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Winslow Homer
Crosscurrents
by Stephanie L. Herdrich, Sylvia Yount, Daniel Immerwahr, Christopher Riopelle, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2022 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-747-8, ISBN: 1-58839-747-5

"The book also includes Homer's depictions of rural life and the sea, in which he grapples with the violence of nature, as well as his Civil War and Reconstruction paintings of the 1860s and 1870s, which explore the unresolved effects of the ..."






Private Passion, Public Promise(Illustrated)
The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art
by Sylvia Yount, Alex Nyerges
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
ISBN-13: 978-0-917046-95-7, ISBN: 0-917046-95-1

""We have spent the last decade immersed in the world of American art, never suspecting early on that our desire to learn and appreciate this legacy could result in so meaningful a commitment to Virginia."--James W. McGlothlinPrivate Passion, Public Promise: The James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Collection of American Art commemorates the McGlothlins' plan to bequeath their splendid collection of American art to the Virginia Museum of F ..."






Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966(1st Edition)
by Sylvia Yount, Maxfield Parrish, Mark F. Bocknath
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1999 by Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine
ISBN-13: 978-0-943836-19-5, ISBN: 0-943836-19-0

"Maxfield Parrish, the prodigiously gifted, turn-of-the-20th-century illustrator famous for his limpid blue landscapes and dreamy pubescent models draped in gossamer threads, has rolled in and out of artistic favor for nearly a century. In 1964, critic Lawrence Alloway wrote about Parrish's odd place in the history of American art: "He was the most popular artist the country ever produced, with prints in a quarter of all American homes a ..."






American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts(1st Edition)
by Sylvia Yount, Susan Jensen Rawles, David Park Curry, Elizabeth L. O'leary, Dr Elizabeth O'leary, Dr Elizabeth O. Leary
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts / University Of Virginia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-917046-94-0, ISBN: 0-917046-94-3

"To date, no publication has represented the full scope of the American art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. With the publication of "American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", readers will be captivated by in-depth, scholarly essays and images highlighting selected works by such outstanding artists as John James Audubon, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, ..."






Cecilia Beaux(1st Edition)
American Figure Painter
by Sylvia Yount, Nina Auerbach, Mark Bockrath, Kevin Sharp, Alison Bechtel Wexler, Cecilia Beaux
Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25318-6, ISBN: 0-520-25318-3

"At the turn of the twentieth century, the celebrated American artist William Merritt Chase named Cecilia Beaux "not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived." While Beaux--unlike her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt--has not fared well in modernist-driven art history, her work has become the subject of renewed interest on the part of art historians, collectors, and general viewers on bo ..."






Central to Their Lives
Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection (Non Series)
by Lynne Blackman, Sylvia Yount
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of South Carolina Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-954-5, ISBN: 1-61117-954-8

"Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gend ..."






Maxfield Parrish(1st Edition)
1870-1966
by Sylvia Yount, Maxfield Parrish
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1999 by Harry N Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-4367-4, ISBN: 0-8109-4367-0

"Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and other institutions, June 19,1999-August 6, 2000. An extensive look at the life and career of Maxfield Parrish, with an essay by Mark F. Bockrath on the physical construction of the artist's paintings and his unique techniques. "A reexamination of one of the most unique, compelling, and problematic figures in the history of American art." With 132 illustrati ..."






Brett Bigbee
Recent Work
by Sylvia Yount, Brett Bigbee
Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by Tibor De Nagy Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-891123-06-1, ISBN: 1-891123-06-8






To Be Modern
American Encounters With Cezanne and Company
by Sylvia Yount, Elizabeth Johns, Johns Yount, Curator Yount, None Stated
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1996 by Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-943836-18-8, ISBN: 0-943836-18-2

"See Doreen Bolger, "The Education of the American Artist," in In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 [Philadelphia: ..."






After Whistler
The Artist and His Influence on American Painting
by Linda Merrill, James Mcneill Whistler, Robyn Asleson, Sylvia Yount, Marc Simpson, John Siewert, Lee Glazer, Lacey Taylor Jordan, Mark Simpson, Et. Al.
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2003 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10125-6, ISBN: 0-300-10125-2

"James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) left the United States for Europe at the age of twenty-one, never to return, and his style developed independently of American art currents. Nonetheless, he left an indelible mark on the art of his native land, for his modernist aesthetic influenced the work of a generation of American painters. This beautifully illustrated book-published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death-addresses Whi ..."






To Be Modern
American Encounters with Cezanne and Company
by Sylvia Yount
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3364-3, ISBN: 0-8122-3364-6






Maxfield Parrish(Updated)
1870-1966
by Sylvia Yount
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-8229-1, ISBN: 0-8109-8229-3

"Maxfield Parrish, the prodigiously gifted, turn-of-the-20th-century illustrator famous for his limpid blue landscapes and dreamy pubescent models draped in gossamer threads, has rolled in and out of artistic favor for nearly a century. In 1964, critic Lawrence Alloway wrote about Parrish's odd place in the history of American art: "He was the most popular artist the country ever produced, with prints in a quarter of all American homes a ..."






Bo Bartlett(1st Edition)
by Sylvia Yount, Al Harris-Fernandez, Bo Bartlett, Contributor-Suzi Gablik, Contributor-Charles Butler, Charles T. Butler
Hardcover, 104 Pages, Published 2003 by Marquand Books, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-882650-15-6, ISBN: 1-882650-15-8

"A midcareer figurative painter with a distinctive and haunting narrative vision, Bo Bartlett composes large-scale contemporary portraits and landscapes that combine the memories and impressions of his upbringing, his faith, his family, and his friends. Presenting iconic American subjects subtly underlined with open-ended questions, Bartlett implies that there is a chance for magic and wonder in everyday life. In paintings titled Old Glo ..."






Cecilia Beaux
American Figure Painter
by Sylvia Yount, Cecilia Beaux
Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 2007 by High Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-1-932543-14-8, ISBN: 1-932543-14-7






Pennsylvania Impressionism
by Brian H. Peterson, William H. Gerdts, Sylvia Yount, Et Al.
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-3700-9, ISBN: 0-8122-3700-5

"American Impressionism was a movement deeply rooted in the American soil. Artists often spurned the cities, living and working in the numerous art colonies that sprang up throughout the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of the best known of these colonies formed in 1898 on the banks of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia, centered in the picturesque village of New Hope, Bucks County. Known as the Pen ..."






Thomas Hovenden American Painter of Hearth and Homeland
by Anne Gregory Terhune, Sylvia Yount, William R. Valerio, Naurice Frank Woods, Gretchen Dykstra, Thomas Hovenden, Woodmere Art Museum
Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1995 by Woodmere Art Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-888008-00-5, ISBN: 1-888008-00-8

"A catalog of the 1995 Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, exhibition of works by Thomas Hovenden, with essays by the authors. Color and black and white illustrations."






Art of Native America
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
by Gaylord Torrence, Sylvia Yount, Ned Blackhawk
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2018 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-662-4, ISBN: 1-58839-662-2

"A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and daily life of numerous North American tribes, including Acoma, Ap ..."






Jacob Lawrence
The American Struggle
by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, Andrea Douglas, Kevin Jennings, Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre, Rachel Allen, Elgin Cleckley, Bethany Collins, Spencer Crew, Philip J. Deloria, Leslie King Hammond, David C. Driskell, Barbara Earl Thomas, Walter O. Evans, Kimberli Gant, Elyse Gerstenecker, Erin C. Golightly, Lydia Gordon, Kerri Greenidge, Randall Griffey, Patricia Hills, Hank Willis Thomas, Erich Kessel, Steve Locke, Deborah Mcdowell, Masud Olufani, Harvey Ross, Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Elsa Smithgall, Salamishah Tillet, Monique Verdin, Chloe Downe Wells, Tamir Williams, Sylvia Yount, Jacob Lawrence
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Washington Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87577-237-0, ISBN: 0-87577-237-4

"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."






Metropolitan Museum Journal Ser.(First Edition)
Metropolitan Museum Journal 2020 : Volume 55
by Niv Allon, Sarah Graff, Melanie Holcomb, Dorothy Mahon, Mark Mcdonald, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Sylvia Yount
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Chicago Press Journals
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75393-5, ISBN: 0-226-75393-X






Jacob Lawrence(Illustrated)
The American Struggle
by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, Andrea Douglas, Kevin Jennings, Derrick Adams, Sandy Alexandre, Rachel Allen, Elgin Cleckley, Bethany Collins, Spencer Crew, Philip J. Deloria, Leslie King Hammond, David C. Driskell, Barbara Earl Thomas, Walter O. Evans, Kimberli Gant, Elyse Gerstenecker, Erin C. Golightly, Lydia Gordon, Kerri Greenidge, Randall Griffey, Patricia Hills, Hank Willis Thomas, Erich Kessel, Steve Locke, Deborah Mcdowell, Masud Olufani, Harvey Ross, Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Elsa Smithgall, Salamishah Tillet, Monique Verdin, Chloe Downe Wells, Tamir Williams, Sylvia Yount, Jacob Lawrence
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Washington Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74704-0, ISBN: 0-295-74704-8

"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."



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