Modern American painting, by Peyton Boswell, Jr. ; with 89 illustrations in full color selected from the series on contemporary American artists published in Life

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The instance Modern American painting, by Peyton Boswell, Jr. ; with 89 illustrations in full color selected from the series on contemporary American artists published in Life represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.

Label

Modern American painting, by Peyton Boswell, Jr. ; with 89 illustrations in full color selected from the series on contemporary American artists published in Life

Statement of responsibility

by Peyton Boswell, Jr. ; with 89 illustrations in full color selected from the series on contemporary American artists published in Life

Instantiates

• Modern American painting

Publication

• New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940

Copyright

• ©1939

Note

• "Biographies [by Margit Varga]": pages 93-166
• "Catalogue of paintings": [3] p. at end

Bibliography note

"Biographies [by Margit Vargas]" p.93-166

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

The text. Discovery of an artistic nationality ; Our historical ancestors ; Our colonial limners ; Copley and West ; The pupils of West ; Our early landscape painters ; The Hudson River School ; Inness and his followers ; Genre painters ; The expatriates ; America's native triumvirate ; The eight of 1908 ; The armory show ; The rise of nationalism ; The American scene ; Social protest ; A new trend-pure art ; The government enters art ; Defining the American artist ; The art patron -- The paintings. The death of Wolfe / Benjamin West ; The surrender of Lord Cornwallis / John Trumbull ; Emigrant train / Samuel Colman ; General Doubleday crossing the Potomac / David G. Blythe ; Placer mining / Chadwick ; Boston Harbor-long and central wharves / Robert W. Salmon ; Daniel Boone escorting a band of pioneers / George Caleb Bingham ; The verdict of the people / George Caleb Bingham ; Old Kentucky home / Eastman Johnson ; Peace and plenty / George Inness ; Max Schmitt in a single scull / Thomas Eakins ; Death on a pale horse / Albert Pinkham Ryder ; The little white girl / James McNeill Whistler ; Prisoners from the front / Winslow Homer ; The Gulf Stream / Winslow Homer ; The Wyndham sisters / John Singer Sargent ; Stag at Sharkey's / George Wesley Bellows ; Sunday, women drying their hair / John Sloan ; Wake of the ferry no. 2 / John Sloan ; Flood refugees / Jon Corbino ; Over the dam / Charles E. Burchfield ; Six o'clock / Charles E. Burchfield ; Noon / Doris Lee ; American gothic / Grant Wood ; Daughters of revolution / Grant Wood ; Woman with plants / Grant Wood ; The jealous lover of Lone Green Valley / Thomas Hart Benton ; Persephone / Thomas Hart Benton ; Huck Finn and Nigger Jim / Thomas Hart Benton ; T.P. and Jake / Thomas Hart Benton ; Pussy cat and roses / Thomas Hart Benton ; Tornado over Kansas / John Steuart Curry ; Circus elephants / John Steuart Curry ; Line storm / John Steuart Curry ; Baptism in Kansas / John Steuart Curry ; The corn dance / Edward Laning ; Drouth-stricken area / Alexandre Hogue ; Janitor's holiday / Paul Sample ; Corner Grocery, Taos / Ward Lockwood ; Dead head / Edwin L. Fulwider ; Boy from the plains / Peter Hurd ; The dry river / Peter Hurd ; The country doctor / Lauren Ford ; Maine trotting race / Waldo Peirce ; New England harbor / Edna Reindel ; Transfer of mail from liner to tugboat / Reginald Marsh ; Sorting mail / Reginald Marsh ; High Yaller / Reginald Marsh ; TVA worker and family / Henry Varnum Poor ; Pleading the gold case / Henry Varnum Poor ; Custom House workers / Henry Varnum Poor ; Surveying new lands / Henry Varnum Poor ; Swing low, sweet chariot / John McCrady ; Coney Island / Paul Cadmus ; Turtle Creek Valley / John Kane ; Vermont Classic / Luigi Lucioni ; Tenement / George Biddle ; Arrest no. 2 / Henry Billings ; The Senate / William Gropper ; Landscape near Chicago / Aaron Bohrod ; Controlled medicine / William C. Palmer ; Doctor's office / Raphael Soyer ; Parade / Peter Blume ; House by the railroad ; Light house at two lights / Edward Hopper ; White barn / Georgia O'Keeffe ; The big water / Frederick J. Waugh ; City interior / Charles Sheeler ; Overseas highway / Ralston Crawford ; Night and the sea / Henry Mattson ; Bearsville Meadows / Emil Ganso ; View of Kingston / Georgina Klitgaard ; Old Smuggler's Cove / Jonas Lie ; Adolescence / Stephen Etnier ; The Maryland hunt / Vaughn Flannery ; Rehearsal / Frederic Taubes ; The pink skirt / Gladys Rockmore Davis ; The blue necklace / Eugene Speicher ; Nude / Ann Brockman ; The dancer / Jerry Farnsworth ; Arrangement, life and still life / Robert Brackman ; Objects on sofa / Yasuo Kuniyoshi ; My wife / Richard Lahey ; Mural assistant / Louis Bouché ; Figure outdoors / Leon Kroll ; Basket and fruit / Arnold Blanch ; Katharine Hepburn / Alexander Brook ; Katharine Cornell as Candida / Eugene Speicher ; White lace / John Carroll

Control code

1105217

Dimensions

34 cm

Extent

166, [4] pages, [27] leaves of color plates

Lccn

48037291

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

.b1456130x

System control number

(OCoLC)1105217