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The American Wing: A Guide

Davidson, Marshall B. (1980)

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The collections of American art in the Metropolitan Museum are the most comprehensive and representative to be found anywhere. Here, under one roof, have been assembled significant examples in every medium and from all periods of this country's history, including acknowledged masterpieces in each of the many categories—painting, sculpture, architecture, prints and drawings, and decorative arts.

Table of contents

Color Plates
Foreword
Introduction

The Charles Engelhard Court

The Balcony

Silver

Pewter

Glass

Ceramics

The Joan Whitney Payson Galleries

Paintings and Sculpture

Period Rooms and Furniture Galleries

Third Floor: Early Colonial Period

Second Floor: Late Colonial Period

First Floor: Early Federal Period

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Authors: Marshall B. Davidson

Artists: Adams, Nehemiah | Barnard, George Grey | Bellows, George | Bierstadt, Albert (American, 1830–1902) | Bingham, George Caleb (American, 1811–1879) | 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) | Crawford, Thomas (American, 1814–1857) | Davies, Arthur B. | Durand, Asher B. (American, 1796–1886) | Eakins, Thomas (American, 1844–1916) | French, Daniel Chester (American, 1850–1931) | Glackens, William (American, 1870–1938) | Grueby Faience Company (American, 1894–ca. 1911) | Harnett, William Michael | Heade, Martin Johnson (American, 1819–1904) | Homer, Winslow (American, 1836–1910) | Hopper, Edward (American, 1882–1967) | Inness, George (American, 1825–1894) | Johnson, Eastman (American, 1824–1906) | Lane, Fitz Henry (formerly Lane, Fitz Hugh) (American, 1804–1865) | Lannuier, Charles Honoré (French, 1779–1819, active in the United States) | Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German, active United States, 1816–1868) | Müller, Karl L. H. (American, 1820–1887) | MacMonnies, Frederick William (American, 1863–1937) | Morse, Samuel F. B. (American, 1791–1872) | Mount, William Sidney (American, 1807–1868) | Myers, Myer (American, 1723–1795) | Palmer, Erastus Dow (American, 1817–1904) | Peale, Charles Willson (American, 1741–1827) | Peale, James (American, 1749–1831) | Phyfe, Duncan (Scottish, 1770–1854) | Powers, Hiram (American, 1805–1873) | Pratt, Matthew (American, 1734–1805) | Rasch, Anthony (American, born Germany, active ca. 1807–57) | Remington, Frederic (American, 1861–1909) | Rimmer, William | Robinson, Theodore (American, 1852–1896) | 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 | Tiffany & Company (American, 1837–present) | Tiffany, Louis Comfort (American, 1848–1933) | Trumbull, John (American, 1756–1843) | Twachtman, John Henry (American, 1853–1902) | Ward, John Quincy Adams (American, 1830–1910) | Whistler, James McNeill (American, 1834–1903) | Wright, Frank Lloyd (American, 1867–1959)

Keywords: America | American architecture | American artists | American furniture | American Impressionism | American masterpieces | American nationalism | American painting | American sculpture | American Watercolor Society | Bronze | Cast brass | Collections | Decorative arts | Domestic interiors | Neoclassicism | Relief sculpture

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