Description
Book SynopsisThe Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is internationally recognised for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photography. When its founder, Thomas Cochran, opened the Addison to the public in 1931, it was one of the few museums in this country devoted solely to American art. Cochran initially donated four hundred significant works of art, commissioned a building, and provided generous endowments. Today the holdings total over 12,000 objects that span the history of American art from the seventeenth century to the present.
Among the some 240 notable examples from the collection included in this tiny tour are paintings from the eighteenth century by Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley; from the nineteenth century by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and F. Childe Hassam; and from the early twentieth century by John Sloan, Georgia O''Keeffe, Ja
Table of Contents
Introduction 6 EIGHTEENTH TO EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES 14 MID - TO LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY 32 TURN OF THE CENTURY 68 EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 94 EARLY MODERN 124 ART AT MID-CENTURY 176 LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY TO PRESENT 226 Donors' Credits 278 Index of Illustrations 282 Photograph Credits 287
