Description

The Wellfleet Press Edition published by arrangement with Chelsea House Educational Comm. [Published Date: 1987]. Hardcover, Two Volume set, complete, in original slipcase. Volume I includes pages 1 - 512; Vol. II 513-1021. Both volumes very good in very good dust jacket and in good+ slip case. Light scuffing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Covers. Slip case has a crack to the paper over the top corner edge and and a couple of nicks and scratches as well and light overall scuffing. Overall a nice set. Profusely illustrated. Over 820 Artists/ More than 1020 Color plates. 40,000 Auction Sales Transactions Analyzed. Biographical Essays on each artist. Glossary / bibliography/ Index. [From jacket flap] This remarkable set is both a complete panorama of American painting from its beginnings to the present, as well as a guide to collecting and pricing. In clearly delineated sections, 300 Years of American Art covers Colonial and Early Republican painting, portrait painting, still-life painting, folk art, marine art and ship portraiture, marine landscape painting, genre painting, 19th century landscape painting, paintings of the American West, Afro-American art, American painters abroad, American Impressionism, early modernism, 20th century Realism and Abstract Expressionism. As well as individual essays on each of these topics, the book contains hundreds of biographies of individual artists along with full-color reproductions of representative samples of their works. Also included are price guides for each artist and a full glossary. Truly, 300 Years of American Art is an essential reference for any serious student or collector of Americana.