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Hickory Museum of Art, Inc. [Published date: 1994]. Hard cover, 128 pp. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Very good in good+ dust jacket. Tan cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing, fading and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] Although American art was almost unrecognized outside of New York and Philadelphia in 1943, the North Carolina city of Hickory set out to establish a museum of American art. That is exactly what happened. In the short span of about ten years, Hickory took the lead in the Southeast as being the first city to establish a museum of American art. With the help of artists associated with the National Academy of Design in New York (established in 1826), the Hickory Museum of Art became what was called the “Southern outpost of the National Academy.” Among the artists represented in the Hickory Museum of Art collection are names such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, J. Frederick Kensett, William Merritt Chase, Worthington Whittredge, F. Ballard Williams, Eanger Irving Couse, Elliott Daingerfield, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Hobart Nichols, Albert T. Bricher, Edward Potthast, and many others. Featured in this publication are fifty full color plates representing the Hickory Museum of Art’s fifty years of service to the community. A history of the Museum, which documents the development of a unique museum and its tremendous success, is included. The Museum is located in one of Hickory’s most familiar landmarks and finest examples of neo-classical revival architecture, the old Claremont Central High School, now renovated as the Arts & Science Center of Catawba Valley...