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The print edition of Seeing America is available for sale at the Gallery Store.
Director’s Foreword
Grant Holcomb
Preface
Marjorie B. Searl
Introduction
Michael Kammen
The print edition of Seeing America is available for sale at the Gallery Store. Director’s Foreword Preface Introduction |
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1 John Singleton Copley: Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, ca. 1765 Completing the story of an unfinished Boston portrait Marjorie B. Searl |
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2 Thomas Chambers: View of West Point, after 1828 “No place in the Union…exceeds West Point in beauty of location and the stirring incidents connected with its early history…” Peter Ogden Brown |
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3 Unknown American Artist: Portrait of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, before 1831 Rochester’s Audubon or Not? Peter Ogden Brown |
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4 Ammi Phillips: Old Woman with a Bible, ca. 1834 An Upstate Classic Susan Nurse |
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5 Milton W. Hopkins: Pierrepont Edward Lacey and His Dog, Gun, 1835–36 A Boy and His Dog, Shortsville, New York Jacquelyn Oak |
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6 George Harvey: Pittsford on the Erie Canal—A Sultry Calm, 1837 “Rambling uncontrolled in search of the picturesque” Marjorie B. Searl |
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7 Asahel Lynde Powers: Portrait of a Dark-haired Man Reading the “Genesee Farmer,” ca. 1839 “Who has not heard of the Genesee country?” Jessica Marten |
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8 DeWitt Clinton Boutelle: The Indian Hunter, 1846 “Why does the white man follow my path?...” Marlene Hamann-Whitmore |
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9 Thomas Cole: Genesee Scenery, ca. 1846–47 A jewel of a waterfall, Letchworth State Park Marlene Hamann-Whitmore |
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10 Lilly Martin Spencer : Peeling Onions, ca. 1852 Domestic life in old New York Elizabeth L. O’Leary |
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11 George Catlin: Shooting Flamingoes, 1857 On the trail of pink flamingoes in South America Peter Ogden Brown |
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12 Rubens Peale: Still Life Number 26: Silver Basket of Fruit, 1857–58 A fruitful arrangement in Pennsylvania Susan Nurse |
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13 John Frederick Kensett: A Showery Day, Lake George, ca.1860s “Where green hills swept boldly down to the water’s edge…” Caroline M. Welsh |
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14 Leonard Wells Volk: Life Mask and Hands of Abraham Lincoln, 1860/1886 “There is the animal himself.” Grant Holcomb |
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15 Asher B. Durand: Genesee Oaks, 1860 “One shade tree to every two acres…” Marlene Hamann-Whitmore |
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16 Martin Johnson Heade: Newbury Hayfield at Sunset, 1862 “Nowhere is there greater beauty than in their curving creeks and irregular pools…” Marjorie B. Searl |
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17 David Gilmour Blythe: Trial Scene (Molly Maguires), ca. 1862–63 Tarred and feathered in coal mining country Kerry Anne Morgan |
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18 James Henry Beard: The Night Before the Battle, 1865 The Civil War…a poignant scene Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss |
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19 Albert Bierstadt: The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California, 1865 California, the Promised Land Diane P. Fischer |
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20 Mortimer Smith: Home Late, 1866 Evening in a frontier cabin Kerry Schauber |
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21 Thomas Ridgeway Gould: The West Wind, 1876 “...the light foot she sets on the shore of an untamed continent” Cynthia L. Culbert |
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22 Daniel Chester French: Bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1879 “The essential image of the Concord philosopher…” Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss |
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23 John Haberle: Torn in Transit,1888–89 John Frederick Peto: Articles Hung on a Door, after 1890 Illusion and the stuff of daily life Marjorie B. Searl |
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24 Frederick MacMonnies: Nathan Hale, 1890 “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” Christopher Clarke |
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25 Winslow Homer: Paddling at Dusk, 1892 Evening in the Adirondacks David Tatham |
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26 George Inness: Early Moonrise in Florida, 1893 Mystical view of Tarpon Springs, Florida David Bjelajac |
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27 Winslow Homer: The Artist’s Studio in an Afternoon Fog, 1894 A retreat at Prout’s Neck, Maine David Tatham |
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28 Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Charles Cotesworth Beaman, 1894; Hettie Sherman Evarts Beaman, 1900 Patronage in Cornish, New Hampshire Henry J. Duffy |
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29 Frederic Remington: The Broncho Buster, 1895; The Cheyenne, 1901 Bronzes of the Wild West Brian W. Dippie |
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30 Maurice Prendergast: The Ships, ca. 1895; Woodland Bathers, 1913–15 “Flutter, luminosity and kaleidoscopic color- movement”: New England scenes Gwendolyn Owens |
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31 John Henry Twachtman: The White Bridge, late 1890s An ornament in the Connecticut landscape Susan G. Larkin |
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32 Everett Shinn: Sullivan Street, 1900–1905 A glimpse of Greenwich Village a hundred years ago Marjorie B. Searl |
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33 Thomas Eakins: William H. Macdowell, ca. 1904 Portrait of the artist’s father-in-law Elizabeth Johns |
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34 Childe Hassam: The Bathers, 1904 Arcadia in Portland, Oregon Margaret Bullock |
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35 Jerome Myers: Sunday Morning, 1907 Immigrant life on the Lower East Side Grant Holcomb |
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36 John Sloan: Election Night, 1907; Chinese Restaurant, 1909 New York night life Grant Holcomb |
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37 Colin Campbell Cooper : Main Street Bridge, Rochester, 1908 Overlooking the Genesee River in downtown Rochester Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck |
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38 Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Portrait in a Brown Dress, ca. 1908 Inspired by Whistler Susan Hobbs |
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39 Kathleen McEnery Cunningham: Woman in an Ermine Collar, 1909 The New Woman Jessica Marten |
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40 Abastenia St. Leger Eberle: Windy Doorstep, 1910 “Beauty hidden behind shabby facades” Pamela W. Blanpied |
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41 Jonas Lie: Morning on the River, ca. 1911–12 The Brooklyn Bridge in winter Barbara Dayer Gallati |
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42 George Bellows: Evening Group, 1914; Autumn Brook, 1922 From Maine to Woodstock, the rural landscape Ronald Netsky |
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44 William Ordway Partridge: Memory, 1914 “His mother dedicates this building to his memory.” Marie Via |
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45 William Glackens: Beach at Blue Point, ca. 1915 Summer on Long Island Grace Seiberling |
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46 George Grey Barnard: Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1918 “…the song of democracy written by God” Grant Holcomb |
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47 Charles Burchfield: Cat-Eyed House, 1918; Springtime in the Pool, 1922; Telegraph Pole, 1935 “A blissful evocation of nature” Nancy Weekly |
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48 Harold Weston: Three Trees,Winter, 1922 A passion for painting the Adirondacks Rebecca Foster |
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49 George Luks: Boy with Dice, ca. 1923–24 City kid Bruce Weber |
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50 Mahonri M. Young: Right to the Jaw, ca. 1926 A pas-de-deux with boxing gloves Roberta K. Tarbell |
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51 Gaston Lachaise: Fountain Figure, 1927 A treasure from a Rochester garden Cynthia L. Culbert |
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52 Thomas Hart Benton: Boomtown, 1928 The culture of oil in Borger, Texas Henry Adams |
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53 John Marin: Marin Island, Small Point, Maine, 1931 “The border of the sea” Elizabeth Hutton Turner |
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54 Georgia O’Keeffe: Jawbone and Fungus,1931 Organic forms from East and West Sarah Whitaker Peters |
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55 Charles Sheeler : Ballet Mechanique, 1931 Ford Motor Company in River Rouge, Michigan Karen Haas |
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56 Stuart Davis: Landscape with Garage Lights, 1931–32 French modernism on the Gloucester docks Karen Wilkin |
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57 Alexander Calder : Untitled Mobile, 1935 An early mobile in Rochester, New York Cynthia L. Culbert |
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58 Arthur G. Dove: Cars in a Sleet Storm, 1938 Heavy weather in Geneva, New York Elizabeth Hutton Turner |
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59 Reginald Marsh: People’s Follies No. 3, 1938; Ice Cream Cones, 1938 “The earthy, the vulgar and the lowbrow…” New York scenes Kathleen Spies |
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60 Ralston Crawford: Whitestone Bridge, 1939-40 Gateway to the 1939 World’s Fair Marjorie B. Searl |
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61 Marsden Hartley: Waterfall, Morse Pond, ca. 1940 Finding a waterfall in Maine Margaret MacDougal |
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62 Douglas Warner Gorsline: Bar Scene, 1942 One for the road at Costello’s – Third Avenue and East 44th Marie Via |
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63 William Gropper : The Opposition, 1942 Senators, sleeping and filibustering in D.C. Roberta K. Tarbell |
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64 George Grosz: The Wanderer, 1943 World War II Apocalypse Nancy Norwood |
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65 Robert Gwathmey: Non-Fiction, 1943 The legacy of sharecropping Michael Kammen |
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66 Norman Rockwell: Soldier on Leave, 1944 Romantic World War II interlude Karal Ann Marling |
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67 Guy Pène du Bois: Jane, ca. 1946 Urban elegance Betsy Fahlman |
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68 Jacob Lawrence: Summer Street Scene in Harlem, 1948 Hot colors, cool customers Lowery Stokes Sims |
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69 John Koch: Interlude, 1963 Central Park West entr’acte Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss |
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70 Andy Warhol: Jackie, 1964 Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Marjorie B. Searl |
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71 Fairfield Porter: The Beginning of the Fields, 1973 Southampton idyll Joan Ludman |
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72 Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Famous Names, 1998 Native American experience clothed in contemporary aesthetic G. Peter Jemison |
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73 Lorna Simpson: Untitled (The Failure of Sylvester), 2001 Images and text: the ambiguous message of an African American artist Gretchen Sullivan Sorin |