In association with the High Museum exhibition, this volume takes a fresh look at the work of one of America's most beloved artists. The book celebrates the artist's ongoing love affair with everyday life--domestic, natural, and architectural. Includes 150 tempera paintings and 50 drawings and watercolors.
This complete handbook of the Philadelphia Museum of art's permanent collection of Pennsylvania German objects is the first resource of its kind, revealing the full range, depth and quality of a folk art collection 90 years in the making. Photographs of 1,115 Pensylvania German ceramics and glass, furniture and household objects, books, tools and ...
Renowned for his alluring and provocative photographs of the monuments, interiors, streets and people of Paris, Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927) was fascinated with the myriad materials, textures, surfaces and details of his subjects. Although not well known in his own lifetime, his influential work now appears in almost all the world's major museums. ...
Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential proponents of photography and Surrealism during the second quarter of the twentieth century. In his gallery, which operated from 1931 to 1949, Levy hosted the first New York exhibition devoted to Surrealism, and presented early solo exhibitions of many photographers now considered iconic in ...
Consisting of color reproductions and critical text, this catalog was produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Delacroix's little-known late period, which was characterized by works that are smaller and more decorative than the huge color-filled canvases he was famous for, such as "The Death of Saradanopalus" and "Liberty Leading the ...
A substantial catalogue of the vast holdings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. More than 150 works of art are presented and commented on by Peter C Sutton a former curator at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Over a decade in the making, this formidable scholarly work presents a remarkable range of pictures. It will be of immense interest to ...
Dutch earthenware has a universal reputation and is represented in the ceramic collections of the great museums. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a comprehensive collection of Delft blue and white and polychrome earthenware. The collection contains a number of highly important and unique pieces. A selection of the most interesting pieces is ...
One of the world's finest private collections of Indian 'miniature' paintings, a promised bequest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is represented by some 90 works of art created in workshops across India over the course of four centuries. The paintings, all reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed scholarly examination, span the ...
Nearly 400 textiles from East and West are reproduced in full colour in this handbook of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's encyclopaedic collections, which cover a broad range of geographic areas, periods, and techniques. Europe and the Americas are represented by woven textiles, printed textiles, embroidery, lace, samplers, quilts and coverlets, ...
This catalogue represents the entire collection of antique oriental carpets housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art which date from the 15th to the 19th century. All major areas of manufacture are represented - Turkey, Egypt, Syria, the Caucasus, Persia, India, Spain and China - a separate chapter being devoted to each region, which is introduced ...
Featuring pivotal works of 20th-century painting and sculpture, this book handsomely illustrates a selection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's outstanding modern art collection, accompanied by lively descriptive notes. The Museum's emphasis on early modern art was heralded by the first acquisitions of works by Constantin Brancusi and Pablo ...
This comprehensive and fully illustrated volume of the complete 1976 Bicentennial exhibition is a major reference work for the arts of Philadelphia. The art and history of the city and its environs are chronologically presented through every medium. Over 500 paintings, sculptures, architecture, prints, drawings, photos, silver and pewter, ...
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