
Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
200 pages
135 illustrations
This title is out of print.
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.
Met Art in Publication
American
ca. 1750
Pieter Vanderlyn
1732
John Smibert
1729
John Smibert
1729
Robert Feke
1746
John Wollaston
ca. 1749–52
William Williams
ca. 1770–75
John Durand
ca. 1766–68
Matthew Pratt
1765
Benjamin West
1809
John Singleton Copley
1771
John Singleton Copley
1773
John Singleton Copley
1782
Ralph Earl
1789
Charles Willson Peale
ca. 1779–81
Charles Willson Peale
1782
John Trumbull
1789
John Trumbull
ca. 1792–94
Gilbert Stuart
ca. 1793–94
Gilbert Stuart
1798
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