Bibliograph

American naive paintings, Deborah Chotner ; with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, Laurie Weitzenkorn

Type

Label

American naive paintings, Deborah Chotner ; with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, Laurie Weitzenkorn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American naive paintings

Nature of contents

catalogsbibliography

Oclc number

25409678

Responsibility statement

Deborah Chotner ; with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, Laurie Weitzenkorn

Series statement

The Collections of the National Gallery of Art : systematic catalogue

Summary

This volume is devoted to the American naive paintings in the National Gallery of Art, which has one of the most important collections of this kind in the world. Created outside the academic mainstream, these paintings show an extraordinary diversity of individual expression and serve as vivid documents of American culture. Most of the works formerly belonged to the collection of Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, who donated more than 300 paintings and about 100 drawings to the Gallery over nearly thirty years. Most date from the nineteenth century and a substantial number are by well-known folk artists, including Erastus Salisbury Field, Ammi Phillips, and William Matthew Prior. The breadth and depth of the collection is such that it is possible, in several cases, to trace the progress of an individual artist's style. Although the majority of works came to the Gallery without identification, through painstaking research it has been possible to make attributions, which are published here for the first time. Many of the works in the Gallery's collection of American naive paintings are reproduced here in color. The extensive catalogue provides a full history of the objects and artists, with technical notes as well as biographical and bibliographical information

Table Of Contents

Abbreviations for frequently cited exhibitions -- Abbreviations for frequently cited institutions -- Abbreviations for frequently cited publications -- Notes to the reader -- Contributors -- Indices -- Titles -- Subjects and painting types -- Provenance names -- Concordances -- Old-new titles -- Old-new attributions -- Old attribution and title-new attribution and title -- New-old accession numbers -- List of artists

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