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A Brush with History

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

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Description:Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and history. Offering seventy-six wide-ranging examples from the National Portrait Gallery's incomparable collection, A Brush with History showscases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by Carolyn Kinder Carr, the Gallery's deputy director and chief curator, and Ellen G. Miles, the curator of painting and sculpture. The full-page color reproductions display such works as John Singleton Copley's self-portrait, Henry Inman's Sequuoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Andy Warhol's Michael Jackson. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the museum's research historian, Margaret C. S. Christman, on the Gallery's history. -- from dust jacket.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Brush with History. To get started finding A Brush with History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2001

ISBN: kuTqAAAAMAAJ

Description: Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and history. Offering seventy-six wide-ranging examples from the National Portrait Gallery's incomparable collection, A Brush with History showscases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by Carolyn Kinder Carr, the Gallery's deputy director and chief curator, and Ellen G. Miles, the curator of painting and sculpture. The full-page color reproductions display such works as John Singleton Copley's self-portrait, Henry Inman's Sequuoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Andy Warhol's Michael Jackson. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the museum's research historian, Margaret C. S. Christman, on the Gallery's history. -- from dust jacket.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Brush with History. To get started finding A Brush with History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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