Seeing America

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Director’s Foreword
Grant Holcomb

Preface
Marjorie B. Searl

Introduction
Michael Kammen

1
John Singleton Copley: Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, ca. 1765
Marjorie B. Searl

2
Thomas Chambers: View of West Point, after 1828
Peter Ogden Brown

3
Unknown American Artist: Portrait of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, before 1831
Peter Ogden Brown

4
Ammi Phillips: Old Woman with a Bible, ca. 1834
Susan Nurse

5
Milton W. Hopkins: Pierrepont Edward Lacey and His Dog, Gun, 1835–36
Jacquelyn Oak

6
George Harvey: Pittsford on the Erie Canal—A Sultry Calm, 1837
Marjorie B. Searl

7
Asahel Lynde Powers: Portrait of a Dark-haired Man Reading the “Genesee Farmer,” ca. 1839
Jessica Marten

8
DeWitt Clinton Boutelle: The Indian Hunter, 1846
Marlene Hamann-Whitmore

9
Thomas Cole: Genesee Scenery, ca. 1846–47
Marlene Hamann-Whitmore

10
Lilly Martin Spencer : Peeling Onions, ca. 1852
Elizabeth L. O’Leary

11
George Catlin: Shooting Flamingoes, 1857
Peter Ogden Brown

12
Rubens Peale: Still Life Number 26: Silver Basket of Fruit, 1857–58
Susan Nurse

13
John Frederick Kensett: A Showery Day, Lake George, ca.1860s
Caroline M. Welsh

14
Leonard Wells Volk: Life Mask and Hands of Abraham Lincoln, 1860/1886
Grant Holcomb

15
Asher B. Durand: Genesee Oaks, 1860
Marlene Hamann-Whitmore

16
Martin Johnson Heade: Newbury Hayfield at Sunset, 1862
Marjorie B. Searl

17
David Gilmour Blythe: Trial Scene (Molly Maguires), ca. 1862–63
Kerry Anne Morgan

18
James Henry Beard: The Night Before the Battle, 1865
Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss

19
Albert Bierstadt: The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California, 1865
Diane P. Fischer

20
Mortimer Smith: Home Late, 1866
Kerry Schauber

21
Thomas Ridgeway Gould: The West Wind, 1876
Cynthia L. Culbert

22
Daniel Chester French: Bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1879
Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss

23
John Haberle: Torn in Transit,1888–89 John Frederick Peto: Articles Hung on a Door, after 1890
Marjorie B. Searl

24
Frederick MacMonnies: Nathan Hale, 1890
Christopher Clarke

25
Winslow Homer: Paddling at Dusk, 1892
David Tatham

26
George Inness: Early Moonrise in Florida, 1893
David Bjelajac

27
Winslow Homer: The Artist’s Studio in an Afternoon Fog, 1894
David Tatham

28
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Charles Cotesworth Beaman, 1894; Hettie Sherman Evarts Beaman, 1900
Henry J. Duffy

29
Frederic Remington: The Broncho Buster, 1895; The Cheyenne, 1901
Brian W. Dippie

30
Maurice Prendergast: The Ships, ca. 1895; Woodland Bathers, 1913–15
Gwendolyn Owens

31
John Henry Twachtman: The White Bridge, late 1890s
Susan G. Larkin

32
Everett Shinn: Sullivan Street, 1900–1905
Marjorie B. Searl

33
Thomas Eakins: William H. Macdowell, ca. 1904
Elizabeth Johns

34
Childe Hassam: The Bathers, 1904
Margaret Bullock

35
Jerome Myers: Sunday Morning, 1907
Grant Holcomb

36
John Sloan: Election Night, 1907; Chinese Restaurant, 1909
Grant Holcomb

37
Colin Campbell Cooper : Main Street Bridge, Rochester, 1908
Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck

38
Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Portrait in a Brown Dress, ca. 1908
Susan Hobbs

39
Kathleen McEnery Cunningham: Woman in an Ermine Collar, 1909
Jessica Marten

40
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle: Windy Doorstep, 1910
Pamela W. Blanpied

41
Jonas Lie: Morning on the River, ca. 1911–12
Barbara Dayer Gallati

42
George Bellows: Evening Group, 1914; Autumn Brook, 1922
Ronald Netsky

43
Ernest Lawson: The Garden, 1914
Deirdre F. Cunningham

44
William Ordway Partridge: Memory, 1914
Marie Via

45
William Glackens: Beach at Blue Point, ca. 1915
Grace Seiberling

46
George Grey Barnard: Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1918
Grant Holcomb

47
Charles Burchfield: Cat-Eyed House, 1918; Springtime in the Pool, 1922; Telegraph Pole, 1935
Nancy Weekly

48
Harold Weston: Three Trees,Winter, 1922
Rebecca Foster

49
George Luks: Boy with Dice, ca. 1923–24
Bruce Weber

50
Mahonri M. Young: Right to the Jaw, ca. 1926
Roberta K. Tarbell

51
Gaston Lachaise: Fountain Figure, 1927
Cynthia L. Culbert

52
Thomas Hart Benton: Boomtown, 1928
Henry Adams

53
John Marin: Marin Island, Small Point, Maine, 1931
Elizabeth Hutton Turner

54
Georgia O’Keeffe: Jawbone and Fungus,1931
Sarah Whitaker Peters

55
Charles Sheeler : Ballet Mechanique, 1931
Karen Haas

56
Stuart Davis: Landscape with Garage Lights, 1931–32
Karen Wilkin

57
Alexander Calder : Untitled Mobile, 1935
Cynthia L. Culbert

58
Arthur G. Dove: Cars in a Sleet Storm, 1938
Elizabeth Hutton Turner

59
Reginald Marsh: People’s Follies No. 3, 1938; Ice Cream Cones, 1938
Kathleen Spies

60
Ralston Crawford: Whitestone Bridge, 1939-40
Marjorie B. Searl

61
Marsden Hartley: Waterfall, Morse Pond, ca. 1940
Margaret MacDougal

62
Douglas Warner Gorsline: Bar Scene, 1942
Marie Via

63
William Gropper : The Opposition, 1942
Roberta K. Tarbell

64
George Grosz: The Wanderer, 1943
Nancy Norwood

65
Robert Gwathmey: Non-Fiction, 1943
Michael Kammen

66
Norman Rockwell: Soldier on Leave, 1944
Karal Ann Marling

67
Guy Pène du Bois: Jane, ca. 1946
Betsy Fahlman

68
Jacob Lawrence: Summer Street Scene in Harlem, 1948
Lowery Stokes Sims

69
John Koch: Interlude, 1963
Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss

70
Andy Warhol: Jackie, 1964
Marjorie B. Searl

71
Fairfield Porter: The Beginning of the Fields, 1973
Joan Ludman

72
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Famous Names, 1998
G. Peter Jemison

73
Lorna Simpson: Untitled (The Failure of Sylvester), 2001
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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