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American Arts Media, Inc., Kansas City, Published 1994. Wraps, 176 pp.; 28 cm; profusely illustrated in full color throughout. ISSN 0092-1327. Cover image: Maurice Brazil Prendergast, "Promenade at Nantasket" (c. 1900-1905, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Rockefeller bequest).
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial wraps with light bumping to edges and minor surface scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.This issue is the "Summer Guide to Museum Exhibitions," a national survey of American art shows opening at museums and galleries for summer 1994. Edited and published by Thomas R. Kellaway with senior editors William H. Gerdts and William I. Homer.Feature articles include: "Ominous Hush: The Thunderstorm Paintings of Martin Johnson Heade" (Shelburne Museum, Vermont); "Will Barnet: Works of Six Decades" (Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine); "A Bounty of Flowers: Masterpieces of American Floral Painting" (Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island); "Anthony Thieme" (Rockport Art Association, Massachusetts); "North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux Walcott" (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian); "Treasures of the Corcoran: 125 Years of Collecting" (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); "Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Notes" (Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona); and "The Rockefeller Collection of American Art" (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).Plus extensive regional exhibition listings covering museums and galleries from coast to coast: New England (Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut), New York State (Katonah, Buffalo, Huntington, New York City), Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, D.C.), South (Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee), Midwest (Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas), Southwest (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona), and West (California, Washington, Canada).