Author: Warburton, Eileen and Cora Lee Gibbs
Title: Newportraits
Description: Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 2000. Hardcover. Red cloth/color DJ. ix, 328 pp. 196 bw & color plates. Contents as follows: Director's Foreword / Judith Sobol -- Newportraits: A Retrospective / Eileen Warburton -- Catalogue. The Colonial Period. From the Revolution to the Civil War. The Gilded Age. The Brown Family. The Cushing Family. The Vanderbilt Family. The Morris Family. Portraits on Paper. The Art of the Silhouette. Gentlemen of the Club. The Sporting Scene. Gentlemen and Ladies of the Early Twentieth Century. Olive Bigelow Pell. Twentieth Century: Portraits of Children. The Society Portrait: Ladies of the Twentieth Century. Patrons of Contemporary Artists: After World War II. In 1992, the Newport Art Museum assembled an exhibition of 223 portraits of Newporters painted over a period of three centuries. It presented not just a gallery of the Newport elite and some of its haute bourgeoisie, but also a showcase of the most famous portraitists and portrait styles throughout United States history. Artists represented in this collection range from the great colonial portraitists Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, and John Singleton Copley to such modern figures as Diego Rivera, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET. New in shrinkwrap .
Keywords: American Art ; Portraiture ; ; General Art - American
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Title: Newportraits
Description: Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 2000. Hardcover. Red cloth/color DJ. ix, 328 pp. 196 bw & color plates. Contents as follows: Director's Foreword / Judith Sobol -- Newportraits: A Retrospective / Eileen Warburton -- Catalogue. The Colonial Period. From the Revolution to the Civil War. The Gilded Age. The Brown Family. The Cushing Family. The Vanderbilt Family. The Morris Family. Portraits on Paper. The Art of the Silhouette. Gentlemen of the Club. The Sporting Scene. Gentlemen and Ladies of the Early Twentieth Century. Olive Bigelow Pell. Twentieth Century: Portraits of Children. The Society Portrait: Ladies of the Twentieth Century. Patrons of Contemporary Artists: After World War II. In 1992, the Newport Art Museum assembled an exhibition of 223 portraits of Newporters painted over a period of three centuries. It presented not just a gallery of the Newport elite and some of its haute bourgeoisie, but also a showcase of the most famous portraitists and portrait styles throughout United States history. Artists represented in this collection range from the great colonial portraitists Gilbert Stuart, Robert Feke, and John Singleton Copley to such modern figures as Diego Rivera, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol."--BOOK JACKET. New in shrinkwrap .
Keywords: American Art ; Portraiture ; ; General Art - American
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 22626
- Book number: 22626
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