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Maine in America: American Art at The Farnsworth Art Museum
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by Pamela J. Belanger, Christopher B. Crosman, and William H. Gerdts
Sales Rank: 769355
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List Price: $55.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
Published by: FarnsworthEdition: 1st Edition December 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0918749085
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0918749086
Book Dimensions:
11.6 x 9.9 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 3.5 pounds
Product Review
"Sets a new standard for museum publications in Maine. Handsomely designed, gorgeously illustrated, and impressively documented, Maine in America also establishes the Farnsworth as a regional art museum ambitious for national attention . . . As a physical object, [the book] is as tasteful as the art it chronicles . . . Any reader with a serious interest in Maine art will want Maine in America on the bookshelf." --Down East Magazine
Product Description
Mount Desert, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit, Mount Katahdin, Camden Harbor, the Allagash -- these names evoke varied images of Maine -- images created by such artists as Frederic E. Church, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, and Edward Hopper. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Maine served as both host and inspiration for a remarkable number of artists. It has been represented in almost every style and medium -- the luminist landscapes of Fitz Hugh Lane, impressionist seascapes of Willard Metcalf, abstractions by John Marin, and the realism of Andrew Wyeth's work.
For 50 years, the Farnsworth Art Museum has collected expressions of Maine by these artists and others. Works by Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Robert Salmon, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and others attest to the depth of the Museum's 19th century collection. The 20th century is richly represented by Will Barnet, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, Neil Welliver, Marguerite and William Zorach, and especially the Wyeth family. The museum's holdings of American impressionists are especially strong, with works by Frank Benson, Joseph DeCamp, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, and John Twachtman.
Maine in America presents a lavish selection of nearly 250 works from the Farnsworth's permanent collection of paintings, watercolors, and sculpture and traces the development of art in Maine within the greater context of American art.
Reader Reviews
In it's fifty years of existence the Farnsworth Art Museum has focused on acquiring a collection of art that represents the history of art and artists in Maine. This 256 page book is an excellent survery of their holdings from the early paintings of J Jonathan Fisher to the realist paintings of Neil Welliver. There is a one page review of each of 84 artists followed by one to three color plates of their works held by the Farnsworth. The biographical sketch of each artist is concise and accurately describes how the artist fits into not only art in Maine but art in America from the 18th century to the present. I love Maine art and I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned a lot from it.
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