American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art,9780789206251

American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

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ISBN13: 9780789206251
ISBN10: 0789206250
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Abbeville Pr
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Summary

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington's oldest and largest private art museum, is recognized nationally and internationally for its outstanding collection of American art. Its founder, William Wilson Corcoran, was among the first American collectors to seriously appreciate contemporary art of this country, at a time when most of his peers favored European works. His important collection of mainly American paintings and sculpture formed the nucleus of the art museum he founded in 1869.

Over its 130-year history the Corcoran's collection of American art has grown dramatically through purchases and generous gifts. Today, the Corcoran's holdings total over fourteen thousand objects, at the core of which is a world-renowned collection of nineteenth-century American paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings; American art of the eighteenth century is also well represented. The Corcoran continues to build its contemporary collection, notably through purchases made from the Biennial exhibitions of contemporary art, begun in 1907. As a result, the museum also has a

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(9)
David C. Levy
Introduction 9(6)
Sarah Cash
The Colonial and Federal Periods
15(26)
Sarah Cash
The Romantic Era
41(54)
Sarah Cash
Impressionism and Realism
95(64)
Sarah Cash
Realism and Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century
159(50)
Sarah Cash
Postwar Abstraction and Representation
209(67)
Terrie Sultan
Index of Donors' Credits 276(4)
Index of Illustrations 280

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