (American, 1816–1872) | La Farge, John (American, 1835–1910) | Lane, Fitz Henry (formerly Lane, Fitz Hugh) (American, 1804–1865) | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German, active United States, 1816–1868) | Martin, Homer Dodge | Morse, Samuel F. B. (American, 1791–1872) | Mount, William Sidney (American, 1807–1868) | Paxton, William McGregor (American, 1869–1941) | Peale, Charles Willson (American, 1741–1827) | Peale, James (American, 1749–1831) | Peale, Raphaelle | Perry, Enoch Wood (American, 1831–1915) | Peto, John F. | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Prendergast, Maurice (American, 1858–1924) | Robinson, Theodore (American, 1852–1896) | Ryder, Albert Pinkham | Sargent, John Singer (American, 1856–1925) | Sloan, John (American, 1871–1951) | Smibert, John (Scottish, 1688–1751) | Stuart, Gilbert (American, 1755–1828) | Sully, Thomas (American, 1783–1872) | Tarbell, Edmund Charles (American, 1862–1938) | Thayer, Abbot H. | Thompson, Jerome B. (American, 1814–1886) | Trumbull, John (American, 1756–1843) | Twachtman, John Henry (American, 1853–1902) | Vedder, Elihu (American, 1836–1923) | Weir, John Ferguson | Weir, Julian Alden (American, 1852–1919) | West, Benjamin (American, 1738–1820) | Whistler, James McNeill (American, 1834–1903) | Williams, William (American, 1727–1791) | Wollaston, John (British, active 1733–1767)

Keywords: America | American artists | American painting | Eighteenth century | Genre painting | Genre scene | Impressionism | Landscape painting | Landscapes | New York | Ninteenth-century | Oil paints | Painting | Paris | Portraits | Portraiture | Twentieth-century

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