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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
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