A brush with history
paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
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Contributions
- Carr, Carolyn Kinder - Contributor
- Miles, Ellen Gross, 1941- - Contributor
- Christman, Margaret C. S - Contributor
Publication
2001 - The Gallery, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebrushwithhistory0000nati
- ISBN-101584650796
- ISBN-10158465080X
- ISBN-139781584650799
- ISBN-139781584650805
and 7 more
- Goodreads1218196
- LibraryThing1999968
- Library of Congress Control Number00055453
- OCLC Control Number47637519
- Better World Books9781584650805
- Better World Books9781584650799
- Open LibraryOL17009904M
Classifications
- LCCND1311 .N35 2001
- LCCND1311.N35 2001
Description
"Portraiture is a unique genre that is common ground both for American art history and for history told through the biographies of the people who shaped it. Offering 78 wide-ranging examples from the incomparable National Portrait Gallery's collection, A Brush with History showcases the American portrait tradition from the country's beginnings to the present. The book contains essays by the museum's Deputy Director Carolyn Kinder Carr and by Curator of Painting and Sculpture Ellen G. Miles. The full-page color portraits display such works as John Singleton Copley's Self-Portrait, Henry Inman's Sequoyah, Edgar Degas's Mary Cassatt, and Thomas Hart Benton's Self-Portrait with Rita. This handsomely designed volume also includes a foreword by Alan Fern, Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, and an essay by the Gallery's Research Historian Margaret Christman on the history of the National Portrait Gallery."--BOOK JACKET.
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